The rope was tautly stretched. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, : taut nerves. From Dictionary.com.
"The Visioness first, " Ehomba reminded him tautly. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
"I think it's perfectly keen," said Wehling tautly. From Wordnik.com. [2 B R 0 2 B] Reference
'Blow me, the beggar's right!' said te Kiore tautly. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Noon]
'I hadn't thought that far yet,' she replied tautly. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage At A Price]
It looked as if he drove on a tautly stretched cloth. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghosts of Gol]
Presently the cover was in place, and tautly secured. From Wordnik.com. [Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie] Reference
"Miss Grey," Choya Barnett returned the greeting tautly. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Fiddler]
The man spoke softly, tautly, as if he were in great pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire In His Hands]
"Not usually," Ornina said, hunched tautly over her board. From Wordnik.com. [Angelmass]
She said tautly, 'Of course, you know so much about women.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Tycoon's Mistress]
It was a tautly whispered accusation, ripe with remembered pain. From Wordnik.com. [Heart Of Stone]
The thick tentacles that grew from his shoulders undulated tautly. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
Joe's jaws clamped tautly shut at the ideas that came into his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Space Platform]
'I take it Madison and Gideon know exactly who you are?' he said tautly. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Virgin]
'I'm paying to stay at the Hellenic Imperial,' she re minded him tautly. From Wordnik.com. [The Tycoon's Mistress]
'Do you think we might meet someone here today, Lois?' she asked tautly. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage At A Price]
"You mean," repeated Zaphod tautly, "that I had it with me all the time?". From Wordnik.com. [The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]
Nobody would describe "The Future of Liberalism" as a tautly written book. From Wordnik.com. [A Look at What Is Left] Reference
Rather than sagging, it ballooned tautly against his cheekbones and forearms. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodhype]
"He discriminates," Choya answered tautly, a vague cryptic note in his words. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Fiddler]
"They went through a fight/flight transformation, didn't they?" the other said tautly. From Wordnik.com. [Warhorse]
Gordon grinned tautly, stepped through, and pushed the blade against the inner plastic. From Wordnik.com. [Police Your Planet] Reference
The slightest untoward action on the part of one person brought the others tautly erect. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
She laughed with her head back, the line of her throat leading tautly down into her dress. From Wordnik.com. [Forfeit]
'I thought you were in a hurry to put your shopping in the fridge,' she reminded him tautly. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Virgin]
What Georgia did on Aug. 7 was criminal also, in violation of tautly stretched peace agreements. From Wordnik.com. [Nationalism vs. Internationalism in S. Ossetia] Reference
Her sharp bow cut the water like a scimitar, and her single sail billowed tautly before the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Avenger]
"The Foreign Office assured us that he was being well treated," Faye reminded the older man tautly. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Mistress]
His position pulled the material of his slacks tautly over his thigh as his muscles bunched beneath it. From Wordnik.com. [Heart Of Stone]
And there's "Self" (1978), a tautly enclosed volume the artist has stained a deep black that sits there, hunched and brooding. From Wordnik.com. [The Meticulous and the Magical] Reference
Despite her advanced age, Xeerelu advanced on him with surprising speed, stepping between him and the tautly muscled Chraluuc. From Wordnik.com. [Sliding Scales]
This form of hair loss is associated with such hair styles - as ponytails - in which the hair is pulled tautly away from the scalp. From Wordnik.com. [Alopecia: Hair Loss in Men and Women Explained] Reference
'And I sincerely hope the history you're referring to is our professional one,' she continued tautly, her own anger far from defused. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Virgin]
The rope (pg. 121) then, drawn tightly as it was, so tautly, so fiercely, toward the tarn, suddenly, a foot or so above the meat, snapped. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
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