" "You'll do nothing of the kind, any of you," broke in Mrs. Gilligan, with that slight tightening of her upper lip that the girls and boys had come to knowand respect.

Again the man's hand tightened on the trigger, but he never fired again.

Her head was up, and her hand, where it hooked into Mr. Batch's elbow, was in a vise that tightened with each block.

A youth, thewed like an ox, surmounted on a stack of three self provided canned-goods boxes, his in-at-the-waist silhouette thrown out against a sky that was almost ready to break out in stars; a crowd tightening about him.

The child stirred in her sleep, and her arms tightened around his neck.

But now of a sudden and as one that dreamed, he beheld a tender face above him with sad-sweet eyes and lips that bent to kiss his brow, felt soft arms about himtender arms that drew his weary head upon a gentle bosom to hide and pillow it there; felt that enfolding embrace tighten and tighten in sudden shuddering spasm, as, sighing, the lady Abbess's white-clad arms fell away and her proud head sank beside his in the dust.

" I turned cold under the blow, but Washington did not move a muscle, only his mouth seemed to tighten at the corners.

There was a strained look about her eyes, a tightening at the corners of the mouth.

Then the mainsail came down on the run, and was furled and fastened by the time she had tightened to her double hawsers.

There was an irregular trembling of the boat as the anchor struggled along the bottom of the canal; then there was a great shock; the boat ran into the bank and stopped; the tow-line was tightened like a guitar-string, and the horse, jerked back with great violence, came tumbling in a heap upon the ground.

"Oh, boy," she said"Edwin!"holding to his forearm with fingers that tightened into it.

she asked slowly, and as if her chest tightened over the words.

There are in the first place cross-chains, tightening under pressure, which may be drawn across the bows of a ship that threatens to become unmanageable.

His hand tightened for a moment upon hers.

The consequence was that it would plunge downward almost as though making a sheer drop; the noose tightening about the leg or legs of the unhappy wight who had sprung the trap, he would be jerked off his feet and hauled up, head downward, to dangle there in midair, as helpless as a babe.

" Gray turned and looked into the flushed, tremulous face beside him with a sudden tightening in his throat.

For baby's sake I wish we'd gone too; but now,"her arms crept around his neck, closed,"but nownow it's too late!" For a long minute, and another, the man did not stir but involuntarily his arms had tightened until, had she wished, the woman could not have turned.

If I let the rope tighten between me and Petrak, Thirkle prodded me with the point of a knife, and, as I was faint with hunger and thirst, and utterly worn out, I frequently stumbled and fell, when they both set upon me and beat me to my feet.

In the course of fifteen or twenty minutes we noticed that the flappings of the canvas were getting shorter and shorter, and that it seemed to be tightening across our bodies, and upon making an effort to get out we found that we were fastened down.

She made a sharp movement to free herself, and the blush she had so valiantly resisted flamed over face and neck as she felt his hold tighten as sharply, and heard him laugh at her impotence.

But there is hardly a screw or nut on a new automobile that will not require tightening after a little hard usage; this is quite in the nature of things, and not a fault.

'All of them,' cried the envoy, as the cord tightened round the Marshal's neck.

The victim is seated on a scaffold, his head leaning against a beam and his neck grasped by an iron collar, which the executioner suddenly tightens from behind by means of a screw.

"It was accidently broken at our last Camp Fire meeting," answered Hinpoha, with a tightening around her heart when she thought of that last happy gathering.