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Within months the neurological disorder focal dystonia took full hold, leaving his hand permanently clenched and unusable.
He is one of those honey-tongued types who can charm the molars out of your tightly clenched mouth.
As she panted towards her second floor apartment, she clenched her palms against the banisters, as she had done in the parlour.
And so, my skirt very swishy and my hands very clenched for some reason, I run, run like I am flying, back to the store of instruments.
His fists clenched tighter than they ever had, his arms clung close to his stomach in agony.
Kathleen's weak fingers that Mrs. Noble had forced down clenched into a shaking fist as her nails dug into the rough skin of her palm.
He was visibly nervous, with his hands clenched and his body rocking slowly from one side to the other.
One hand clenched into an agitated fist, Lain rubbed her temples wearily with the other.
Kane stood stock still for a moment, hands clenched into tight fists, shaking slightly in rage, before he carried on walking.
The slender fingers with long nails clenched into tightly squeezed fists, her pale hands starting to turn red.
Her fingers clenched into fists at her sides as the tears streamed down her face.
He wasn't at all surprised to see that her hands had been clenched into fists.
His fingers convulsively clenched into fists for an instant before he forced his tense muscles to relax.
Tahr lurched back until she was almost at the edge of the arena, her left hand clenched into a fist and tucked under her right arm.
He let out a small whimper but stood his ground, hands clenched into shaking fists.
His eyes danced with anger and he had his fingers clenched into a tight ball.
She's all but quivering in anger, her green eyes bright with anger and her hands clenched into small fists.
She ground out between her teeth, which were clenched together like twin traps of steel.
Then he fell back on the bed and tossed about as though he was in the throes of a poison, muttering through clenched teeth.
Jack the heroic doctor is tending to the terminally injured Marshal, who through clenched teeth is trying to tell him something about Kate.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A second bottle, with an inch of the amber fluid in it, stood just beyond his clenched fist.
They ground their teeth, they clenched their fists, they anathematised the name of Blemish.
Old Claus clenched his fist, and resolved that if he heard the sound of a blow, that fireboard would go down.
Before he could open it Callaghan struck him on the temple with his clenched fist.
Coming out of his fit of grief, he clenched his pocket-handkerchief once more.
Emma stretched out her right hand with its small fingers tightly clenched, and shook it at the beleaguering host.
He was constricting it in his hand and knocking his clenched knuckles on the marble.
At the sight of Nancy his jaw muscles clenched and his hand tightened on the pistol grip.
So she lay, dry-eyed, her whole body clenched, retched with sobs that would not come up.
Soames convulsively clenched his jaws, for his teeth were beginning to chatter.
Spillane groaned, and fiercely drove his clenched fist into the palm of the other hand.
As he clenched and drove his left home, bentwood came heavily to the ground.
Her hair was loose and over her eyes, her clenched hands all bloodied about her throat.
One instant he stood immovable, the Waler's bridle on his left arm, his right hand clenched upon the old hunting-crop.
He tries to draw it back, but it is clenched, and he has not the wisdom to unclench it.
As he faced the island again, Roman nose rose up to his full height and shook his clenched fist toward our entrenchment.
White and tense, her hands clenched, Rosamund seemed to stiffen before him.
Bartolomeo clenched his fists and struck them on the marble of the chimneypiece.
And he looked as if he would keep his word, as he clenched his hands with a wrathful spark in his eyes.
Bitterly, Marschner clenched his fist at this insatiableness.
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