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Sinews of War

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Money, which buys the sinews, and makes them act vigorously. Men will not fight without wages, and the materials of war must be paid for.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Sin-eaters
Sincere
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Sindon
Sine Die (Latin)
Sine quā Non
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