Tight feeling

Usage examples of tension.

Scarcely had he done so, when the most curious sensation overcame him--a sensation of bewildering ecstasy as though he had drunk of some ambrosian nectar or magic drug which had suddenly wound up his nerves to an acute tension of indescribable delight.

Less inured to tough setbacks, too riled to accept the wormwood of defeat, the senior enchantress paced the shed in mincing steps and balked tension.

To tell it concisely, Yama had to miss out the fear and tension he had felt during every moment of his adventures, the long hours of discomfort when he had tried to sleep in wet clothes on the ftw of the banyan, his growing hunger and thirst while wandering the hot shaly land of the Silent Quarter of the City of the Dead.

He put renewed tension to the bowstring as she let out a noisy breath of frustration.

The braider continued knitting cable, but with the tension out, it began to ball.

Others had entered the hall whilst the two men were speakinga gaggle of clan maids wheeling a laundry barrow and two ancient oasters from the brewhouse who stank of yeastand all eased back against the walls, sensing the tension in the entryway as livestock sensed a storm.

These faculties impart tone to the system, sustain the processes of nutrition, circulation, assimilation, secretion and excretion, and their distinguishing characteristics are vigor, tension, and elasticity.

It carries the additional bonus of reducing tension and, if done on a regular basis, toughens the exerciser, making him more resilient and better able to handle stress.

But the internal tension created by petty-stateism was generating a centrifugal tendency within the European Empire, and extra-European forces were exploiting this tendency.

It was during those moments of high tension, with lives on the line and where any one decision could prove fatal, mat Lo Manto was most in control and in command.

Even greater was the tension on the Newfoundland coast, where Marconi sat eagerly waiting for the signal.

It parted as Marris reached it though the arrival of the Traveller did little to ease the tension and Marris kept close to him as they walked up to the Count.

If anybody but Mellie had spoken, Cashel would have thought there was tension in her voice.

Cappy was bent over the essay-type meteorology quiz, the tension throbbing in her temples.

Tension in Kelgarries, Tension in Ashe, Tension in Milliard, the big boss, muttering over there into a cell-phone.