clench

'Most every clench, like clock work, down he'd chop one on me.

Shrouded in thick melancholy, and eager for the little casualties that bring death: thus do they wait, and clench their teeth.

These images of voluptuousness made him clench his fists, and a shiver run along his spine.

Though we defended ourselves, and repulsed the enemy, yet this unhappy affair scattered our cattle, brought us into extreme difficulty, and so discouraged the whole company, that we retreated forty miles, to the settlement on Clench river.

I flung aside a crib of Horace I had been reading, and began to clench my fists, to bite my lips, and to pace the room.

For all the world like a woman wringing her hands, he raised his clenched fists and groaned.

Simon Nishikanta was fiendish in his descriptions of whatever miscreant had done the deed and of how he should be made to suffer for it, while Grimshaw clenched and repeatedly clenched his great hands as if throttling some throat.

His face was ghastly pale; his eyes were fixed upon the ground; his teeth clenched: his forehead glistened with the dews of agony.

Singer seized a brush and with the back of it beat Philip's hands clenched on the blanket.

A woman wearing the same kind of clothes as people in other houses wear, told us to go up to the second floor, and she grinned at David, as if she had heard about him; so up we went, David muttering through his clenched teeth, "I sha'n't laugh," and as soon as we knocked a voice called out, "Here we are again!" at which a shudder passed through David as if he feared that he had set himself an impossible task.

She stood up, her eyes blazing, her hands clenched together.

"Then 'ere's the ticker!" The boy pointed to the clenched hand of the senseless woman.