"Oh," thought Emily, clenching her hands, "I wish—I wish the bears that ate the naughty children in the Bible would come and eat you.
"But I promised Father I'd be brave," she whispered, clenching her little fists, "and I will.
She ate and drank eagerly, and sank back on her pillow again, clenching her hands and groaning.
In this fact, indeed, there lay the clenching motive to the purchase of Dorlcote Mill.
Nay, it may be held with intense satisfaction when the depth of our sinning is but a measure for the depth of forgiveness, and a clenching proof that we are peculiar instruments of the divine intention.
Assef's buttock muscles clenching and unclenching, his hips thrusting back and forth.
Sitting in a dark movie theater, leaning forward with your eyes fixed on the screen and hands clenching the edge of the seat, you hear the couple behind you "whisper": "Is that Matt Damon?
Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the HISPANIOLA was a clenching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time.
Instead of clenching my fist at new assignments, I will face them with joy and courage.
Instead of clenching my fist at new assignments, I will face them with joy and courage.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth.
