Read full poem →Is hours long, and the mud's a strain.
My gelding's uncommonly strong in the loins,
In half an hour I'll bag the coins.
Dictionary Entry
The part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips
Origin
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Common Phrases
. loinsgirt loinsgirded loinsloins thyloins whose
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Poetry examples for “loins”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Yet in my bosom unbroken remaineth the clue; I shall use it.
Lo, with the rope on my loins I descend through the fissure; I sink, yet
Inly secure in the strength of invisible arms up above me;
Read full poem →Put on the whole armour of Grod — having your loins girt about with truth, and having on
the breast-plate of righteousness. — Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye snail
Read full poem →There are souls who gird
Their loins in faith that the world is well,
In a faith unblurred.
Read full poem →Rhythm of backs, hollow of necks,
And sea-shell loins.
I know a woman whose splendors vex
Read full poem →None of this talk was Swinburne any more
Than some child of his loins would take his hair,
Eyes, skin, from him in some pangenesis,--
Read full poem →‘TO-DAY thou girdest up thy loins thyself,
And goest where thou wouldest: presently
Read full poem →Southern dene or Lancashire clough or Devon cleave,
That leans along the loins of hills, where a candycoloured, where
a gluegold-brown
Read full poem →lf from one God’s primal loins
All the creatures came to be,
Read full poem →Whose righteous lore the prince had practis'd young,
And from whose loins recorded Psyche sprung,
His temples last with poppies were o'er spread,