How To Use Whipcord In A Sentence
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'The Colonel's in an unco kippage,' said Mrs. Flockhart to Evan as he descended; 'I wish he may be weel, -- the very veins on his brent brow are swelled like whipcord; wad he no tak something?'
Waverley — Volume 2
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His muscular neck indicated that his body would have the same whipcord tautness of his face.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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The lash, however, was curled upon itself and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord.
Sole Music
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Her eyes were a gray even stonier than her hair, and, under the green silk shirt, the brushed gray leather trousers and vest, she seemed whipcord-thin.
The Death of Chaos
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_Hey ding a ding_, _Bony lass upon a green_, _My bony on gave me a bek_, _By a bank az I lay_; and _two more_ he hath fair wrapt up in parchment, and bound with a whipcord!
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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The wealthy financier was well known in upper crust social circles, and generally thought something of a fop, but his steely gaze and his whipcord muscles flexing like steel bands beneath the dark fabric of his suit would brook no delay.
Free Excerpt 4/5: Book of Secrets by Chris Roberson
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He wore blue jerseys, and blue shirts which her mother called Aertex, and tweed ties and whipcord trousers.
William Trevor | An Idyll in Winter
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The feet and thighs were those of a muscular man: the legs rather too curved and calfless, though I have seen Negroes who had scarcely better ones; the tendons of the hands stood out like whipcords; the nails were as long as a tiger's claws.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
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The sight of the safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to finally dispel any doubts which may have remained.
Sole Music
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Branches numerous, flexuous, with small branchlets or joints springing from the ends in clusters, smooth, round, the thickness of whipcord, leafless, with numerous brown, dot-like marks scattered over the surface; under a lens these dots are seen to be tufts of very fine hairs.
Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
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He was perhaps six feet tall, with a whipcord leanness to his body and a thin, narrow face in which the eyes gleamed watchfully.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck.
Sole Music
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People keep telling me I'm a large, hairy, bearlike person, but deep inside I'm whipcord-thin Eurotrash in a pastel linen jacket and designer shades.
The Green Leopard and Other Plagues
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'The Colonel's in an unco kippage,' said Mrs. Flockhart to Evan, as he descended; 'I wish he may be weel, -- the very veins on his brent brow are swelled like whipcord: wad he no tak something?'
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
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(Somehow one always watches that tiny head, and its yoke of yellow around the neck, all lifted marginally above the water's surface, and miss the whipcord of black-banded green that lashes behind.)
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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It shares the grasp the spongy moss may take on the slippery surface, or when the root, thin as whipcord, of a certain fig-tree has crept across the face of the grey rock forming a ridge or barricade against which decayed vegetation accumulates, there the BAEA flourishes, displaying an indeterminate line of mauve flowers above oval, crimpled leaves.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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‘The Colonel’s in an unco kippage,’ said Mrs. Flockhart to Evan as he descended; ‘I wish he may be weel, — the very veins on his brent brow are swelled like whipcord; wad he no tak something?’
Waverley
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Her slender body carried no fat, each muscle defined and as hard as whipcord.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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The Enforcement detective had no Psy abilities, and unlike the butcher sitting across from her, his body was whipcord lean.
Archive 2009-11-01
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His smallest muscle stands out hard and firm like whipcord, says an English painter.
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It is no wonder that Ritson, in the historical essay prefixed to his collection of _Scottish Songs_, should speak of some of these ballads with a zest as if he would have sacrificed half his library to untie the said "whipcord" packet.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
