When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best[…]

But she was tired of cell culture, tired of meticulously cutting away dead tissue like gristle from a steak […]

1885, Ada Sarah Ballin, The Science of Dress in Theory and Practice,
It. must be borne in mind that the bones of a young infant are little more than gristle, and are liable to bend, and so become deformed.

"The young 'un will make his way," said Belcher, who had come across to us. "He's more a sparrer than a fighter just at present, but when his gristle sets he'll take on anything on the list.

Gristle

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