2633 examples of tightest in sentences

" "It's an old saying," rejoined Blumenthal, "that, when men enter into a league with Satan, he always deserts them at the tightest pinch; and I've often observed he's sure to do it where arguments pinch.

"Lady Arthur came down some little time before the racing week with her servantsshe had no children; but she had many relatives and friends in York, since she was the daughter of old Sir John Etty, the cocoa manufacturer, a rigid Quaker, who, it was generally said, kept the tightest possible hold on his own purse-strings and looked with marked disfavour upon his aristocratic son-in-law's fondness for gaming tables and betting books.

He had heard her voice; when that death-grip was tightest about his throat there had come to him that terrified cry: "Mon Dieu, you are killing himkilling him!" His breath came a little faster as he whispered the words to himself.

A man cannot show his vanity in a tight skirt which forces him to walk sideways down the staircase; but let the match be between the respective vanities of largest beard and tightest skirt, and here too the battle would be to the strong.

I need hardly say that they form the tightest knots before the works of Raphael.

in a thick striped jersey, and the tightest knickerbockers; almost as low as a "scorcher."

Victorine wore a pink dress too, with horrid bunches of daisies on her shoulders and in her hair; and, as that is dark and greasy, and dragged off her face, and done in the tightest twist at the top, it does not look a suitable place for daisies to be sprouting from.

* Hatred And dangerthe two hands that tightest grasp Each otherthe two cords that soonest knit A fast and stubborn tie: your true love-knot Is nothing to it.

"Are you going to sell her?" "I am not," Ken would say, maddeningly, jingling a handful of bolts in his pocket; "not I." The patch in the Flying Dutchman was not such as a boat-builder would have made, but it was water-tight, and that was the main point.

He looked at her a long time earnestly, searchingly, one of her hands imprisoned tight between his two big palms.

"I suppose," he growled, "that's Charlie's idea of a joke, huh?" Stella turned away from the tiny garments, one little, hood crumpled tight in her hand.

She had the wit to remember and act upon Jack Fyfe's coaching, namely, to sit tight and hang on.

I know it's best for me to keep this locked tight in my heart, as something precious and sorrowful.

When at last my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character, and in my tightest and fearfullest suit, I was then delivered over to Mr. Pumblechook, who said dramatically: "Boy, be forever grateful to all friends, but especially unto them which brought you up by hand!"

The eyes shut and gripped tight in an emphatic answer, and the Sister explained their code.

He was quite aware of the necessity of some brilliant or of some profitable exploit, to curb the rising tempers of his men; and long experience had taught him that he could ever draw the cords of discipline the tightest in moments that appeared the most to require the exercise of his own high courage and consummate skill.

" For Gunga Singhai was Warwick Sahib's own personal attendant and gun-carrierthe native that the Protector of the Poor could trust in the tightest places.

"In 1875 was the tightest, hardest time in all my life, A chew of tobacco cost ten cents.

As it happened, Lieutenant-Colonel Ross-Ellison, in very different guise, had seen Sergeant Lawrence-Smith extricate and withdraw his officerless company from the tightest of tight places (on the Border) in a manner that moved him to large admiration.

Henry was undoubtedly the Tightest Wad in the Township.

but they asked her to tie them up with a rope first lest they should get to fighting over the food, so the old woman brought a thick rope and tied them all up and tightest of all she tied up the jackal which had cursed Anuwa; then she went inside and put an iron pan on the fire and from time to time she sprinkled water on it and when the jackals heard the water hissing they thought that it was the cakes frying and jumped about with joy.

Toward this beach the Miranda was now headed, every sail upon her set, and every nerve upon her strung to its tightest.

This mysterious visitor was Bignolio (Matthew Maltboy), a rich money lender, uncle of Alberto, and commonly reported to be the "tightest old skinflint in Venice.

Thou forgettest, man, that a clumsy galliot could sail through the tightest clause, of these extra-legal compacts.

She wore spectacles set in tortoise-shell frames, and she wore her iron-gray hair straight back behind small, funnel-shaped ears, and gathered into the tightest knot behind.

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