For this Robert of the Red Hand, more familiarly known as Rob MacNicol, or even as plain Rob, was an active, stout-Sinewed, black-eyed lad of seventeen, whose only mark of chieftainship apparently was that, unlike his brothers, he wore shoes and stockings; these three relatives constituted his allies and kinsmen; the so-called Spanish main was in reality an arm of the sea better known in the Hebrides as Loch Scrone; and the war-galley was an old, ramshackle, battered, and betarred boat belonging generally to the fishing-village of Erisaig; for, indeed, the boat was so old and so battered that nobody now seemed to claim any special ownership of it.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
His soul loved all mankind; and he had with it an heroic mind and a strong-Sinewed body, which refused to recognise the fact that it died daily.
"An Orkney Maid"
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
A flannel shirt, open at the throat, showed a well-Sinewed neck and powerful chest.
"The Air Trust"
George Allan England