tautly

His mouth was set tautly, but he said nothing, also.

As they began to clear he too peered tautly forward.

It began to race tautly over the ground behind the speeding car.

It looked as if the skin were pulled tautly over a wire form.

He turned to his father again, said tautly, "Help me.

Even when her dreams come true, she remains tautly self-contained.

Tautly she said, "Keep an eye on her, the way you've been doing.

It was there always like a steel band drawn tautly around her mind.

Tautly, almost shrilly, as though I were getting on his nerves.

Amazingly, with so little solid matter, it tautly holds the eye.

His mind was sensitive beyond all human possibility; and he waited tautly with her for the answer.

Her nerves were wound so tautly she could have screamed.

At one point, they formed a tautly held chain.

Hell, the whole man was tautly encased in black leather!

A thin wire had been stretched tautly across the doorway.

Her process begins by stretching the silk tautly onto a frame.

"It is my name," the young woman said tautly.

"All right," he said tautly "Let's get this over with."

The arms displayed were tautly muscular, veins close to the skin.

One caught at her hair, pulling it tautly from her head.

Her body was tautly drawn up as she gulped at precious air.

I had to go for the body,' she said tautly. '

"It should be enough to fire the trigger-tube," he said tautly.

Fox held herself tautly controlled, turning again and leaving, closing the door behind her.

She was staring tautly at her own reflection, as at a death's head.