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Definition of the day : « tautness »
- As in strain : noun pain, due to exertion
- As in stress : noun physical or mental pressure
- As in tension : noun tightness
- As in firmness : noun immovability
- His sudden face went from the tautness of his last speech to fear.
- Extract from : « Captives of the Flame » by Samuel R. Delany
- Parish Thornton was breathing his words through lips that scarcely moved as he bent forward with the tautness of a coiled spring.
- Extract from : « The Roof Tree » by Charles Neville Buck
- She felt again the muscles of his forearms snap into tautness as he stood silent under her father's insults.
- Extract from : « The Tyranny of Weakness » by Charles Neville Buck
- Conscious of the tautness of his own nerves, strung like quivering violin strings.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories, February, 1931 » by Various
- To me, strung up to a tautness of sensation that almost frightens me, this silence of the Mate is horrible.
- Extract from : « An Ocean Tramp » by William McFee
- The mother gave a sigh of relief, but she did not interrupt, nor did she relax the tautness of her body.
- Extract from : « Kennedy Square » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- Braceway was amazed by the intensity of Bristow's glance, the tautness of his body, the harsh authority in his voice.
- Extract from : « The Winning Clue » by James Hay, Jr.
- The stranger was a large schooner, and the tautness of the spars and rigging showed that she was in beautiful order.
- Extract from : « With Clive in India » by G. A. Henty
- Claire was conscious of tautness of the cords of her neck in front; of a pain at the base of her brain.
- Extract from : « Free Air » by Sinclair Lewis
- All at once the tautness went out of her, and Sira leaned against the wall, divided between laughing and crying.
- Extract from : « The Martian Cabal » by Roman Frederick Starzl