He clenched his hands and clamped his wet fists against the legs of his breeches.
I rose in my stirrups and shook my youthful fists at the hills beyond the Gauley.
Hardly a dozen yards off ran a huge navvy, cursing in fragments and slashing viciously with a spade, and hard behind him came the tram conductor with his fists clenched.
Then he cried out passionately and his fists flew round like flails.
The other man was waiting, fists up, a yard away, but Samuel knew that though physically he had him by several inches and many pounds, he wouldn't hit him.
Many a time I've had George on my knee like that, and he used to double up his fists as if he wanted to fight all the world at once.
The sound of Westminster bells was ringing in his ears as he gathered up his little toes and legs and clenched his little fists with an air of saying, Come on!
Militia youngsters but half trained, in two thin lines opposing what appeared to them a furious sea of faces, fists and angry cries--no wonder they were nervous.
On the walls were foreign pictures, one of the anarchist Ferrer being executed in Spain, and another of an Italian mob shaking their fists and yelling like demons at a bloated hideous priest.
I'd rather not trust myself within reach of your raw fists yet, prisoner.
Some of the soldiers had stopped at the house to ask for something to eat; but others had marched by shaking their fists and yelling derisively.
The longer Allison talked the more his anger rose, and when he got through he was stalking about the narrow limits of the cabin, shaking his fists over his head in the most frantic manner.
But Yolande, though he could not see, clenched white fists and, though he could not hear, stamped slim foot at him.
And here, being defenceless, Sir Pertinax clenched mighty fists and swore until he lacked for breath.
The deputy swung his fistswildly in the air and his face became, if possible, redder than before.
Hairy-faced sailors shook their fists violently upward, and the Chinamen were driven like cattle into a hatchway and passed out of sight.
They wave their hats at me now, but they would soon be waving their fists if I did not give them something to talk over and to wonder at.
And no sensation I know of is equal to that of the moment when the mud and sticks and oranges are coming through the windows of your coach, when the dirty weavers are clutching at your ruffles and shaking their filthy fists under your nose.
Lad that I was, I would mark with pain the blush on Mrs. Manners's cheek, and clinch my fists as she tried to pass this off as a joke of her husband's.
Locked in the storeroom the boys felt like beating at the door with their fists to break it down, so they might get out, change the light, and save the steamer.
They beat upon the door with their fists as though by their feeble efforts they could break it down.
They fought indiscriminately, hitting at each other with fists and knives.
He continued belabouring it with his fists till it ceased to move.
Then suddenly he flung himself off the branch right on the animal's back, and with his powerful fists began belabouring away at its head and eyes.
Then Joseph, his face pressed against the wall, managed with his iron fists to seize the vulture by the claws, and with giant strength forced down the struggling animal as in a trap whilst it hacked at his hands and arms with its beak.
It was one wild confusion of fighting fists and wings, in which feathers flew about, and the walls grew red where Joseph's bleeding hands touched them.
Now she pauses suddenly, and with a demoniacal laugh sets her dull, glassy eyes on Mr. Krone, then walks round him with clenched fists and threatening gestures.
Our mob-politicians, who make their lungs and fists supply the want of brains, use it as their favorite haunt, and may be seen on the eve of an election passing in and out of a door in the rear.
When she thought of that, she shuddered and clenched her white teeth, and doubled her fists so tightly that her nails cut the flesh.
He doubled his fists and muttered words which sounded like soldier's oaths, and with them the name now of Paulus, now of his son.
At least the quails should fight again, and if Nikander should refuse I would force him to fight me with his fists in the Palaestra, and give him a blue reminder of his debt on the eye.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
