The two little boys, laced up tightly as they were in a stout pair of stays, pinched and scratched, and kicked and jerked.
Presently they began to feel uncomfortable, especially Jimmy, whose fat, round little middle wastightly compressed.
The under cover of the slate (with a bit of slate-pencil tightly enclosed) rested on his knee; the upper cover was pressed against the frame of the table.
He tried standing upright whilst Diamond was galloping, but could not keep his balance, and fell forward with his arms clasped tightly round the animal's neck.
They could hear the tramp of horses now, near, very near, and yet the men seated silent in the boat held tightly to the bank.
Rosette, standing hidden behind the hedge, clenched her hands tightly at the word.
I pick up the parcel, tightly wrapped in brown paper.
Trembling with fear of discovery, I empty the treasure into the sewer at the end of the hall, and tightlyjam the elbow of the waste pipe.
The night was sultry; the sashes of the hall window opposite my cell were tightly closed.
The door of the port consists of a heavy brass frame with a heavy glass window and it can be closed tightly by means of a rubber gasket and two thumbscrews.
After the valve f is tightly closed the empty can is weighed.
The new caste in our railroading would hold him tightly down.
Southern New England is already pretty tightly set as a simon-pure railroad region.
It met these added costs, without any very visible addition to its revenues, by holding rather tightly down on its pay-roll and by adopting large operating efficiencies and economies.
Herhor grew much paler than before; Mefres pressed his blue lips together tightly and dropped his eyelids.
And Katharine, not understanding the spring from which all this friendliness flowed, unbent slightly as the days went by, paid more attention to the life around her, yet kept the tightly closed lips and the unhappy eyes.
She noted, too, that the yellow hair was dressed picturesquely but untidily, that the big eyes rolled from side to side self-consciously, that the statuesque figure was incased in a too tightly laced corset.
In a flash she wrapped her arms around the chief stewardess and held her as tightly as possible.
Mrs. Van Verity Vanness had her eyes closed tightly and Jane spoke to her reassuringly.
At breakfast she ordered the boy to tell where he had been; but though his heart beat fast with terror, he closed his lips tightly and remained silent.
And he clasped his hands tightly as he gazed upwards in an agony of fear.
In the next moment she was clinging to the breast of her father, who, with his arms clasped tightly around her, stood weeping and mingling his tears with those now raining from the little one's eyes.
This gun was the one his father had fired twice after being shot through the heart, and his hand had stiffened so tightly upon it in the death-grip that his fingers had to be pried open.
They did not stop climbing while Duane tore a scarf and made compresses, which he bound tightly over his wounds.
Giving the horse his head, Duane wound his scarf tightly round the holes, and with teeth and hand tied it tightly.
As for Ruhannah, she sat with slender gloved hands tightly clasped, lips parted, intent, fascinated with the sunlit beauty of the scene.
He fastened it tightly to the iron frame of the bed, stepped back to view the effect, then leisurely pulled out and filled his porcelain pipe, and seated himself on the sofa beside Ali Baba.
Then she looked back over her shoulder; her mother kissed her, held her tightly for a moment.
The Princess Mistchenka's dark eyes began to gleam, and her beautiful face lost its colour; and she took Rue's little hands in both of hers and held them tightly against her breast.
He could not screen the corridor window entirely; the shade seemed to be too short; but it was late, the corridor dark, all the curtains in the car closed tightly over the berths, and his privacy was not likely to be disturbed.
Neeland passed his arm under hers, nodded to Ilse Dumont, and started cautiously down the carpeted stairs, his automatic pistol in one hand, and the revolver taken from the imprisoned secret agent clutched tightly in the other.
At the back of the room were large folding-doors, now tightly closed.
Never," and Ruth's red lips closedtightly over her pearly teeth.
Thure thrust his hand into the bag and drew out a long, tightly rolled piece of white parchment-like skin.
Ham bent excitedly and with his knife began cutting the thongs, which bound Mrs. Dickson, head and all, in her own blanket as tightly as an Egyptian mummy.
In a moment her body was free; but, when the blanket was lifted from her face, her mouth was found to be sotightly stuffed, with a piece of cloth torn from her own dress, that she could not utter an audible sound.
Thure; and both excited boys made a dive for the hole, with the result that their bodies stuck tightly in the opening, the hole not being large enough to accommodate the entrance of both of them at the same time.
The two men at once quietly but quickly gathered the other members of the company and soon all were back again in the house, with the door tightly closed.
Then the hand was taken from her throat, her arms pressed closely to her sides, and she was tightly rolled up in her own blanket, head and all, and tied the way they had found her.
That will sure fool them," and he hurried to where the corpse of Ugger lay; and, in a few minutes, the body was tightly bound up in a blanket and laid down on the exact spot where Ham had found Holt.
The third limb was about twenty feet from the ground, of huge size and thrust itself straight out to the rocky wall of the canyon, against which its end appeared to be tightly pressed.
I overheard him and another man, after I had recovered my senses and lay tightly bound up in the blanket, planning how he would go and get the rest of the gang, while the other man climbed the tree and kept guard over the narrow opening.
My hair was straight and not noticeable in any way, and it was tightly plaited, as was the fashion, unless a child's hair was thick enough to make pretty ringlets.
And the remaining threepence we invested in a slice of sweet sandwich, which she told us would be perfectly good if kept in a tin tightly closed.
When near the top he gave another yell and hustled down to a lower limb, where he sat with his hands clinging tightly to the trunk.
It is essential that the warp threads be held tightly in the loom, and to secure this, they pass alternately over and under three or four back rests before reaching the heddles or cambs, which are almost invariably made of wire.
Standards from which galvanized wire is tightly strained from one end to the other are preferable and very convenient.
I did as she directed, grasping Mrs. Austin's hand tightly as we walked home, and proceeding at so brisk a pace that she was often obliged to check me.
Englehart drew in his breath with the hissing sound of passion, and folded his arms tightly across his padded breast, as if they enfolded the bride he was suing for in another's name.
But on the other, half the men were wrapping the base of the hill in khaki, which rose higher and higher, growing looser and lesstightly wrapt as it spun upward.
If there is no hole in the filler cap, the latter should not be screwed down so tightly that an airtight joint will be formed.
As it is highly important that the cap screws or nuts holding the bearing cap in place should remain set as tightly as possible, precautions must be taken to prevent any of these from working loose.
Inasmuch as a spring is used to keep the valve tightly closed when the cam is not lifting the latter, it is the contact of the valve head with its seat that must form the stop to the motion of the spring.
This is at the point of ignition and is the time at which both valves should be tightly closed.
In other words, the two halves of the box must be held tightly in place by means of the bolts and nuts, but none of this pressure should rest on the revolving shaft, as this would bind it and prevent it from turning easily.
Care should be taken to screw the bearing cap onto the shims as tightly as possible each time the blueing test is to be made.
The push rod should not be forced tightly against the periphery of the cam when the valve is closed, however, for this would prevent perfect contact between the valve and its seat.
This pattern is so easy to work that it hardly needs description, the only part requiring care being the squares of point de feston; these are begun in the centre, and the thread should be drawn rather tightly so as to form a good square.
Draw up very tightly the cotton over which you work, so that the circles form a rosette, which is closed by sewing together the two corresponding purl of the first and last circle.
The netting should be laced as tightly as possible, it being far easier to darn on than when loose.
Cast on enough stitches for double the width required, say twenty, and knit very tightly in plain knitting, row by row, until a sufficient length has been obtained.
Take the end of the shuttle which comes out from the loop between the forefinger and thumb of the right hand, and strain the cotton very tightly towards the right.
At the end of the round the two ends of cotton are tied tightly together.
When a certain number of stitches are made, very tightly draw in the loop by straining the cotton until the first stitch touches the last, and thus a loop is formed.
During this process the stitches should be held tightly between the forefinger and thumb.
Bobby was still munching contentedly away at his first apple, the other clutched tightly in his left hand, when Richard's mothers led the children into the house to see the "presents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tightly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: fast; firm; firmly; tight
