Hence, too, the great utility of hot baths in all affections of the lungs or diseases of the skin; and the reason why exposure to cold or wet is, in nearly all cases, followed by tightness of the chest, sore throat, difficulty of breathing, and cough.

As Undine re-read her mother's pages, she felt an unusual tightness in her throat and two tears rose to her eyes.

"It certainly is," replied Lenore, and she felt a tightness at her throat.

The flannel skirt she arranged so complacently had been washed until the colors had run madly into each other in sheer desperation; her hair was knotted with a relentless tightness into a comb such as old women wear.

So, as I turned back at the garden gate to watch the long grey line winding slowly into the forest, I found that I had the same chill down my back and the same tightness over my eyes and in my throat, which, in the real theatre-goers, announce that an effect has "gone home.

Suddenly the lasso flies in snaky coils over the head of the beast, and is drawn with strangulating tightness about its neck.

There is a coppery taste experienced in the act of swallowing, with a burning heat, extending from the top of the throat down to the stomach; and also a feeling of great tightness round the throat.

The very idea gives me a tightness across the chest.

This depends on the length of cords and their tightness for the shorter and tighter a string is, the higher is the note which its vibration produces.