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Definition of Sinews
1. sinew [v] - See also: sinew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinews
Literary usage of Sinews
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1857)
"REMEDIES FOE DISEASES OF THE sinews. The exterior callosity with which the flesh
of purples is covered, beaten up, unites the sinews ..."
2. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Taken from a View of the Moral Education by Thomas Clarkson (1807)
"... both of those of tragedy and of comedy—These contents hold out false morals
and prospects, and weaken the sinews of morality—Observations of Lord Kaimes ..."
3. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... and by that means affording to our inveterate enemies the very sinews of such
warlike operations as they may think proper to plan against us. ..."
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