Miss Barrington looked at him gravely, for there was a curious and steadily-tightening bond between the two.
Miss Barrington smiled a little, but the man fancied there was a just perceptible tightening of the hand upon his arm.
There was a sudden tighteningof the already taxed muscles.
There was a tightening of the prisoner's jaw muscles.
Jay Allison sat up and meticulously straightened his cuff before tightening his mouth in what was meant for a smile.
Regis said, with a little tightening of his mouth, "That's it.
Their realization of the pressing need for action, the tightening blockade, and the desperate possibilities of defeat, made them a trifle unwary.
NUTS [Illustration] Nuts are used in conjunction with bolts for fastening things together or tightening up parts of machines.
And it asked for a sudden tightening of the muscles of self-possession to keep him from looking over his shoulder to see if any of Stanton's shadow men were at hand.
Diablo squirmed under the torture of the tightening web on his sensitive skin, and crouched as though he would fall on the Trainer.
Lauzanne, the despised, had kept from his hand a small fortune, even when his fingers seemed tightening on the coin, too.
He studied her in silence a moment, with narrowing eyes and tightening lips.
I wish I knew he was--and damned," she snapped, with a tightening of her scarlet lips.
The Spahis seemed to attach great importance to the sit of their sashes, smoothing and tightening and re-tightening them with amusing coquetry.
The subsequent decline was related to the tightening of investment credit in an effort to reduce waste in the construction program (see Investment, this ch.
The loan repayment record of enterprises, trusts, and other economic organizations has not been nearly so good and led to a tightening of credit provisions in 1971.
The new organizational policy represents a tightening of central controls over agriculture.
Placed the closed hands to each side of the waist (thumbs upward with tips facing each other) and approximated them rapidly and with a jerk in front of navel--tightening the belt.
As the hangman's cord was tightening round Mortlake, he felt the convict's chains tightening round himself.
Utterly confounded, she leaned back, both hands tightening on the hand-rail behind her, and as she comprehended the passionless reproof, a stinging flush deepened over her pretty face.
For a moment she felt rather limp, then a quiver passed through her, tightening the relaxed nerves.
The asteroid would go around the earth in a series of ever-tightening ellipses, using Terra’s gravity, plus rocket fuel, to slow it down to the right orbital speed.
There was nothing to do now but ride out the rest of the trip as comfortably as possible until it was time to throw the asteroid into an ever-tightening series of elliptical orbits around earth, known as braking ellipses.
With a few turns of the bolt, the 224 crab-nut is brought close up to the under side of the sleeper, the spur-points become embedded in the wood, and hold the nut firmly in position during subsequent tightening of the bolt.
Where flange rails are used, they are fastened to the sleepers either by bolts, clamps, or clips raised up out of the iron sleeper, and bent over to hold tightening keys.
The advantage of having the Battalion compacted in one camp became almost at once exemplified, and the desirable tightening of discipline rapidly effected a great increase of efficiency.
The fullest advantage was taken of this golden opportunity, and the resultant tightening of discipline and advancement of all ranks in technical efficiency rapidly justified the change of station.
The long shriek of the whistle and the jerking of the car caused by the tightening of the air brake on the wheels, showed the train to be approaching a station.
He saw that Dan was captured, and with Cook also in jail he felt the toils of the law tightening around him.
This caricature, entitled "Tightening the Grip," showing the struggling Turk being slowly crushed to death in the relentless hug of the gigantic bear, may safely be left to speak for itself without further description.
The first band is left rather loose, and the machine is set in motion by the tightening of this band through the depression of the treadle.
In each case the pulling up commenced with the rise of the needle, and the tightening operation subjected the thread to all the friction of rubbing its way through both needle eye and fabric.
Sometimes a conical plug, with a screw cut around the outside for tightening itself in the upper end of the tube, is used for raising and lowering tubing.
The upper portion of the tubing is drawn down to the lower portion by the tightening screws B B, so as to compress the moss-packing when the weight is not sufficient for the purpose.
His lips framed the word "three" and his fingers were tightening on the trigger when Carson jumped forward with an oath.
A mighty gale that revolved circularly, but downward too, like a vortex, catching the plane and sweeping it into an ever tightening circle.
