1 Beside him lay a little child, with her round white arms encircling his brown sinewy neck, and her golden haired head resting upon the breast of his velveteen tunic.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 2 At the same moment a sinewy brown hand caught the frightened horse by the curb, and forcing a way through the drove, soon brought her to the outskirts.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH 3 His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY 4 Again I gripped him by the sleeve, and felt the thin, sinewy arm beneath it.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 5 One was tall and thin, the other dark, shaggy, and sinewy, with a flat nose.
6 His sleeves were rolled up and his sinewy, hairy, red hands with their short fingers deftly turned the ramrod.
7 Joseph was an elderly, nay, an old man: very old, perhaps, though hale and sinewy.
8 It is with him I must struggle all through this night till day come, till he or I lie dead, gripping him by the sinewy throat till.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 9 A chosen company issue from the gates while the morning star is high; they pour forth with meshed nets, toils, broad-headed hunting spears, Massylian horsemen and sinewy sleuth-hounds.