Presently, with an odour of cooking, the Frau Professor came in, a short, very stout woman with
tightly dressed hair and a red face; she had little eyes, sparkling like beads, and an effusive manner.
As he passed through the opening, the front sight of the rifle caught upon the edge of the inswung door with sufficient force to close it
tightly after the fleeing ape.
Dressed as she was in riding breeches with no entangling skirts to hinder or catch upon passing shrubbery, she soon found that she could cling
tightly to the back of the mighty bull and when a moment later he took to the lower branches of the trees, she closed her eyes and clung to him in terror lest she be precipitated to the ground below.
And I held her
tightly while I called Nobs and bade him lie down at her back.
Then, drawing his worn narrow girdle round him, he drew in his breath, pulling in his lean stomach still more, and girdled himself as
tightly as he could over his sheepskin.
She crouched in a sheltering way over her baby (which clung
tightly to her), and made pleading signs and sounds to the Fire-Men.
The Frog, one day intent on mischief, bound the foot of the Mouse
tightly to his own.
A YOUNG Ostrich came to its Mother, groaning with pain and with its wings
tightly crossed upon its stomach.
One hand he held
tightly against his side, and behind him he left a bloody trail.
She faced the doorway of a room, shut her eyes
tightly, and then, thrusting aside the heavy draperies, she advanced blindly with her right arm outstretched before her.
The skin roof, stretched
tightly as a drumhead, I had thought, sagged and bellied with every gust; and innumerable interstices in the walls, not so
tightly stuffed with moss as Maud had supposed, disclosed themselves.
The brown face was leaner, the skin drawn
tightly across the cheekbones.
