draw tight
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
But could I like Montgomeries fight, Or gab like Boswell, There’s some sark-necks I wad draw tight, An’ tie some hose well.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
