tight-mouthed

• “Leatherman tools are durable, rarely rust, and have a certain tight-mouthed, implacable Yankee quality.”

  Self-Reliance 2008

• “Just sat there tight-mouthed, looking out of the window.”

  "Thia of the Drylands" by Harl Vincent, part 1

• “Its characters are tight-mouthed, tending to disregard speech in favor of a quick squint at the simmering horizon.”

  Greasy Hairball Novels

• “Judging from the tight-mouthed, heedful way they shied from his side of the room, they had gone from thinking him lecherous to thinking him contagious.”

  Simon & Schuster: Heaven Lake

• “Never could just stand by tight-mouthed, overhearing the womenfolk speculate on "Abram's rough-'n'-tumble girl" -- them looking clear down their noses at me just 'cause I wasn't indoors baking pies or doing needlework.”

  Covenant

• “I could hardly believe it was the tight-mouthed man I had met that morning.”

  A Body In The Bath House

• “Asmodean began, and stopped when Mat looked at him, a tight-mouthed blend of pain and readiness to hit something.”

  The Fires of Heaven

• “First, though, I must be presented to Hardinge, who was with him at dinner, a plain-faced, tight-mouthed sobersides with the empty cuff of his missing left hand tucked into his coat.”

  Flashman and the Mountain of Light

• “By courtesy of Holbein the bloated Henry VIII of middle age is familiar to us all, tight-mouthed and pig-eyed, so obese that it needed machinery to haul him upstairs.”

  All the Way with Henry the K

• “Ye know how Cross is -- as tight-mouthed as a clam with the lockjaw.”

  How Janice Day Won

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