dumb-bells

True, the weight room attracts a particular type, so the sample may be skewed, but the fact that anyone after a few stints with the dumb-bells can define their deltoids, transform their trapezoids and puff the biceps into hillocks on the arm means that, only so many reps away, a different body awaits.

BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

True, the weight room attracts a particular type, so the sample may be skewed, but the fact that anyone after a few stints with the dumb-bells can define their deltoids, transform their trapezoids and puff the biceps into hillocks on the arm means that, only so many reps away, a different body awaits.

BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

Can one branch become weaker with a dumb-bell or groiup of dumb-bells, at their head?

After Ginsburg? "A woman? It seems certain. It’s inconceivable that the Court could be all-male...." Ann Althouse 2009

If he is still living and not married, he is, most likely, unchanged to this day; he carves and carpenters and uses dumb-bells, and is as much a lady-killer as ever, and sketches Napoleon in a blue uniform in the albums of his lady friends.

The Jew and other stories 2006

Choosing to presume that the conference was over, he went back to the room in which he had kept his dumb-bells; and for a minute or two went to work at his favourite exercise.

Phineas Finn 2004

But he soon put the dumb-bells down, and began to prepare himself for his work.

Phineas Finn 2004

The doctor had been standing during the latter part of this conversation, but now he began to walk about, still holding the two bones like a pair of dumb-bells.

Doctor Thorne 2004

He found his friend standing in the middle of the room, without coat and waistcoat, with a pair of dumb-bells in his hands.

Phineas Finn 2004

He had been collecting the heads of his speech while Mr Low had been talking to him, and refreshing his quotations in the presence of Lord Chiltern and the dumb-bells.

Phineas Finn 2004

He bathed and used dumb-bells, and kept himself fit.

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003