Beyond was a strip of desert,no hair at all for an inch and a half more toward the crown; the rest dragged back and tied behind with the relentless tightness that gradually and regularly, by the persistence of years, had accomplished this peculiar belt of clearing.

He remained motionless, conscious of that sensation of intense tightness of nerve and sinew in which an overpressed mind expresses itself.

It was approaching a state of solemn tightness, and for the consolation of the saints, the ease of the fidgety, and the general blissfulness of the neighbourhood it was expanded.

Only there was no mistake about thisthe Italian parterre; and a sudden tightness grew round her heart, and she thought of Mirko and the day she had last seen him.

I know not what happened after, save that I found myself upon my truckle-bed, with my leathern money-pouch clasped in my hand with surprising tightness, as if I had been mortally afraid that some one would mistake my poor satchel for his own pocket.

As Undine re-read her mother's pages, she felt an unusual tightness in her throat and two tears rose to her eyes.