1
The shrill voices, fine as whipcord and sharp as needles, tortured him.
2
He works out three times a week and looks as fit as whipcord.
3
Tears started from his burning eyes and his brow was knotted hard as whipcord.
4
The colonel's voice came sharp as whipcord.
5
He had visualized that trim body as whipcord and steel; but in fact it was flesh, firm, resilient, and surprisingly soft.
6
He is either a foreigner or has lived long in the tropics, for he is yellow and sapless, but tough as whipcord.
7
Her strength showed mainly in her small wrists which were as strong as whipcord: she could always open a screw-jar which foxed me.
8
Aerial roots, thin as whipcord, hung from the branches of trees crowding on the brink of the ravine, and with tasselled terminals sopped up moisture.
9
My flesh is as stringy as whipcords, and as bitter and mean as the bite of a rattlesnake.