draw tight
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Helen Sung/Benny Green On two different new trio records, two jazz pianists in early middle age with fluent and streamlined styles draw tight lines around jazz from the 1940s to the ’60s.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2011
On the Chicago podium, he transfixed listeners, seemingly verging on levitation in his energetic efforts to draw tight phrasing and brilliant coloration from his musicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not until the boys got up to go to work did the family bond draw tight enough to show.
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.
Did his nerves draw tight, and his muscles, too, waiting for the idea behind these perambulations to emerge?
From Mary Wollaston by Webster, Henry Kitchell
He loses his self-command, and knows not what to do, whether to draw tight the reins or throw them loose; he forgets the names of the horses.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Bulfinch, Thomas
