His fingers closed around the sinewy handle of the knife the father had shown him, and he lifted it out of the drawer. |
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His sinewy arms flailed around uselessly, his legs kicked furiously, but the ocean's grip on him only got stronger as it pulled him further down. |
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But Manda noticed she was muscular, eyeing the corded veins and sinewy muscles along her forearms. |
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Comprised of a long, sinewy pull followed by a spry frog kick, the pull-down is a holy moment of shrouded watery silence. |
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Grilled flank steak is marvelously roast-beefy, sinewy and heady with adobo spice. |
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The instructor of visual arts was in his middle forties, equipped with a sinewy body and a receding hairline. |
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Comprised of a long sinewy pull followed by a spry frog kick, the pulldown is a holy moment of shrouded watery silence. |
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Hanger steak is as good as the one in the Paris outpost, sinewy, briny, and full of brash flavor. |
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William could feel the statues pressing into his back, their sinewy shapes slithering against his skin. |
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The crowd focuses on Wesley Bunch, a tanned, sinewy mountaineer from Jackson with a massive blond afro. |
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It was described as ' sinewy ' and ' packing a punch ' by the medical writer Galen. |
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It was served like the others with rice, red and green peppers and onions, but the lamb was sinewy. |
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As the sinewy red mass ascended through clear fluid, a bizarre blob formed at the tip, broke loose, and floated upward. |
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Supporting this sinewy armor plate was a rib cage that seemed to have been designed more for a silverback gorilla than a man. |
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His thin, sinewy frame is a testimony to his inability to earn a decent wage. |
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He plunges into each situation without preamble, then utilizes sinewy, staccato prose to snare our attention. |
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Rico stretched his arms, sinewy roped muscle rippling beneath the thin, sweaty T-shirt fabric. |
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The sinewy first movement, which is the most concise in the whole of Bax's symphonic cycle, packs a powerful punch. |
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The river is brown, sinewy, convulsing like electrically stimulated muscle. |
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Inside, a sinewy, mustachioed fellow is tinkering with one of the machines. |
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The band's 1998 debut Hope Is Important was chock full of sinewy indie-punk riffs. |
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For all his seeming squatness, his movements were precise, and his hands in particular were small and sinewy. |
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This is a magnificent top, the hub of four sinewy ridges that radiate from the summit to form the apex of five huge corries. |
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A lean, lithe, grizzly looking fellow, supple, agile with a leathery skin and sinewy. |
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I mean, let's see you write three to four thousand of these monstrous stanzas, with their sinewy ababbcbcc rhyme scheme and closing alexandrine. |
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The delicate traceries of individual drawings mingle and tangle with each other, creating labyrinths of wings, teeth and sinewy limbs. |
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Drinking his orange juice he watches her flick through a Vogue, stopping to examine the androgynous, sinewy form of some teenage model. |
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Viola was a small, sinewy, speedy hurricane, spewing surprises with every contraction. |
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A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry. |
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The absence of vibrato or breathiness in the upper parts makes for gloriously sinewy singing. |
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Eagle Ridge is a muscular course, with bulging mounds and sinewy swales framing the targets at every turn. |
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With the help of two sinewy coolies next to him, he rose to his feet. |
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Charles Ray has a suite of 15 ink-on-paper paintings in an adjacent room, depicting flowers with sinewy, rainbow-colored petals. |
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As the choric figure Paulina, Zenaida Yanowsky prowls around and cajoles them with sinewy authority. |
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Most of them have artificial ponds in narrow, sinewy shapes, as centrepieces to small local parks. |
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A few pink, sinewy, thin lines represent narrow roads, probably used for logging and recreation. |
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An unusually cool dry summer with no real warmth until September, resulting in wines with lean, firm and sinewy character. |
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Edwin, 15, a wiry athlete whose sinewy legs barely fill his baggy shorts, lost his father and younger brother during the war. |
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The structure is sinewy and light but in no way loses its concentration of aromas from these wonderful grape varieties. |
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Spread it out very thinly in cookie sheets and dry at 180° overnight or until crispy and sinewy. |
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A horse-drawn carriage ride through its narrow and sinewy streets is the ideal way to fall under its charm. |
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On the contrary, in a less fertile land or on the top of a hill, the cork will be sinewy and dense. |
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First, he did his little purr thing, followed by his sinewy arch thing. |
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Playwright Edward Bond supplied sinewy dialogue, but nothing could compete with Roeg's startling images of fierce orange suns, lizards and insects, and savage terrain. |
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Cycling effortlessly between granite-hard drum excursions, creditable rapping and guitar riffage, the sinewy star seems hell-bent on vibing up the crowd. |
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The band reduces electric boogie and original punk-funk to their sinewy essences, with enough sleaze, sass and drunken merriment to power a pimpmobile. |
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His sinewy body gives him a youthful appearance belying his 56 years. |
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Notably, all aural analogues share the same sinewy, coruscant guitar work. |
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His flesh is sagging a bit, but he is still trim and looks lean, sinewy and tough. |
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Yet as the last colored leaves, varnished with the first rains of winter, fall earthward, the deciduous trees bare their sinewy musculature for all the world to look upon. |
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The same setup also delivers spirited handling dynamics, which easily facilitate a romp through the sinewy. |
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She stands strong and dignified, with her sinewy and angularly carved face turning slightly away as though just having taken another unavoidable look at a painful past. |
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In fact, rattlesnake tastes, at least when breaded and fried, like a sinewy, half-starved tilapia. |
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First, the students scrutinized layers of sinewy pink muscles layered over ivory bones. |
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The smooth trunk has a sinewy or muscular appearance and divides into slender, slightly pendulous branches. |
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With her sinewy shanks and thewy thighs, the new nurse in Pine Valley Hospital on ABC's daytime soaper All My Children could easily be a professional athlete. |
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The sinewy muscles of his arms bunched together fiercely at his shoulder. |
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Situated halfway between Montreal and Quebec City, you will find the beautiful Mauricie region. Its sinewy roads and scintillating rivers will lead you into one of nature's most scenic playgrounds. |
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Sometimes she had to pause in her snorting consumption of the pounds of kibble that kept her sinewy machine running, and once she'd had to cough back a gobbet of bagel and lox that Perkus had tossed her. |
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And that's a good thing because its difficult to resist the urge to run one's hands over the sinewy marble sculptures and intricate bronzes the Montreal sculptor produces. |
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A sinewy woman emerges, stepping out onto the gray city sidewalk. |
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He was exactly how she remembered him. Where Tyrell was cuddly and huggable, Mohammad was hard and sinewy. |
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Mr. Weber's universe — one of sinewy boys in britches, solitary athletes, preppies toting footballs, models and society dames — is free, by design, of meanness, squalor and unsightliness. |
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In his first outing as a national political figure, Mr Ryan looked like his old self: a sinewy, genial figure who charmed the crowds in a checked shirt, jeans and cowboy boots. |
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I prize in Gregerson a natural drift and shamble, but what sutures everything together is her syntax, gathered in part from the Elizabethans but as sinewy and precise as any in contemporary writing. |
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Her arms had become dark and sinewy from her labor. |
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