vise

Her cold, thin fingers wrapped around my jaw like a Vise-Grip.

Their world is changing—has already changed, really—in the vise of the economy and new technology.

He flung himself forward, and catching her upper arms in the grip of a vise shook her until her teeth clacked together.

I grabbed hold of the vise-locking screw to keep my knees from doubling under me.

There is a sharp sting in my tongue, my jaws are gripped as by a vise, and my mouth is torn open.

He strove desperately, but each effort only wedged him more firmly in the awful vise.

A serviceable and inexpensive bench vise can be made in the following manner: Procure a piece of hard wood, 1 in.