She washed his limbs; they were covered with thick hair; and when she dried his hands, even in his weakness they were strong and sinewy . Sinewy fingers completed the work the choking noose had commenced. She saw the sinewy form leap to the shoulder of the lion, hurtling against the leaping beast like a huge, animate battering ram. There were at least thirty of them about, sinewy , powerful men. When I got back with the basin, the doctor had already ripped up the captain's sleeve and exposed his great sinewy arm.