What is "tautness"

Usage examples of "tautness".

He ascended the wall and stood for a long while at the window of his pavilion, staring out into the bleakness of the southern plains, until his mind was utterly void of thought and his aching body had yielded up some of the tautness of its tense muscles.

A throaty groan escaped his lips, and Merissa cuddled closer, pushing against him, grinding her gentle curves into the tautness of his thighs and groin.

The thing that hung from the mainmast moved quickly in response, leaping through the rigging, changing the set of the sail, the tautness of the radian draws, and thereby the direction of the airship.

Taking down his bodhran with his free hand and flicking a finger against the drum head to check the tautness, he explained briefly the tradition of the fiery cross.

Heavy black hair covered his chest and narrowed into a silkier pelt over the muscled tautness of his abdomen.

A compressed tautness laced through the conversations about Janskys of measurement and arc-seconds of resolution, technical terms freighted with a gathering sense of storm.

One of them, a very lovely young woman (she couldn't have been more than seventeen, to judge by the tautness of her skin) was bare-breasted, her brunette hair wet and pressed to her skull.

He lay on his own, immaculate bed, which he carefully made each morning out of habit from many years on the Enterprise (under his mother's critical gaze: Starfleet tautness and hospital corners--the worst of both worlds).

Chief Howes said, his easygoing voice gaining an uncharacteristic tautness.

The sen’ein who drew the sled on which the Pana rested stopped it before her, and Hlil watched with a tautness in his throat as she lifted her eyes from that to him.

Like almost all Pures, she was slim, with a softness to her flesh rather than a tautness of musculature.

His olóltin sac swelled to the size and tautness of a tlachtli ball, and his engorged tepúli bulged to a length and thickness bigger than my forearm.