Sinew
A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.
Muscle; nerve.
Fig.: That which supplies strength or power.
To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.
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Sinew Quotations
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Andrew Jackson
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
Rudyard Kipling
At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
David Cameron
For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
Countee Cullen
When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
Patricia Neal
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
Ingmar Bergman
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Sinew Translations
sinew in French is tendon
sinew in German is Sehne
sinew in Swedish is sena
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