Within reach of his arm was the brawny shoulder of a gigantic Indian, whose deep and authoritative voice appeared to give directions to the proceedings of his fellows.
And she was standing there, talking to the salesman, a brawny fellow with sinewy arms, who from morning to night carried loads heavy enough to break a bullock's back.
The proctor studied her. " You are ... brawny for a woman, it is true, but ... mayhaps I should take you up to Elder Brother. He will have seen you crossing the mud. Come" .
By dint of perseverance and two brawny arms She made a passage through the Crowd, and managed to bustle herself into the very body of the Church, at no great distance from the Pulpit.
" Your axe" ? exclaimed the larger of the riders, a brawny man with a shaggy beard and a shock of orange hair. " Did you hear that, Haldon? The little man wants to fight with us" !
To be one of those brawny, brown-necked men, who can string their muscles from dawn to sundown, and go home without an ache to the sound slumber which will make them fresh again for to-morrow's toil!