My flesh is as stringy as whipcords, and as bitter and mean as the bite of a rattlesnake. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Dr. Snyder noted that the president was so irritated at these intrusions that “the veins stood out on his forehead like whipcords.” ❋ David A. Nichols (2011)
Instead the veins stood out like whipcords in his throat and he experienced a rush of lust the like of which had not visited him since adolescence. ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)
They burned her, and their burns chopped her brain painfully, lashed her heart like fiery whipcords. ❋ Unknown (2003)
African race. 11 The arms are thin, with muscles like whipcords, and the hands and feet are, in point of size and delicacy, a link between Europe and India. ❋ Unknown (2003)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN HE STOOD BEFORE HER, his slender elegant figure dressed impeccably in tan whipcords, a khaki shirt and a shading Panama. ❋ Delamere, Wanda (1982)
His hands, which he was compelled by the manacles to hold directly in front of him in an absurd travesty of penitential clasp, gripped each other in his consuming resentment until the tendons of his wrist stood out with the tense distinction of whipcords. ❋ Charles M. Snyder (N/A)
So loud, so long and so mighty was the blast that the veins stood out like whipcords on his brow; and even then he stopped not, but blew until his temples broke and the blood streamed down his face. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
Andrews continued so obstinate, that three whipcords were broken before she would plead. ❋ Various (N/A)
"It will take someone stronger than you," answered Peter; and he rolled up his shirt-sleeves and swung his big arms around till their muscles stood out like whipcords. ❋ Fanny E. Coe (N/A)
Whereat Pierre glanced aside under his cap to where Maren hauled up the bucket from the well, hand over hand, with the muscles slipping under her tawny skin like whipcords. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
His breath came in hot, strangling gasps, the veins in his head were swollen and stinging like whipcords, there was a dull, pounding noise in his ears, and a drumming at his heart. ❋ Isabel Hornibrook (N/A)
The feet and thighs were those of a muscular man: the legs rather too curved and calfless, though I have seen Negroes who had scarcely better ones; the tendons of the hands stood out like whipcords; the nails were as long as a tiger's claws. ❋ Various (N/A)
He turned to the men in whipcords and gray Stetsons. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)
The two men in the gray whipcords of the State police, seeing that ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)
The great veins stood out upon his temples like knotted whipcords, and when he spoke his voice was more a breathless snarl than the voice of a Christian man. ❋ Unknown (1921)
In the weird red light of the room, he could see the veins standing out like whipcords on the back of Bellward's hands. ❋ Valentine Williams (1914)
He had meant to lash her keenly with his verbal whipcords, but he had not expected to find her quite so sensitive to his cutting scorn. ❋ Charles Caldwell Dobie (1912)
The veins in his forehead stood out like whipcords. ❋ Unknown (1908)
