wiriness

He heaved at my arm and his adroit wiriness threw me off balance.

It must have been his wiriness.

His lithe body moved with a wiriness that belied the silver which crowned both temples.

The hand I held was much larger than Frank's, and my fingers brushed the wiriness of coarse hairs on the wrist.

He kept old sailor skills, such as carrying loads carefully, and while his body wasn't that of any Hercules, its wiriness had never flagged.

Yet his arms and neck were almost scrawny in their wiriness, seamed with jutting veins and the scars of hard living.

The red-haired man moved with a taut wiriness that had not been characteristic of Cluche Kurgill.

He was slender and lacked the overt muscular toughness displayed by Ustal or even the wiriness of some armsmen.

Mr. Grenke, whose dancing has less mass than wiriness, can impress with his convulsive solos but tends to meld into the ensemble.

Songs like "," which endorses the Zapatista rebels, marry hip-hop's thump, punk's wiriness, and heavy metal's roar.

His smallness and wiriness were his only advantages, he knew, and he wriggled as hard as an eel to slip out of the man's strong grasp.

The brightness of the eyes, wiriness of the hair, exuberance of colour, combined with forced chiaroscuro and often very inaccurate drawing, are characteristics of Andrew Plimer's work.

Calvin, with his lithe wiriness, eluded most of the blows, and tried desperately to catch Mr. Jenkins by the wrists- caught him- The wrists became talons, became nothing.

But his long, ugly teeth; the leer of his gasping lips; the clawish appearance of his hands - these, plus his wiriness, showed him to be a dangerous character.

His red hair and fair complexion, his powerful bearlike frame set him apart from the native Chrosanthians in a region where racial features leaned to dark hair and lean wiriness.

Its ravages had left noticeable marks on his features: the pale cheeks, the slight wiriness of his graying hair, the finely veined skin at his temples, the dark hollows under his eyes.

Death showed itself in her; in the sudden angularity of her limbs and the taut wiriness of her muscles; in the slackness of the flesh at neck and arm and breast.

Mr. Williams, his slim frame capable of a darting wiriness but more inclined toward a natural lyricism, moved basically across in a diagonal, but also, Horton-style, dropping to (and remaining on) the floor.

In contrast, the blind man was a reminder of times almost forgotten - long in stride and with a wiriness that spoke of many years on the sand with only his feet or a captive worm to carry him.