Tightened

Examples

• Suppose that while one were bearing on pretty hard with a well-tightened string, in order to bring fire quickly, the point of the spindle should slip from its block. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Now you have tightened your garters, the gypsy said approvingly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She stopped for a moment, her arms tightened over her bosom, and she laughed to herself--a hard, harsh, angry laugh. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Then his finger tightened on the trigger. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• After a darkening hour or so, suddenly the rudder-lines tightened in his hold, and he steered hard towards the Surrey shore. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Wemmick tightened his post-office and shook his head, as if his opinion were dead against any fatal weakness of that sort. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Her cheek grew burning hot against my neck, and her arms trembled and tightened round me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When the strings are tightened, the pitch rises; when the strings are loosened, the pitch falls. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He grinned at her, a cracked, stiff, too-tightened-facial-tendoned grin. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• For, now, the rope came in, tightened and strained to its utmost as it appeared, and the men turned heavily, and the windlass complained. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The sniper looked away but his lips tightened. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Simultaneously my free hand shot out for the black throat, just within reach, and the ebony finger tightened on the trigger. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• There were hard bulges under the canvas that tightened in the rain. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• This involved some slipping and consequent burning of belts; also, if the belt were prematurely tightened, the burning-out of the armature. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His knees tightened to bronze as he hung above her soft face, whose lips parted and whose eyes dilated in a strange violation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• My grip tightened upon the chain. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He turned and gathered her in his arMs. And feeling her soft against him, so perfectly and wondrously soft and recipient, his arms tightened on her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He tightened his grip upon the protesting professor and increased his speed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• When the motor was started, the armature was brought up to full revolution and then the belt was tightened on the car-axle, compelling motion of the locomotive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Her hand tightened round my arm, and she looked anxiously at the gate before us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening--the fall. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He tightened his hold in time to prevent her sinking on the floor, but she cried out in a terrible voice, 'I shall die if you hold me! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• By degrees, Wemmick got dryer and harder as we went along, and his mouth tightened into a post-office again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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