It is not meet that warriors strain their thews in dragging stones across the sands, nor in digging earth wherewith to build a mountain on a plain.
The King, in sitting much upon his tower while Nineveh was being builded, had laid a deal of fat upon his bones, and tedious travel irked him; moreover, in the hunt his breath was shorter than of yore and his thews less strong.
His thews were slack; he lay as helpless as an unweaned babe, yet the victor's eyes were laughing down into his own, and were kind.
The Arab was lean and wiry to the litheness of a cat, with corded thews that lay in knots upon his dusky skin.
At length the race, now grown By constant wrestle into thews of power, Moved calm with strength beneath the Tudor's sway.
He was a man of thews and goodly frame Made swart in battle.
Other instruments have they also for finding a true position on the ocean wastes, for the newer mariner, when he is at sea, puts little trust in the Gods, and confides mightily in his own thews and wits.
It was in a one-sided conflict after this fashion then, that I found myself, and felt the joy once more to have mythews in action.
With exquisite cruelty I had been forced with my own hands to place her alive in her burying-place beneath the granite throne, and if thews and speed could do it, I would not miss my reward of taking her forth again with the same strong hands.
Finally, when they reached a rocky "barren," where the little fire had found no fuel, she felt his tautened thews relax.
But now his muscles, closing round her, seemed like thews of steel.
The trained muscles of the lowland athlete were matched against the lithe thews of the mountaineer so evenly that, for a time, there was doubt of what the outcome might be.
As the leathern cestus binds Tense the boxer's knotted hands; So the strong wine round him winds, Binds his thewsto iron bands.
Still with thewsof iron bound, Vastly the Achean rose, Godward from the brazen ground, High before his Spartan foes.
When the three bull ourang outangs closed upon Bulan he felt no fear as to the outcome of the battle, for never in his experience had he coped with any muscles that his own mighty thews could not overcome.
All round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to.
Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory.
Look in the face of men who fare Lock-mouthed, a match in lungs and thews For this fierce angel of the air, To twist with him and take his bruise.
XIX Hard the task: your prison-chamber Widens not for lifted latch Till the giant thews and sinews Meet their Godlike overmatch.
He had the thews of a gladiator, and in his Guernsey stockings stood six feet two inches.
Human flesh is the food most craved by the fierce Barsoomian lion, whose great carcass and giant thews require enormous quantities of meat to sustain them.
I know that none can meet me man to man And quell in fight--of earth-born heroes none, Though such an one should bear within his breast A heart unquailing, and have thews of brass.
They put their hearts and thews to the toil, for it was recognised that its completion not only solved the transport problem, but was a swift and sure means of return to Egypt.
There was pride of countless triumphs, and the long enjoyment of despotic lordship that hardened their wills and thews to win victory or perish.
The thews of the sire had been transmitted to the son--it needed only the hardening of use to develop them.
Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber Sunlit pallets never thrive; Morns abed and daylight slumber Were not meant for man alive.
Not as an ordinary mortal might strike a blow did Tarzan of the Apes strike; but with the maddened frenzy of a wild beast backed by the steel thews which his wild, arboreal boyhood had bequeathed him.
Oh, for such a heart, with the thews and sinews of a truly English brain!
My live thews were of great strength, Now am I waxen a span's length; My live sides were full of lust, Now are they dried with dust.
Their moan is in every place, the cry of them filleth the land: There is shame in the sight of their face, there is fear in the thews of their hand.
For air will be a body, be alive, If in that air the soul can keep itself, And in that air enclose those motions all Which in the thews and in the body itself A while ago 'twas making.
Night and day, Recurrent spasms of vomiting would rack Alway their thews and members, breaking down With sheer exhaustion men already spent.
And whoso had survived that virulent flow Of the vile blood, yet into thews of him And into his joints and very genitals Would pass the old disease.
Thus nature of mind cannot arise alone Without the body, nor exist afar From thews and blood.
If the dire speed of spear that cleaves the bones And bares the inner thews hits not the life, Yet follows a fainting and a foul collapse, And, on the ground, dazed tumult in the mind, And whiles a wavering will to rise afoot.
Thus nature of mind cannot arise alone Without the body, nor have its being far From thews and blood.
Make friends with two or more athletes, thorough good fellows, good-natured, delighting in their thews and sinews.
We want a man of thews and sinews, a man who would rather be hit on the head with a half-brick than not.
For all his thews and sinews there was poetry in John, and the sight had stirred him like wine.
Truly you have thews and sinews enough, though you are surely too young to have seen much service.
You have thethews of an ox and the heart of a woman, 'muttered my companion.
What would not your thews have been worth before gunpowder put all men upon a level!
The average height of the men is said to be five feet ten inches, but some of them are over six feet with the thews and sinews of a Hercules.
Once when a Maori of Herculean thews and sinews was inadvertently shown some green lizards preserved in a bottle of spirits, his massive frame shrank back as from a mortal wound, and his face betrayed signs of extreme horror.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thews" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: beef; brawn; elasticity; muscle; muscularity; musculature; physique; sinew; thews; tone
