"Tighten" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his face tighten into a frown of perplexity. That wasn't like Literate First Class Stephen S. Bayne. He made quite a hobby of pinching salesgirls behind the counter which was one thing; the boss' ...
— Null-ABC • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
... pastor of a large congregation some period of recuperation during the summer is absolutely indispensable. The cavalry officer who, when hotly pursued by the enemy, discovered that his saddle-girths had become loose, and dismounted long enough to tighten them, was a wise man, and affords a ...
— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
... "Better try to tighten up—if you can," advised Boswell, as our hero came to the bench. "They're finding ...
— Baseball Joe in the Big League - or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles • Lester Chadwick
... he asked, in rather a queer voice; and I realized how much I was at his mercy, as, fascinated, I watched his brown hand tighten on the wheel. If he liked, he could stop "Mascotte" in mid sea, and let me lie at the mercy of the enemy. I could do nothing. Hendrik would obey him, not me. Even Tibe would not seize him by the throat to please me. Tibe likes and respects ...
— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson
... Let us forget it," she whispered. "We have both suffered—both of us," and I felt her arms tighten about my neck. "Oh, how you ...
— The Seven Secrets • William Le Queux
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