And now, in the pause after his last sentence, he suddenly lurched as if some taut cord within him snapped.

Dalgard saw that gesture and inside him some taut cord began to unwind.

It yielded a little and then like taut cords hurled them back once more.

He began to pluck out some kind of message on the taut cords.

For the first time, unmistakably, there was a taut cord of tension in his voice.

Both men suddenly staggered apart, as if a taut cord had been cut.

The veins in Jup's neck were standing out like taut cords.

Will you stop calling me son88Jack bowed forward to prevent the taut cord from hauling the base of the phone off the table.

Thus she tried to cut that too taut cord between us.