tight-drawn

Friends, what shall we do? think you we should enter the house, and loose the queen from the tight-drawn noose?

Hippolytus 2008

Friends, what shall we do? think you we should enter the house, and loose the queen from the tight-drawn noose?

Hippolytus 2008

What arts, what arguments have we, once we have made a slip, to loose by craft the tight-drawn knot?

Hippolytus 2008

What arts, what arguments have we, once we have made a slip, to loose by craft the tight-drawn knot?

Hippolytus 2008

In front of it a sagging woman with tight-drawn hair, and a baby bedraggled, smeary, glorious - eyed.

Main Street 2004

Rosy cheeks, tight-drawn, close-shaven, and gleaming with friction of yellow soap, added vigor to the general expression of his face, which was firm and quick and straightforward.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

I was changed; the tight-drawn cord that sounded so harshly was loosened, the moment that Idris participated in my knowledge of our real situation.

The Last Man 2003

The sufferer's face was long, mobile and passionate, with high cheekbones and hollow cheeks beneath them, and a mouth tight-drawn, either with present pain or constant passion.

The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984

The creature was calm again, the gray-green eyes fully opened, the gray, tight-drawn face skin slightly less taut.

The Battle of Forever Van Vogt, A. E. 1971

He was a lean, starved, haggard thing, all bones and tight-drawn sallow skin.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954