He sat there all night, with his fists clenched, as if keeping guard against an unseen foe.
She clenched her cold hands and tried to stop trembling.
" said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched; and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile.
" I cried with clenched hands.
I vainly reminded him of his protracted abstinence from food: if he stirred to touch anything in compliance with my entreaties, if he stretched his hand out to get a piece of bread, his fingers clenched before they reached it, and remained on the table, forgetful of their aim.
He had not only twitched his shoulder but clenched his fist, as if tempted to use it.
' "He swore at us, and left Linton no time to answer, nearly throwing him into the kitchen; and he clenched his fist as I followed, seemingly longing to knock me down.
This was worse than before: the youth grew crimson, and clenched his fist, with every appearance of a meditated assault.
" Then he clenched his hand suddenly and turned on her.
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!
