Слово "tight". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

The next incident, if I may put it so, occurred about a week later, when Partridge, her lips set tightly together, informed me that Beatrice, the daily help, would not be coming today.

Tighter than ever.

His arm-muscles not being frozen enabled him to press the hand-heels tightly against the matches.

The man with the tight, cold face smiled frostily at me.

He looked at the windows for a long time, face tight, teeth clenched together.

When he came down the steps at last the tanned skin was drawn unusually tight on his face, and his eyes were bright and tired.

He tore a long strip from one of his two blankets and bound the ankle tightly. He tore other strips and bound them about his feet to serve for both moccasins and socks. Then he drank the pot of water, steaming hot, wound his watch, and crawled between his blankets.

...in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place

“Because,” he said, “I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.

His sunken eyes glittered with a kindly but ironic good-humour. Now passed a guard in the romantic cloak of a brigand in comic opera and a peaked cap like that of an _alguacil_. A group of telegraph boys in blue stood round a painter, who was making a sketch--notwithstanding half-frozen fingers. Here and there, in baggy corduroys, tight jackets, and wide-brimmed hats, strolled students who might have stepped from the page of Murger's immortal romance. But the students now are uneasy with the fear of ridicule, and more often they walk in bowler hats and the neat coats of the _boulevardier_.

She described to him, almost as though she had seen or felt it, the stiffening of Katharine's body as soon as he touched her, the way in which she still seemed to be pushing him from her with all her strength, even when her arms were clasped tightly round him.

A tight-fitting little black coat and skirt, white satin blouse, small chic black toque perched at the fashionable outrageous angle.

"If my friend would undertake it there is no man who is better worth having at your side when you are in a tight place. No one can say so more confidently than I."

Our instincts are to hold even more tightly

It is understood by my client that your reputation is that of a good man in a tight place.

The father was respectable and tight, a mortgage fancier and a stern, upright collection-plate passer and forecloser.

Circle City was not deserted, nor was money tight.

‘And drink — no one minds a man getting tight once or twice a term.

The only time I got tight I was paralysed all the next day.

So me and the duke went up to the village, and hunted around there for the king, and by and by we found him in the back room of a little low doggery, very tight, and a lot of loafers bullyragging him for sport, and he a-cussing and a-threatening with all his might, and so tight he couldn’t walk, and couldn’t do nothing to them.

Sometimes it’s a wife visiting there on high heels with her purse held tight over her belly.

When Dorothy pres-ently asked him a question the Tin Woodman could not open his mouth, for his jaws were tightly rusted together.

Bear began to sigh, and then found he couldn't because he was so tightly stuck; and a tear rolled down his eye, as he said:

However, this delight soon ceased: from an inner passage of the restaurant three men, their waists drawn in tightly by belts, wearing leggings and holding revolvers in their hands, strode precipitously on to the veranda.

With the blockade closing tighter and tighter, there was no way to get the South’s money crop to its market in England, no way to bring in the necessaries which cotton money had brought in years gone by.

I had to cling tight to the backstay, and the world turned giddily before my eyes, for though I was a good enough sailor when there was way on, this standing still and being rolled about like a bottle was a thing I never learned to stand without a qualm or so, above all in the morning, on an empty stomach.

The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism.

He crouched down under the impending blow, his hair bristling, but his teeth still keeping tight hold of the rabbit.

I came very near to falling on my last hunt—very near indeed—and the noise of my slipping, for my tail was not tight wrapped around the tree, waked the Bandar-log, and they called me most evil names."