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Sinewed

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sin·ew  (sny)
n.
1. A tendon.
2. Vigorous strength; muscular power.
3. The source or mainstay of vitality and strength. Often used in the plural: "Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue" (Izaak Walton).
tr.v. sin·ewed, sin·ew·ing, sin·ews
To strengthen with or as if with sinews.
[Middle English sinewe, from Old English sinewe, oblique form of seonu, sinu.]
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Portraits are generally painted when the subject, is at a flood-tide of life and personality: the aureate youth of Giorgione s shepherd-boys, or the fragile and complacent grace of van Dyck's women, or the sinewed middle age of Ruben's patricians.
Winter sunlight: Rembrandt's self-portraits at the National Gallery by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review
Tanned men in brightly- coloured racing rigs flex sinewed arms to drive horses helter-skelter through the streets.
ISLE WHERE TIME GOZO SLOWLY; ..once chariot racing's over by Law, Alan / The Mirror (London, England)
Perhaps the great had lost the spirit that sinewed together the Body of Christ, but a great many of the common folk had not.
There's a great view from the pew by Burns, Robert E. / U.S. Catholic
 
 
 
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