What is "vicelike"

Usage examples of "vicelike".

He barely felt the vicelike jaws close over his arm, jerking him roughly through the sea.

She locked her legs inside the rim of the barrel and clamped her hands vicelike on its rim for further support.

The seaman had squeezed next to Farris and held him in a vicelike grip around the waist.

They are an entirely different species and somewhat resemble tiny crabs, especially their vicelike claws.

The rank of Chief Overseer put all real power firmly in the vicelike grip of her massive hands.

Raising his hand to his face, he began to call his sorcery but the effort was cut short when the mist evaporated and rough hands griped his wrists in a vicelike hold.

You will be laced with cruel force into vicelike corsets of soft dove coutille with whalebone busk to the diamondtrimmed pelvis, the absolute outside edge, while your figure, plumper than when at large, will be restrained in nettight frocks, pretty two ounce petticoats and fringes and things stamped, of course, with my houseflag, creations of lovely lingerie for Alice and nice scent for Alice.

He coughed again and a lurking headache tightened a vicelike grip around his temples.

A giant arm fell vicelike around his neck, clawing fingers tore at his face, his kidneys were being hammered by a vicious, powerful fist.

Before she could succeed, her right wrist was seized in a vicelike grip that nearly stopped the flow of blood in her hand.

His hand, twisted into a claw, groped its way upwards and clutched his forehead in a vicelike grip.

And each time as their talk wound down she would find some reason to reach out and touch him, hold his shoulder, and he would clasp her arm in his vicelike grip, quivering with energy, as if his internal dynamo was spinning so fast he could barely hold himself together.

The hull rolled onto her swim fin, trapping it and her toes in a vicelike grip.