Grief and jealousy and rage seized him, and he cried out hoarsely; he was inarticulate; he clenched his fists and raised them threateningly at an invisible enemy.
" I clenched my hands, seeking to control my irritation.
Oh"—she clenched her thin hands—"to think that we ought to be so happy now, here on the very station, actually starting, and we're not, and it's being spoilt for us just simply because we've spoilt them!
Rachel undauntedly, head up, eyes blazing, hands clenched, passionate indignation exhaling from her like an atmosphere.
It was afterwards whispered among them that on the first night he wore this suit he sat long in the cabin with Hook's cigar-holder in his mouth and one hand clenched, all but for the forefinger, which he bent and held threateningly aloft like a hook.
My hands were so tightly clenched that my finger nails bit into the flesh.
The rabbis of old put it this way: "A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.
Her brother followed, one hand still clenched hard around his sword hilt.
Dany noticed that her brother's hand was clenched tightly around the hilt of his borrowed sword.
He was overweight, afflicted with tics and health problems, and so tightly wound that he wandered the halls with clenched fists.
To her great surprise, the poor old man was there sitting on the floor, his teeth clenched and his right hand bleeding!
—‧ You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Entries include air-punching - the action of thrusting a clenched fist into the air in elation or triumph - and bovver - part of the catchphrase of comedian Catherine Tate's teenage character Lauren.
Screaming through my clenched teeth.
The rabbis of old put it this way: "A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.
UNCOOKED PASTA: CLENCHED FIST : This might look small, but pasta doubles in weight once cooked, as it absorbs water.
After a while, with his teeth clenched to endure the pain, he gouged out a piece of flesh from his thigh to conceal the pearl there.
To her great surprise,the poor old man was there sitting on the floor,his teeth clenched and his right hand bleeding!
" A fist clenched inside me with those words.
Baba never said so, but I knew he saw my car sickness as yet another of my array of weakness--I saw it on his embarrassed face the couple of times my stomach had clenched so badly I had moaned.
