There were marks of fatigue on his face, and that kind of tautness shown by a man driven to the edge of endurance, perhaps beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Year of the Unicorn]
Only Mary heard the tautness underlying his voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
Beneath tautness and concern, exhilaration thrilled. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Is the tautness of the structure what appeals to you?. From Wordnik.com. [Whither the Short Story? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
And suddenly the man sensed tautness in that massive frame. From Wordnik.com. [Agent Of The Terran Empire]
Okami did not understand the tautness in the Colonel's tone. From Wordnik.com. [Floating City]
Already she could feel the renewed tautness in his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
Their continuing purpose created ... tautness; yes, a rigidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Forever]
There is a tautness to them and they seem plumper in colder weather. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
Brannoch sighed gustily and tried to ease the tautness within himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Way Home]
She bore down hard on him, clenched hard about him, strained with tautness. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
His skin had the grey tautness of terminal illness but his handshake was strong. From Wordnik.com. [They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff] Reference
Morphia, a flush mantling her high cheekbones, and a certain tautness to her jaw. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
He could feel where tautness and slack meant that the wind was giving all it could. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Had he noticed that her silk kimono had deliciously abraded her nipples to tautness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Thrill of Victory]
A violin-string tautness edges Yanevich's words as he ob-serves, "Drop coming down.". From Wordnik.com. [Passage at Arms]
"No, thank you, Conan," the Turanian said in haste, a certain tautness around his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
There was a tautness to his mouth, an expression about his eyes I had never seen before. From Wordnik.com. [The Crystal Gryphon]
He detected a hint of tautness in Willie Garvin, and wondered if Hagan was being difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Modesty Blaise]
While not quite up to the tautness of the first season, it's still better than the last season. From Wordnik.com. [A Trio Of Upcoming SciFi Shows] Reference
For all the tautness of her posture, she succeeded somehow in looking graceful, Kenneth thought. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
He laydown on the carpeted floor and fought down the electric tautness of his nerves and muscles. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
She could feel the snarl rumbling in his throat and the eager tautness of muscles ready to spring. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Alright, that sorry excuse for a lemon drop is wearing off and the tautness in my neck is unbearable. From Wordnik.com. [An active mind, a sore neck] Reference
There was a tautness down his legs, and the energy-bulb weighed on the muscles of his diaphragm and rib-sheathing. From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
I pulled it loose then and, letting it tautness do the work, let it fly back over the walkway and the crenelation. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
Despite the bad light, Arkady could see on Kirwill's face, besides the usual dangerous tautness, a bloom of capillaries. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
Little by little, her body lost its tautness after the unexpected climaxes, and he smiled as he drew away from her mouth. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Alone]
Her tone was calmer, and the note of fear was gone, but I could hear the tautness of her nerves through it, for all that. From Wordnik.com. [Madam Will You Talk]
He hiked rather than walked, muscles swelling through the tautness of his slacks, arms swinging by his sides, military fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
Their delicate skin looked shiny and translucent, the tautness pulling a vastness into their eyes, as they looked around wildly. From Wordnik.com. [Faces of the Abandoned] Reference
The cockroaches are used in a facial cream that promises to cleanse skin and pores and maintain the skin's balance and tautness. From Wordnik.com. [Cockroach Facial Craze Sweeps Japan] Reference
Beneath it his torso would be ridged with muscle, the darkness of his body hair arrowing downwards over the tautness of his belly. From Wordnik.com. [Master of Pleasure]
I could see it in the tight line of his mouth, in the clenching of his big hands, in the tautness of his body, poised and ready to spring. From Wordnik.com. [Death on the River Walk]
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