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
Back the end around the standing part and up through the bight and draw tight.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
Begin a figured shuttle oval, 3 D join to the 1st L of the last round of the Rosette; 3 D draw tight and tie to its foundation thread.
From The Bath Tatting Book by Anonymous
To-day she kept things going, and sang a lot, but nearly every time you looked at her you could see her lips draw tight, a frown cross her forehead, and her head shake.
From Laddie; a true blue story by Gene Stratton-Porter
