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clench a device that grasps or grips, such as a clamp How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Shrouded in thick melancholy, and eager for the little casualties that bring death: thus do they wait, and clench their teeth. I flung aside a crib of Horace I had been reading, and began to clench my fists, to bite my lips, and to pace the room. In writhing, with her head on the chair, she turned her face towards the door, and Mrs Brooks could see the pain upon it; and that her lips were bleeding from the clench of her teeth upon them, and that the long lashes of her closed eyes stuck in wet tags to her cheeks. |
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