...Numa's roar still reverberated along taut nerves when a woman's laugh,shrill and piercing, shattered the silence of the village...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
... She had passedthrough much this night and her nerves were keyed to the highestpitch—raw, taut nerves, they were, ready to react in an exaggeratedform to the slightest shock...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Terrible」
...The “Boiler-plate” looked very foolish in an old Yale rowing shirt, with the “Y” stretched taut across his ponderous chest...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...“The net being now quite taut along the lower surface of the ice, must of course completely cover the hole in the ‘floor...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...Keep the line gently taut, and softly lead the prize out of roughwater or away from stones, grasses, logs, or tree branches...
Charles Bradford 「The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout」
...Give him line, but keep it taut (not tight), and don't becomeexcited...
Charles Bradford 「The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout」
...Before he knew what washappening it had slithered down over his arms and drawn taut justabove the elbows, and he was yanked powerfully backwards and almostfell...
Various 「Astounding Stories, April, 1931」
...His muscles went taut...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
...Atany second he might be greeted by a salvo of bullets, and every fiberof his lean body was taut...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
...he taut, menacing figure in armor relaxed and, with a gentle clank ofaccoutrement, Hero Giles resumed his seat...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
..."In here? But where are we?" demanded Dick, trying to pass his handacross his aching forehead, and realizing that the chain, though itseemed fastened to nothing, was perfectly taut...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930」
...They were echoing within his brain and harshly at his taut nerves as hemade his slow way toward the passage through which he had come...
Charles Willard Diffin 「Brood of the Dark Moon」
...His head jerked up, he strained againstthe taut, strong fibers binding him...
Arthur Leo Zagat 「The Great Dome on Mercury」
...The logs began to loosen, and although the onward motion of the boat kept the chain taut, when the rowers slackened their exertions the mass parted, and Mr...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
...The otherend, being on board, was hove taut...
Louis Becke 「The Naval Pioneers of Australia and Walter Jeffery」
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