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

Then a net of rough-fibered rope was flung about him, and he felt it draw tight as the winged beasts lifted him up and out into the void.

From The Finding of Haldgren by Diffin, Charles Willard

Did his nerves draw tight, and his muscles, too, waiting for the idea behind these perambulations to emerge?

From Mary Wollaston by Webster, Henry Kitchell

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