Meanings of as whipcord in English

The shrill voices, fine as whipcord and sharp as needles, tortured him.

He works out three times a week and looks as fit as whipcord.

Tears started from his burning eyes and his brow was knotted hard as whipcord.

The colonel's voice came sharp as whipcord.

He had visualized that trim body as whipcord and steel; but in fact it was flesh, firm, resilient, and surprisingly soft.

He is either a foreigner or has lived long in the tropics, for he is yellow and sapless, but tough as whipcord.

Her strength showed mainly in her small wrists which were as strong as whipcord: she could always open a screw-jar which foxed me.

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.

My flesh is as stringy as whipcords, and as bitter and mean as the bite of a rattlesnake.