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
Begin a plain shuttle oval; 3 D join to the 3rd L of the last plain shuttle oval; 1 D, L, 3 D draw tight.
From The Bath Tatting Book by Anonymous
Begin an oval, 10 D join to the L before the beginning of the single stitches; 10 D draw tight, and tie round the foundation thread.
From The Bath Tatting Book by Anonymous
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.
