Title: Tenterhooks Author: Ada Leverson Release Date: November 8, 2003 [eBook #10021] Language: English Chatacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TENTERHOOKS*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Sarah Lewis, and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders Tenterhooks

Title: Tenterhooks Author: Ada Leverson Release Date: November 8, 2003 [eBook #10021] Language: English Chatacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TENTERHOOKS*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Sarah Lewis, and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders Tenterhooks

Title: Tenterhooks Author: Ada Leverson Release Date: November 8, 2003 [eBook #10021] Language: English Chatacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TENTERHOOKS*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Sarah Lewis, and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders Tenterhooks

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The second has a key-syllable that means stretching: tend, tender, tendon, tendril, tendency, extend, subtend, distend, pretend, contend, attendant, tense, tension, pretence, intense, intensive, ostensible, tent, tenterhook, portent, attention, intention, tenuous, attenuate, extenuate, antenna, tone, tonic, standard.

" The man in the corner made a long pause, keeping the girl on tenterhooks.

Pendency N. pendency^, dependency; suspension, hanging &c v.; pedicel, pedicle, peduncle; tail, train, flap, skirt, pigtail, pony tail, pendulum; hangnail peg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook; fastening &c 45; spar, horse.

He'll take a scant piece of coarse sense and stretch it on the tenterhooks of half-a-score rhymes, until it crack that you may see through it and it rattle like a drumhead.

His namesake, old Ulysses, upon returning to his palace, had found Penelope surrounded with suitors and had ended by hanging them on tenterhooks.

Elspeth gives the doctor a look which may mean much or nothing, and he glares at me as if I were in the way, and I glance at Aaron, and he is on tenterhooks lest I have noticed anything.

Julia, outwardly cool, inwardly on tenterhooks, saw so much out of the corner of her eye, and that the two, while they spoke, were looking at her.

McGurk was a treacherous, dirty blackguard, the leader of a gang of criminals, even if he was, as they all agree, a handsome rascal who had every woman in the district on tenterhooks.

'It is an excellent thing, my dear Eugénie, for a young man to be kept on tenterhooks.

The staff of servants was thus kept on tenterhooks all day, and when the shadows of evening began to draw in, the theory was started in the kitchen that M. le Marquis had either met with an accident or been foully murdered.