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Examples
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Friends, what shall we do? think you we should enter the house, and loose the queen from the tight-drawn noose?
Hippolytus 2008
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Friends, what shall we do? think you we should enter the house, and loose the queen from the tight-drawn noose?
Hippolytus 2008
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What arts, what arguments have we, once we have made a slip, to loose by craft the tight-drawn knot?
Hippolytus 2008
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What arts, what arguments have we, once we have made a slip, to loose by craft the tight-drawn knot?
Hippolytus 2008
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In front of it a sagging woman with tight-drawn hair, and a baby bedraggled, smeary, glorious - eyed.
Main Street 2004
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Rosy cheeks, tight-drawn, close-shaven, and gleaming with friction of yellow soap, added vigor to the general expression of his face, which was firm and quick and straightforward.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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I was changed; the tight-drawn cord that sounded so harshly was loosened, the moment that Idris participated in my knowledge of our real situation.
The Last Man 2003
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The sufferer's face was long, mobile and passionate, with high cheekbones and hollow cheeks beneath them, and a mouth tight-drawn, either with present pain or constant passion.
The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984
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The creature was calm again, the gray-green eyes fully opened, the gray, tight-drawn face skin slightly less taut.
The Battle of Forever Van Vogt, A. E. 1971
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He was a lean, starved, haggard thing, all bones and tight-drawn sallow skin.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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