All 26 Uses
taut
in
Native Son
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- A street car rumbled forward and the pigeon rose swiftly through the air on wings stretched so taut and sheer that Bigger could see the gold of the sun through their translucent tips.†
Book 1
- He grew hotter, tighter" his nerves were taut and his teeth were on edge.†
Book 1
- His entire body hungered for keen sensation, something exciting and violent to relieve the tautness.†
Book 1 *
- Then, like a taut bow finding release, he sprang to his feet, shaking loose from Bigger and turning to get away.†
Book 1
- He blinked his eyes from the bright sunshine" his nerves were so taut that he had difficulty in breathing.†
Book 1
- He had to do better than this" he relaxed his taut muscles and stood at ease, waiting.†
Book 1
- Filled with a sense of them, his muscles grew gradually taut.†
Book 1
- His muscles flexed taut as steel and he pressed the pillow, feeling the bed give slowly, evenly, but silently.†
Book 1
- With each of her movements toward the bed his body made a movement to match hers, away from her, his feet not lifting themselves from the floor, but sliding softly and silently over the smooth deep rug, his muscles flexed so taut they ached.†
Book 1
- He relaxed his taut muscles, feeling fear, remembering that he had killed Mary, had smothered her, had cut her head off and put her body in the fiery furnace.†
Book 2
- Bigger looked at him, his body as taut as that of an animal about to leap.†
Book 2
- He had his hand on the doorknob, waiting, his muscles taut.†
Book 2
- Bigger what's the matter I'm talking to you He did not answer" his nerves were taut with the hard effort to remember something.†
Book 2
- His body, despite the smoke and his burning eyes and heaving chest, was flexed taut.†
Book 2
- He was a long, taut piece of rubber which a thousand white hands had stretched to the snapping point, and when he snapped it was rape.†
Book 2
- Holding the paper in taut fingers, he read phrases: "Negro ordered to clean out ashes".†
Book 2
- The skin had a quality of taut anxiety and around the oval of white face was a framework of whiter hair.†
Book 3
- Again there was silence and Bigger's taut nerves ached to fill it up.†
Book 3
- His nerves were painfully taut as he hung onto the old woman's words.†
Book 3
- Now and then the room blurred and a slight giddiness came over him" but his muscles would flex taut and it would pass.†
Book 3
- He jerked back violently, his muscles flexed taut.†
Book 3
- Finally, his hot and taut body relaxed.†
Book 3
- He was not stoop-shouldered now, nor were his muscles taut.†
Book 3
- As he had felt when he stood over the bed with the white blur floating toward him" as he had felt when he had sat in the car between Jan and Mary" as he had felt when he had seen Gus coming through the door of Doc's poolroom"so he felt now: constricted, taut, in the grip of a powerful, impelling fear.†
Book 3
- The nerves of his stomach were so taut that he could only drink the coffee.†
Book 3
- "this new adversary did not make him taut" it sapped strength and left him weak.†
Book 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(taut) pulled or drawn tight;
or: subjected to great tension - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)