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We were off the road, gleaming barbed wire pulling taut.

But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.

He wondered if it wore the old anxiety, or the old, taut stoicism.

to this he glued and fitted other pieces of paper and four taut strings, thus creating a sequence of flat surfaces in real and sculptural space to which there clung only the vestige of a picture plane.

Docherty went taut: was it possible??

His head undulated gradually, covering space, to come straining beneath the taut belly within the warmth of those teats.

Standing there she saw Shades of Night come through the trees and stop beside the lodge, silent, almost imperious, her body taut, simply standing without speaking or moving while the wife of Walitzee waited, perhaps denying the dread that moved in her.

He saw himself in a superior reflection, and he was as a speeding arrow from the taut bow, hurtling with a mad grace, his maleness shining and scented with meadow rue.

Christie's stories are also known for their taut atmosphere and strong psychological suspense, developed from the deliberately slow pace of her prose.

A string tied at each end to the two pins and the tip of a pen is used to pull the loop taut so as to form a triangle.

The tip of the pen will then trace an ellipse if it is moved while keeping the string taut.

The skin under your lower lip will be taut with no air pocket.

Hemoglobin exists in two forms, a taut form ( T ) and a relaxed form ( R ).

Various factors such as low pH, high CO < sub > 2 </ sub > and high 2, 3 BPG at the level of the tissues favor the taut form, which has low oxygen affinity and releases oxygen in the tissues.

The body is hollow and when a taut string is plucked, the body resonates, projecting sound both inward towards the harp player through a series of usually oval openings ( whose principal purpose is to allow access to the strings and only secondarily to enhance resonance ) and, much more importantly and powerfully, outward through the flexible and taut-strung sounding board.

Upward centrifugal force from the Earth's rotation ensures that the cable remains stretched taut, fully countering the downward gravitational pull.

A ship is said to be on a " taut bowline " when these lines are made as taut as possible in order to sail close-hauled to the wind.

When rubber is stretched, the " loose pieces of rope " are taut and thus no longer able to oscillate.

With the other hand form a small loop in the remaining section and draw it over the U-bend so that the loop forms a half hitch and stays there if the free end of the rope is pulled taut.

* Reach through the outer two loops and grab either side of the middle loop and pull outward while also keeping the rest of the rope slightly taut.

are pulled taut then the knot remains secure.

The meter movement in a moving pointer analog multimeter is practically always a moving-coil galvanometer of the d ' Arsonval type, using either jeweled pivots or taut bands to support the moving coil.

When the set is a nonempty finite subset of the plane ( that is, two-dimensional ), we may imagine stretching a rubber band so that it surrounds the entire set and then releasing it, allowing it to contract ; when it becomes taut, it encloses the convex hull of.

The bond wires are not usually taut but loop upward slightly to allow slack for thermal expansion and contraction of the materials ; if a single bond wire breaks or detaches, the entire IC may become useless.