Read full poem →Crash through caldron or wheel,
Fin of bronze or sinew of steel,
Dictionary Entry
A cord or tendon of the body.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. sinewthread sinewsinew deersinew twistedsinew animal
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Poetry examples for “sinew”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The rafters of my body, bone,
Being still with you, the muscle, sinew, and vein
Which tile this house, will come again.
Read full poem →The rafters of my body, bone
Being still with you, the Muscle, Sinew, and Veine,
Which tile this house, will come againe. 30
Read full poem →Failed to bequeath
The needful sinew stark as once,
The Baresark marrow to thy bones,
Read full poem →"Oh, our manhood's prime vigor! No spirit feels waste,
Not a muscle is stopped in its playing nor sinew unbraced. 70
Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock,
Read full poem →Too low for him. They ’71l murmur more and louder
If captives of our pith and sinew, fit
For all the work the Spaniard hates, are freed, —
Read full poem →86. _That every labouring sinew strains_. An example of the
"correspondence of sound with sense." As Pope says (_Essay on
Read full poem →This racks the joints, this fires the veins, 85
That every labouring sinew strains,
Those in the deeper vitals rage: