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At the close of each day's march, which but slightly wearied their toughened sinews, they could in a few moments throw up a shelter, beneath which they would enjoy more luxurious sleep than the traveler, after being rocked in the rail-cars, can now find on the softest couches of our metropolitan hotels.
Why hadn't he taken Coincon by the neck then and there with his long strong fingers and strangled him? Coincon would have had the chance of a rabbit. He had the strength of a dozen Coincons he, trained to perfection, with muscle like dried bull's sinews. He could split an apple between arm and forearm, in the hollow of his elbow. Why shouldn't he go back and break Coincon's neck?
Indeed, I lent Charley the sinews of war in the shape of a blank check, which I see this morning he has filled up for a thousand just like his modesty. Well, I hope they'll amuse themselves! Bruce has never been near me.
"I think he is half mad with sorrow." She paused and laid her hand on Gilbert's. "His wife is dead, your mother is dead, with the child she bore him." Gilbert's eyes alone changed, but under her palm Beatrix felt the sinews of his hand leap and the veins swell. "Tell me quickly," he said. "She was burned," continued Beatrix, in a tone of awe.
With this with this " but here his rage rendered him inarticulate; he stammered and stuttered for a minute, and then as the killing fury settled on him his yellow teeth shut with a sudden snap, while through them his breath rattled like wind through dead pine branches in December, the sinews sat up on his hands as his fingers tightened upon the axe-heft like the roots of the same pines from the ground when winter rain has washed the soil from beneath them; his small eyes gleamed like baleful planets; every hair upon his shaggy back grew stiff and erect another minute and my span were ended.
"The Bible is the Word of God, and the Prayer-book teaches us how to pray to him." "But who is God? I have often heard you say, 'O God! and 'God damn' but who is he?" "I will tell you to-night before we go to sleep," replied Jackson, gravely. "Very well, I shall remind you. I have found a little box inside the chest, and it is full of all manner of little things strings and sinews."
In modern warfare also, money is called 'the sinews of war'. Atavivala or the force consisting of foresters, was, perhaps, the body of Irregulars that supported a regular army of combatants. Bhritavala implies the regular army, drawing pay from the state at all times. In India, standing armies have existed from remote times.
"As fagots are brought from the forest, Firmly held by the sinews which bind them, I will cleave to my Camp Fire sisters Wherever, whenever I find them. "I will strive to grow strong like the pine tree, To be pure in my deepest desire; To be true to the truth that is in me And follow the Law of the Fire." Then she offered each one of the French girls a silver ring.
When Lady Brassey gives the lad and his mother some strings of blue, red, and green glass beads, they laugh and jabber most enthusiastically. Their paddles are "split branches of trees, with wider pieces tied on at one end, with the sinews of birds or beasts." At the various places where they land, all go armed, Lady Brassey herself being well skilled in their use.
And graceful and artistic was the attitude he assumed, the head slightly inclined, the feet firmly planted, the left a little in advance, and the stretched sinews of the bow-hand alone evincing that into that grasp was pressed the whole strength of the easy and careless frame.
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