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We got up, an' I'd a-fallen, only I clenched an' held myself up by him.

In desperation Philip clenched his fist and hit the boy who tormented him, but he was at a disadvantage, and the boy seized his arm.

While he was giving us these confidences, unfortunately, his eyes came to rest, at first accidentally, then wistfully, then with a horrid gleam in them, on the little dog, which was fooling about on the top of the sausage-machine, and his hands went out toward it convulsively, whereat David, in sudden fear, seized the dog in one arm and gallantly clenched his other fist, and then Joey begged his pardon and burst into tears, each one of which he flung against the wall, where it exploded with a bang.

He walked with dilated nostrils and clenched hands, all glowing and tingling with the excitement of the combat, and warmed with the thought that he could still, when there was need, take his own part in a street brawl in spite of his three-score and odd years.

No sooner was he over the threshold than Daddy Mathieu slammed the door after him and, turning towards us, with eyes bloodshot, and frothing at the mouth, he hissed to us, shaking his clenched fist at the door he had just shut on the man he evidently hated:

The man sprang to his feet and strode forward with clenched hands, his face white with rage.

In the darkness of her own room she clenched her fists and glared about.

'Brutalist' martial law museum to rise in UP Diliman !-- -- Marc Jayson Cayabyab (The Philippine Star) - August 25, 2019 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines The martial law museum to rise within the University of the Philippines (UP)'s Diliman campus will be a "brutalist" architectural structure, designed after a clenched fist to memorialize the struggles of those who fought against the Marcos dictatorship.

Jones threatened the woman with a clenched fist and the woman, who is in her 40s, got out of the BMW 2 Series without injury.