All 8 Uses
taut
in
Invisible Man, by Ellison
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- The dozen white-gloved hands waiting taut upon the silken ropes.†
Chpt 5 *
- One wall was almost covered by a huge colored map, from which narrow red silk ribbons stretched tautly from each division of the map to a series of ebony pedestals, upon which sat glass specimen jars containing natural products of the various countries.†
Chpt 9
- I looked silently into his face, taut and ashy in the cold, his eyes trained upon the men going up the steps.†
Chpt 13
- And now close up, leaning tall and relaxed, his arms outstretched stiffly upon the table, I saw the broad, taut span of his knuckles upon the dark grain of the wood, the muscular, sweatered arms, the curving line of the chest rising to the easy pulsing of his throat, to the square, smooth chin, and saw a small X-shaped patch of adhesive upon the subtly blended, velvet-over-stone, granite-over-bone, Afro-Anglo-Saxon contour of his cheek.†
Chpt 17
- He struck the conference table with his fist, his eyes showing small and round in his taut face.†
Chpt 18
- And in the mirrored instant I saw myself standing between her eager form and a huge white bed, myself caught in a guilty stance, my face taut, tie dangling; and behind the bed another mirror which now like a surge of the sea tossed our images back and forth, back and forth, furiously multiplying the time and the place and the circumstance.†
Chpt 19
- I slipped it over my finger and stood stretching it taut.†
Chpt 21
- She lay aggressively receptive, flushed, her navel no goblet but a pit in an earth-quaking land, flexing taut and expansive.†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(taut) pulled or drawn tight;
or: subjected to great tension - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)