She threw back her head and clung with all her strength to the rough lariat, stretched taut as a cable of steel.

Implanting an impassioned kiss upon those lovely lips, which had so long yearned for a husband's embrace, he adroitly threw the rope round his wife's neck, and pulling it taut in a wild access of rage, he strangled herholding on until her struggles ceased!

I looked at Shalah, who stood by the gate, every sinew in his body taut with expectation.

Instantly he sent the canoe into midstream, swung it quickly down with the current, and began to paddle enough to keep the babiche taut about his victim's neck.

Immediately we heard Croz's exclamation, old Peter and I planted ourselves as firmly as the rocks would permit; the rope was taut between us, and the jerk came on us both as one man.

Again, she would fetch up taut on her hawsers so suddenly and so fiercely as to reel from the shock and to groan and protest through every timber.

One end of the rope had been pulled taut over a beam by his tormentors.

Trackless as a desert was the prairie, minus even the buffalo trails of a quarter century before; yet with the sun only as guide, they forged ahead, straight as a line drawn taut from point to point.

" She ran badly, her ankles in their low, loose shoes continually turning, her arms held taut at her sides.

it's bent out taut like a bow, you can see it against the snow, and they're bending themselves more than forty-five degrees to meet it.

Davis drew the rope taut under the cinch and tied Jack's other ankle as if he were putting the diamond hitch on a pack mule.

Take the exposed guys and draw them taut across each other, turn bundle over on the under guy, cross guys on top of bundle, drawing tight.

This parallelism is obtained by means of a weak steel spring, or of a silken thread passing over the four wheels, the two first of which (the gear-wheels) hold it taut by means of a barrel and spring placed in the center of one of them.

They ran the barbed wire with a tackle, stringing it taut down the long line of bare posts that twinkled away to dots in the west.