| H5 III.i.7 | [King Henry to all] Stiffen the sinews |
| KL III.vi.96 | [disguised Kent to Lear] This rest might yet have balmed thy broken sinews [i.e. shattered nerves] |
| TC III.iii.304 | [Thersites to Achilles, of music in Ajax] none, unless the fiddler Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on |
| TG III.ii.78 | [Proteus to Thurio] Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews |
| Ven.903 | [of Venus] A second fear through all her sinews spread |