1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in (new ed.) II. 109 Iron-jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive.
1906 C. M. Doughty IV. xv. 163 Some fret, at fires, and supple sinewed bows.
2007 M. K. Beran iii. xxx. 340 When a sickly man, dancing naked in a rented room, dreams of hurling lances with the supple-sinewed Hellenes, he has not embraced life—he has invented a new mode of myth.