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Brawniness Atlas, Charles (1893–1972) American muscleman; successful selling body-building by mail order. [Am. Culture: Misc.] brawny, strapping miner who saves others in mine collapse. [Am. Music: Jimmy Dean, “Big Bad John”] big Yorkshireman. [Br. Lit.: Nicholas Nickleby] lumberjack performs mighty deeds. [Am. Folklore: The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan] gigantic, sinewy Philistine killed by David’s slingshot. [O.T.: I Samuel 17; 21:9, 22:10; II Samuel 21:19] huge, raging, green-skinned strongman into which Dr. Banner is transformed. [Comics: Horn, 324–325] brawn his chief asset; accompanied with little brains. [Am. Lit.: McTeague] sailor who owes his incredible muscle-power to a diet of canned spinach. [Comics: Horn, 658] muscular English lord, reared by African apes, hero of novels and films. [Am. Lit.: Tarzan of the Apes (1914); Am. Cinema: Rovin, 105–106] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And whatever they may reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embodied; these pictures, so destitute as they are of all brawniness, hint nothing of any power, but the mere negative, feminine one of submission and endurance, which on all hands it is conceded, form the peculiar practical virtues of his teachings. |
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