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Updated: May 8, 2025
I don't mean robbing mails, and KluKluxing, and that sort of thing; but defending the settlers, or hanging some scamp, or even shooting a few, as a fellow must sometimes, in self-defence. Ah, ha! I've hit it, I see. Needn't speak; I know the flash of your old eye, and the clench of your big fist. And Ted pranced with satisfaction.
Again the sergeant-major had to clench his teeth; he passed silently along, shaking the hands that were stretched out to him. Suddenly he stopped in astonishment, thinking he must be mistaken.
There were moments when a sudden contraction of the muscles would clench his hands and give a spasmodic jerk to his shoulders. He was waiting uneasily, uncomfortably, until darkness should come. "Eat," he cried "eat, my friends," playing with his own barely tasted food. And then, at a sentence from Lemerre, his knife and fork clattered on his plate, and he sat with a face suddenly grown white.
Yet only by such half-hints Why, what was that? I think I saw something!" Even as she uttered the words, a terrible jar ran fiercely through the ship from stem to stern a jar that made one clench one's teeth and hold one's jaws tight the jar of a prow that shattered against a rock. I took it all in at a glance. We had forgotten Ushant, but Ushant had not forgotten us.
Do a good hard clench she's yours at last; she just naturally sags right down on to you. You've got her. "Do a regular Parmalee. Take your time. You're going to kiss her and kiss her right.
This is well illustrated in the case of the arm. Extend the arm and clench the fist; then contract all the muscles of the arm, about as the athlete does to display his muscular development. You will notice that the arm becomes stiff and tense. This state of tension is commonly called "muscular stiffness," but the term is open to objection.
Similarly with sorrow or joy or anger. Take the latter emotion; imagine yourself angry, immediately the jaw becomes set and the lips draw back in a semi-snarl, the fists clench and the muscles tighten, while the head and body are thrust forward in what is, as Darwin pointed out, the preparation for pouncing on the foe.
"Steamers are no rarities in Long Island Sound, Clench," observed the captain, levelling his glass at the most suspected of the smokes. "That must be a Providence, or Stonington chap, coming west with the Boston train." "Either of them would have been further west, by this time, Captain Spike," returned the doubting, but watchful boatswain.
I wished I could transfer the case to the old turf, where there is more joy in being defeated than there is in winning in England; for I have seen the opposing lawyers rise from the most gentlemanly and elegant language you ever heard to a heated debate; then fling books at each other, and finally clench, while the judge stood up and saw fair play.
"You're pretty thick with her yourself, aren't you?" "I happen to live at the Boyd house." He was keeping himself well under control, but Akers saw his hand clench, and resorted to other tactics. He was not angry himself, but he was wary now; he considered that life was unnecessarily complicated, and that he had a distinct grievance. "I have asked you a question, Mr. Akers."
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