4 adjectives to describe clench

But these, we hope, are mere epigrams and jeux-d'esprit, as far from truth as they are free from malice; a sort of running satire or critical clenches "Where one for sense and one for rhyme Is quite sufficient at one time.

In its death agony, it made its powerful teeth meet in the hard wood, and not until it was being cut up, and we had divided the muscles of the jaws, could we extricate the wood from that formidable clench.

The fulsome clench, that nauseates the town, Would from a judge or alderman go down; Such virtue is there in a robe and gown!

They saw a dark hand of a sudden clench, shoot out like a brown light.

4 adjectives to describe  clench