She stood a few minutes speechless by its side; but the painfully tight clasp in which she held Charlotte's hand expressed better than any words could have done the tension of feeling, the passion of emotion, which dominated her.
Even after she had been long dead, the old women in the village talked of her beauty and spirit, of the tight hand she kept over every one and every thing pertaining to Sandal.
Everything sounded quiet and calm enough for Capetown--yet plainly feeling was strained tight to snapping.
But there was, too, in the rigid setting of her features and the tight knitting of her brows a sort of presentiment; perhaps she foresaw her fate.
A close gown with tight sleeves was surmounted by a pelisse, the sleeves of which were very wide and full, and the fur trimming showed the high rank of the wearer.
But knowing that her only chance of success lay in civil and submissive manners, she shut her lips tight and made no answer.
Tight and flaxen, they stood out in rounded curves, converging suddenly to the bit of faded ribbon that tied them together.
Miss Theodosia found little letters emerging through the tight crack under her outside door.
The dresses were dry enough to roll into tight bundles.
She was not Miss Theodosia who detested crowds; in the tight grip of the miracle, she was Miss Theodosia who thrilled and enjoyed.
Sometimes they were cheerful little letters that peeped under thetight crack.
But Spud O'Malley, hanging precariously from that opening above, knew nothing of the sulphurous fumes or of the tightband they clamped about his throat.
A crashing impact drove the men to the floor in a sprawling heap; Chet pulled the last strap tight as he lay there.
Then a net of rough-fibered rope was flung about him, and he felt it draw tight as the winged beasts lifted him up and out into the void.
Feeble, this attempt at humor; but there was none to note the strained edge in his tone, only a girl, whose metal-clad hand closed in a tight hold upon his.
Yet, despite the Irishman's anger, it was noticeable that he closed the tight door of the control room before he said a word.
He unrolled the tight package of cloth to find a small can of black graphite lubricant done up in a jacket and blouse.
Ef ever you git in a tight place in your terbaccer, Mr. Lindsay, you know who to send fer.
Mr. Doggett inquired, as he wrestled with a tight sock.
Hit don't fit: I hain't a goin' to torment myse'f squez in sech tight armholes as them is!
If we wish to know whether a pain in the foot is due to a tight lacing, we relax the lacing and make no other change: if the pain then disappears, we refer it to the lacing as the cause.
In other cases, depending on its shape and position, the foreign body is better removed by means of a snare, the loop of which is manipulated round it and then drawn tight in the same manner as in the extraction of a polypus.
The suture is drawn tight and tied so that Tenon’s capsule and the muscles are thereby drawn over the globe.
The sutures should be drawn tight enough to produce an undue amount of retraction of the lid, as this tends to drop again after removal of the sutures.
A purse-string suture is then inserted around its margins and drawn tight so that the whole cornea is covered by conjunctiva.
The loop is then drawn tight so as to hold the malleus firmly in its grasp.
I haven't got the girth as tight as it was last time by three holes.
He'd tied himself in a tight knot close round the hook and the chain.
Keep it just tight enough to feel me, but not enough to hinder me as I get down from stone to stone.
But strange to state, their ponies displayed no uneasiness, the tight hands kept upon their reins were not needed, and the docile little animals stepped steadily onward towards the stone-dotted slope and basin.
Then you pull till all is as tight as tight, and fasten off the knots.
If I got in a tight place I wouldn’t hesitate to borrow a dollar or two to help me on my way back to the owner.
One of his little hands had tight hold of the precious pink bag, and a sticky smile of blissful content turned up the corners of his full red lips.
I found her on a little plateau quite far up, and because I was tired I sat down to rest, keeping tight hold of her, you may be sure.
His lips drew tight across his teeth, which grinned in the face of exhaustion like the travesty of laughter on a skull.
The result they pounded fine, and mixed with melted fat and the marrow, which, in turn, was compressed while warm into air-tight little bags.
The result was a water-tight covering for the wigwam.
He found her standing by the window, holding her hands tight to her heaving sides, trying by main force to control the tempest of her sobs.
He held her tight by the wrists and drew her to him; and she laid her arms lightly on his neck and kissed him.
She peeled two skin-tight gloves from her plump hands, so carefully that the operation gave her all the time she wanted.
It strikes me poor old Majendie's in a pretty tight place with that wife of his.
They had loose hanging sleeves, lined with white silk, which was turned over and scolloped; the hose, which were of the same colour as the doublets, were tight fitting.
In the other kennel in each pen during the cold weather is a large, tight box, with hole in side, filled with this soft hay, renewed when necessary, in which two dogs sleep very comfortably.
I do not care if the dam has a somewhat longer tail than the dog, my experience has been that a bitch possessing a tight screw tail did not do quite as well in whelping as one having one a little longer.
If we lived on a farm, I suppose Theodore would wear cowhide boots, and pants too tight and short for him, and a swallow-tailed coat.
If I sit tight for a bit and don't get ready to go anywhere, perhaps I shall get back to Oxford after all.
You say you are in a fairly tight hole," I replied.
When it is found that the prehistoric Egyptians, who knew not tight shoes, suffered from the same defect in a similar degree, one's confidence in this kind of evidence is much diminished.
It is confidently alleged that this is due to the inheritance of the effects of wearing tight shoes through many centuries.
When first placed in the water, the boat leaks a little, but the canvas soon swells, so as to make it sufficiently tight for all practical purposes.
Where it can conveniently be carried, we think that boiled fresh beef, preserved in air-tight tin canisters, is by far the best, as being in effect equal to fresh killed meat cooked in the same manner.
The holes should be carefully bored along the edges that come in contact, and they may be sewn with fibres from the roots of pine trees or from small cedar twigs, and rendered water-tight by the use of pine-tree gum.
The Zouaves simply wear gaiters to keep dirt out of the shoe, and they detest the tight leggings, and on a march pitch them away, and let the knickerbockers lower down upon the leg.
In outspanning the order is reversed, the fore oxen being left to keep the trek rope tighttill the very last.
All the joints of the bamboo should be luted fast with clay, and kept tight until the planks are sufficiently steamed for bending, when they are dragged out with wooden tongs, and put in place on the vessel.
She held her so tight she could hardly remove her claws from her shoulder.
She had walked all the way from the pine woods, dragging that heavy wooden doll by the dress, which bore marks of her teeth, having to shut them tight to bear the strain of that weight.
I shut my mouth tight when any one came in; and at the name of doctor I fled under the bed, where I remained with fear and trembling, fearing my teeth were to be operated upon.
My young man wore tight yellow trousers with reddish stripes and his name was Oronte.
He saw the hands of the old man grip the rod so tight that the knuckles whitened.
