The nation must gird up its loins to face these difficult times.
Pro 31:17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
The blouse Niu that unties her buttons up, will her sleep the position that the skirt pulls Gao Dao's loins.
"Numbles" once meant the loin of an animal, so a numble pie was a British meat pie made with the loins of animals.
We can bear our load of trouble or pass uninjured through the waves of distress if we can gird our loins with the girdle of peace, that girdle which is buckled on by the hands of trust.
Gird your loins.
They were cooked shoulders, legs, and loins of cows.
This tonic, strengthening the loins and invigorating the kidney, is the first choice for the nephrotics.
Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
Both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the covering of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys.
洛麗塔，我的生命之光，我的慾念之火，我的罪惡，我的靈魂。 Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
Can the British gird up their loins and move ahead?
Below: Light of my life, fire of my loins... The image that will never age: "Lolita" (Stanley Kubrick, 1962).
An unexpected pleasure at football games that autumn was a view of winsome drum majorettes pumping their loins in a frenzy of excitement as thousands cheered.
backbone and both loins of a lamb.
cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins.
have pains in the loins and back; to have a sore waist and an aching back; be aching all over
A strip of cloth worn around the loins.
Smite the loins of those who rise up against him; strike his foes till they rise no more.
The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep.
And I lifted up my eyes, and I saw: and behold a man clothed in linen, and his loins were girded with the finest gold.
hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton.
A cloth worn to cover the loins; a loincloth.
It was as though a deed of conveyance of her narrow loins had been drawn and sealed.
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's Passover.
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