steel-muscled

That goes double for arrogant, steel-muscled vampires with eyes of ice.

New Book Releases for Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance and Fantasy – November 3, 2009 Donna 2009

Suddenly he was crouched before her, steel-muscled shins imprisoning hers and making movement impossible.

Rekindled Delinsky, Barbara 1983

Beany made a light, steel-muscled bound, swung his legs up and out, using the spy's breast as a brace, turned a somersault over his head, dropping to the floor behind him.

The Boy Scouts on a Submarine Captain John Blaine

To the front of this was attached a delicately adjusted combination of scales and springs, by which Allan could tell when the draft of the team equaled a pound to the dog; and if more was indicated he was always behind pushing and adding all of the strength he possessed to that of those steel-muscled animals each of whom can start, on runners, several hundred pounds on level snow.

Baldy of Nome Esther Birdsall Darling

Heyl, steel-muscled, took the hills like a chamois.

Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926

Heyl, steel-muscled, took the hills like a chamois.

Fanny Herself 1917

The child was right -- John Flint did have good hands -- large enough, well-shaped, steel-muscled, powerful, with flexible, smooth-skinned, sensitive fingers, the fingers of an expert lapidary rather than a prize-fighter.

Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

Husky, steel-muscled lumbermen; brawny, calloused-handed fishermen; loose-jointed, easy-swinging trappers; athletes from the city foot-ball and hockey teams; and gawky, long-armed farmers joined the First

World's War Events, Vol. I 1902

They were lean, raw-boned, steel-muscled, tall, solemn-faced men, their eyes set deep in skin wrinkled from the scorch of sun on the white sands of the desert.

Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896

Sk’salissk’s steel-muscled hand shot out and grabbed Z’shezhira almost before she realized what was happening.

Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010