Then, fast as warriors grip their brands
When battle's bolt is hurled,
They close, clenched hard like tightening bands.英文原著 · 《A Century of Roundels》
Upon this morning which proved eventful to her, she had gone to the stables, as was her daily custom, and going into the stall where the big black horse was wont to stand, she found it empty. Her spirit rose hot within her in the moment. She clenched her fists, and began to stamp and swear in such a manner as it would be scarce fitting to record.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"I have gone mad," she said. "What is it I do?" She passed her hand across her brow and laughed a little wild laugh. "Yes," she said; "this it is to be a woman--to turn weak and run to other women--and weep and talk. Yes, by these signs I AM a woman!" She stood with her clenched hands pressed against her breast. "In any fair fight," she said, "I could have struck back blow for blow--and mine would have been the heaviest; but being changed into a woman, my arms are taken from me. He who strikes, aims at my bared breast- -and that he knows and triumphs in."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
She said the words through her clenched teeth, and with all the mad passion of her most lawless years; even at Anne she looked almost in the old ungentle fashion, as though half scorning all weaker than herself, and having small patience with them.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"But he CAN not," she said, within her clenched teeth, again and again--"THAT he cannot."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
Sara stood in the middle of the room in the darkness. She was clenching her little teeth and opening and shutting fiercely her outstretched hands. She could scarcely stand still, but she dared not move until Miss Minchin had gone down the stairs and all was still.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
I usually wave at him with my arm clenched, 'cause I'm hiding his wallet in it.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
No, sir. No, I will comport myself as you have taught me. with dry eyes and an ass clenched tighter than Steve Reeves on a busman's holiday.美剧 · 《Billions》