Trent tried to break the grip of that vise-like hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monster] Reference

Frost grabbed it, squeezing the wrist in a vise-like grip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frost at Christmas]

They had a vise-like grip on power and thankfully blew it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Lauria: Obama Wins, but Republicans Self-Destructed] Reference

In his fright and confusion he had a vise-like grasp on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

I was barely airborne when a vise-like grip closed on my ankle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myth-Nomers And Im-Pervections]

Clarus says as she applies her vise-like grip to the man's elbow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frustrated by Holiday Shoplifters, One Store Turns to Higher Power] Reference

Unless he wished to drown, he must somehow clear his foot of that vise-like grip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Catching the girl's tender arm in a vise-like grip, the man hissed in her ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idle Hour Stories] Reference

And he grasped one of the big, struggling man's wrists firmly in a vise-like grip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference

Rogov seized the back of the man's neck, clamping his vise-like fingers down hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic Fire]

Kathy's grip, normally vise-like, today felt like a steel animal trap on his wrist.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Corpse is a Corpse]

Also, am not too keen about a device where Apple has almost complete, vise-like control.    From Wordnik.com.  [iPad Reviews - The First Wave] Reference

The landing was tricky – the decompression causing my diaphragm to turn vise-like again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman in the Fifth] Reference

The Grand Duke seized his arm in a vise-like grip and half pushed, half dragged him along with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts In Russia] Reference

What you are feeling is not hate, but the vise-like grip of facts crushing your pathetic world view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Marine Quoted By Schmidt Says He Never Mentioned Murtha] Reference

He turned with increased fury upon this meddler, but his other wrist was caught and held in a vise-like grip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

The decision is a major concession for a president who has held the country in a vise-like grip for 28 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mugabe Offers] Reference

Lynch deftly sticks the Gentlemen Bastards between these two plot elements, in a most satisfacory vise-like manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lies of Locke Lamora] Reference

You can find lots of unusual clamps and vise-like gadgets there—not to mention lifetime supplies of ropes, chains, and locks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come Hither] Reference

The two men had dinner with President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has held the country in a vise-like grip for nearly two decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comeback Id] Reference

From then on I was determined to track Simon down, gather him into my vise-like half-nelson, and force him to collaborate with me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q&A: Simon Gane] Reference

A carpet of ants covered his nose and face, clinging with a vise-like grip, their poisonous mandibles buried deep in his tender skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Phantom] Reference

Josephine perceived to her astonishment that the man was not fastened to the raft, except by the vise-like gripping of his big hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

And when I thrashed around in the middle of the night, unable to breathe with a vise-like tightness in my chest, I knew I was in trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Gray Faust: 5 Tips for Preventing High Altitude Sickness] Reference

Bishop winced as she seized his hand in a vise-like grip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fourth Watch] Reference

And his jaws had closed upon the stick in a vise-like hold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Timothy Turtle] Reference

If he hadn't held her in that vise-like grip she would have fallen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Oxen] Reference

Ree's knee had been, and clutched the boy's throat with a vise-like grip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far Past the Frontier] Reference

They had passed the turn and instantly he had her in a tense, vise-like hug.    From Wordnik.com.  [Play the Game!] Reference

It seemed to loosen the vise-like hold upon his muscles, to liberate his tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The U. P. Trail] Reference

His companion held a well-chewed black cigar in the vise-like corner of his mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quill's Window] Reference

The trap's collapsing arms kill instantly by snapping at the neck with a vise-like grip.    From Wordnik.com.  [News & Record Article Feed] Reference

After all, it was now or never; the gamblers 'fever seized me, too, in a vise-like grip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reckoning] Reference

But he looked away gloomy and defiant, and she felt his grasp tighten vise-like around her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taken Alive] Reference

For what seemed to the lad countless years the vise-like grasp was maintained upon his windpipe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol] Reference

Many people already have their second passports and you can join them by removing the government's vise-like grip from around your neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRWeb - Daily News Feed] Reference