988 examples of clenching in sentences

That's what I came for, not to sit idle in a God-damn cabin and thinkthink" He got up suddenly and strode the tiny space from fire to door, a man transformed, with hands clenching and dark face almost evil.

Clenching his fists and with the boxer's attitude, Pen aimed two swift blows at Darrin.

" "I am come to smite them hence," said Beltane, clenching mighty fists.

" "Lord," quoth Walkyn, clenching mighty fists, "have they tormented theewas it the torture, lord?

"At the full o' the moon, Roger!" "Why then," muttered Roger gulping, and clenching trembling hands, "we must needs be plague-smitten, blasted and everlastingly damned, for needs must I go with thee.

"He will betray us!" "Dogs!" said Beltane, clenching his hands, "will ye defy me then?

Thus, sighing and a-swoon, did Helen fair, a Duchess proud" "Ah!" cried Beltane, clenching sudden fist, "what base and lying babble do ye speak?

I am a Christian, sir!" says Ward, glaring furiously, and clenching his great fists.

"Nay!" cried he, clenching his hands upon the arms of his seat, "Gilbert is not yet beaten!

Rudolph, clenching his fists in a helpless longing to rush out and scatter all these men-at-arms, had a strange sense of being transported into the past, to watch with ghostly impotence a mediaeval tragedy.

At night a negro string-band played for the white excursionists to dance, and Cissie would sit, with glowing eyes, clenching Peter's hand, every fiber of her asway to the music, and it seemed as if her heart would go mad.

The captain turned with a snarl, and, clenching his huge, horny fist, let drive full in the other's face and knocked him off his feet.

It reminds me of a man clenching his fist unconsciously when he thinks of the liar who has slandered him.

Was one?" "Aboard o' that there unfortunate wessel," said the captain, rising from his chair, and clenching his hand with prodigious energy and exultation, "was a lad, a gallant ladas I've heard tellthat had loved when he was a boy to read and talk about brave actions in shipwrecksI've heerd him!I've heerd him!and

and clenching his lips hard, he waited for the doctor to commence the operation of setting his arm.

" "We'll make them!" cried Sally, clenching her fist.

" Coquenil was watching closely and, through the prisoner's half shut eyes, he caught a flash of anger, a quick clenching of the freed hands and thenthen Groener sat down.

" He peered again into the fire, and added, by way of clenching his argument: "I guess it would have been rather slow-going, if the Lord had confined Abraham to one wife, like some of these narrow, contracted nations of modern Christianity.

"All is ended," he said again, clenching his hands.

"Gently," he begged of Corp, with a gallant smile, and clenching his teeth so that the pain should not make him cry out before the ladies.

Indeed where, as long as states have existed, has there ever been a case of any one, no matter who, being cast out of such a community?" "I call that man cast out," answered Kohlhaas, clenching his fist, "who is denied the protection of the laws.

On a half-dozen chairs sat as many men, some holding their heads in their hands, some doubled in two, others clenching their fists in agony.

Lavretsky still stood there, clenching the fatal note in his hand, and gazing unmeaningly on the floor.

Then was a sound of two men clenching, and struggling toward the door.

At the time when the clenching commenced, the vision was faint, as if she were looking into a dark room.

988 examples of  clenching  in sentences