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Meanings of whipcord in anglès

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Usage of whipcord in anglès
1
I saw the veins in the Duke's forehead stand out like whipcord.
The Betrayal
2
His fingers had been busy tying knots in a length of whipcord.
Captain Blood
3
The shrill voices, fine as whipcord and sharp as needles, tortured him.
The Tree of Heaven
4
Covert-A twill-wovencloth sometimes with full face, sometimes sheared to imitate whipcord.
Textiles and Clothing
5
He works out three times a week and looks as fit as whipcord.
Night Shift
6
Name's Mervin; all whipcord and whalebone; springy as a bent bow.
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
7
With that whipcord-lean body he was a real man, no doubt about that.
Wrangling the redhead
8
He carried in his hand a piece of thin, strong whipcord.
At the Villa Rose
9
Everybody knows the one about the three-hundred-pound disc jockey with the whipcord-thin voice.
The stand
10
As for you, Larry, you'll die poor; you spend too much in whipcord.
Black Beauty
11
They never were, and the war has made them like whipcord.
Mr. Standfast
12
Her arms had dwindled away into nothing but whipcord and wire.
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
13
The Wing Rider shrugged, his whipcord-tough body lengthening as he stretched.
Ilse Witch
14
It weighed with poles, pegs, and whipcord guys about six pounds.
Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
15
The veins on the old man's forehead stood out like whipcord.
A Millionaire of Yesterday
16
However, the whipcord, thus set free, was used by Peterkin as a fishing-line.
The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
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