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They answered him with frantic cheers, swearing and vowing that they would stand by him to the bitter end; and then, everything having been done that could be done, in perfect silence the taut frigate boldly approached her massive enemy. The Prisoners on the Yarmouth It is usually not difficult for an individual to define the conditions of happiness.
In the radiant moonlight I saw the lithe muscles of the Jaguar grow taut and stiff, and I felt rather than saw his long, strong hands clench themselves.
He sat up, pushing the towel away, buried his face in his hands for a few seconds, then looked over the fingers at the two of them. "I've been living in a nightmare for the last week," he said in a taut small voice, "knowing the thing had come alive and trying to pretend to myself that it hadn't. Knowing it was taking charge of me more and more.
Leonora began to walk up and down the apartment, taut and strained, as if her feet were not moving at all, as if she were being thrust about by an invisible hand. "Beppa," she groaned finally, "he has gone. He is deserting me." The maid did not care about the desertion particularly. She had been through that before.
The doubled mainsail was then strained taut across the boat, and its edges tucked underneath the fore- and-aft lines outside the boat; the foresail was treated in the same way, but with its fore edge overlapped by about a foot of the after edge of the mainsail.
It remained poised for a fraction of time over the upturned face of the man lying in a position of disadvantage. Then it lunged downwards. And as it descended, a sound like the clipping of teeth came back to the taut strung senses of the onlookers. A sigh escaped from a hundred throats. "Bull missed it that time." Abe Kristin whispered his comment.
"I jes' taut I'd drap in, Kurnel, but didn't speck ter fin' yer sleep," said he, wincing under the Mayor's abstracted gaze. "Oh, I don' want nut'n; don' make er scratch on dat paper. I ain't beggin'," he exclaimed, as the Mayor, recovering, reached for his pen. "That's so Guy; you needn't be a beggar as long as the white people own a crust," he answered, settling back in his chair again.
Feeling that it would be a welcome change in the conversation, Brace walked with him to where they could get a good view of Captain Banes's brig, whose taut rigging and shapely sides began to show plainly now in the early morning, a flash of sunlight seeming to have fallen just beneath the bows on the head of the white painted figurehead beneath the bowsprit; but it proved to be only the gilded Phrygian cap which the carvers had formed, while as they walked up, admiring the trimness of the well-kept vessel the while, there was another gleam of sunlight, but only on the gilt name "Jason."
The long tail stiffened, whacked first to one side, then to the other. The moment was at hand. Kingozi stood erect, his hands clenched, every muscle taut. All his senses were sharpened. He heard the voices of the veldt, near and far, and all the little sounds that were underneath them.
"My friends," said the novice to the five blacks, "do as I tell you, and all will go right." Dick Sand was standing at the wheel of the helm. "Go!" cried he. "Tom, let go that rope quickly!" "Let go?" said Tom, who did not understand that expression. "Yes, loosen it! Now you, Bat the same thing! Good! Heave haul taut. Let us see, pull it in!" "Like that?" said Bat. "Yes, like that. Very good.
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