1 The muscles refused their duty.
2 Big for your age at that, with muscles like a horse.
3 My muscles are growing harder and increasing in size.
4 Knots and ridges and mounds of muscles writhed and bunched under the skin.
5 As he moved about or raised his arms the great muscles leapt and moved under the satiny skin.
6 Eighty feet beneath, I could see the agonized strain of his muscles as he gripped for very life.
7 These muscles were made to grip, and tear, and destroy living things that get between me and life.
8 Then the muscles relaxed, the head stopped rolling, and a sigh, as of profound relief, floated upward from his lips.
9 True, he is not what you would term muscular, but still he has muscles, which is more than he had when he came aboard.
10 It was indeed a twisted smile, for it was on the left side only, the facial muscles of the right side moving not at all.
11 My body was stiff from exertion as well as from cold, and my aching muscles gave me the severest torture whenever I used them, and I used them continually.
12 The chin, with the damp black beard, pointed higher in the air as the back muscles stiffened and the chest swelled in an unconscious and instinctive effort to get more air.
13 My muscles were small and soft, like a woman's, or so the doctors had said time and again in the course of their attempts to persuade me to go in for physical-culture fads.
14 And it seemed to me that his eyes were strange, not only the expression, but the physical seeming, as though the optic nerves and supporting muscles had suffered strain and slightly twisted the eyeballs.
15 He was firmly planted on his legs; his feet struck the deck squarely and with surety; every movement of a muscle, from the heave of the shoulders to the tightening of the lips about the cigar, was decisive, and seemed to come out of a strength that was excessive and overwhelming.
16 And I shall know that I must die, at sea most likely, cease crawling of myself to be all a-crawl with the corruption of the sea; to be fed upon, to be carrion, to yield up all the strength and movement of my muscles that it may become strength and movement in fin and scale and the guts of fishes.
17 But when the descending foot missed the solid flooring and felt vacancy beneath, it was the old Wolf Larsen and the tiger muscles that made the falling body spring across the opening, even as it fell, so that he struck on his chest and stomach, with arms outstretched, on the floor of the opposite side.
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