(1) Brains and brawn, thought and thew

(2) I trust his thew and his brother's wit.

(3) Then I realized that any of the the various small stories of treachery and betrayal I had encountered could form the thews and sinews of a mystery novel.

(4) The thug strove furiously to clamp his meaty paws around the lighter man's neck, but the deceptive strength of the other's rangy thews held him at bay.

(5) With her sinewy shanks and thewy thighs, the new nurse in Pine Valley Hospital on ABC's daytime soaper All My Children could easily be a professional athlete.

(6) Ham gives the bird to his father and then plays on his harp, which is ‘made of the thews of rams’.

(7) She stood close to seven feet tall, and if she was built on slimmer lines, without her male siblings' massive thews , she was also faster.

(8) Renny's claws were embedded in the wiry thews of the jaguar's forearms, streams of blackish blood spilling down his hands as he fought to shred the tendons crushing the life from him.