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cultures in the
Great Basin region.
These bow
staves are
typically backed with
sinew to
provide tension strength that the wood may lack.
Ancient Mesopotamians...
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winter - he
often found woe Once
Nithad laid
restraints on him,
supple sinew-bonds on the
better man. That went by; so can this. - To Beadohilde, her...
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being saw that he did not
overpower Jacob, he
touched Jacob on the
sinew of his
thigh (the gid hanasheh, גיד הנשה), and, as a result,
Jacob developed...
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limped from the
injury to his thigh.
Because of this, Jews do not eat the
sinew of the vein that is the
hollow of the
thigh because the man
touched the...
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shaking and
trembling all the while. This is not
because the gibbon's
sinews and
bones have
become stiff and lost
their suppleness, but
because it finds...
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altered their appearance with
cranial deformation.
Cordage was spun from
sinew, hide, and
fibrous plants.
During the last few
centuries of the
Adena zenith...
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sucking infant lives to die in battle; the
weeping mother feeds him for the slaughter" and "the
trembling sinews of old age must work the work of
death against...