vicelike

• “The next moment the wretched man had wrenched free from his captors and flung himself at my feet, his arms clutching me about the knees in a vicelike grip as he prayed in a frenzy for mercy.”

  Chapter 19: Transformation

• “As I came abreast of the girl I made to toss the florin into her violin case but was startled to find my wrist caught in a vicelike grip before I could release the coin.”

  Fictionaut: The Case Of The Limehouse Golem

• “Holding my arms in a vicelike grip, he uses his other hand to frisk me, plucking my gun from my waist and flinging it away.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Hidden Affair

• “The Klingon felt his windpipe closing in the Bandelaar's vicelike grip.”

  Fictionaut: Addicts

• “Then a second hand took hold of her, and strong fingers squeezed her flesh until she was held in a vicelike grip.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE TIME QUAKE

• “Doyle was not tall, but he was well built, sturdy, fit, and strong, and the vicelike grip of his hand was as forbidding as his fierce moustache.”

  Simon & Schuster: Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile

• “Before he had had the opportunity to turn, a man with gloved hands—he was sure that it was a man—had taken a vicelike grip on his neck and pulled him back towards the horse trough, twisting him round and forcing his head and shoulders forward into the icy water.”

  Simon & Schuster: Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile

• “Unlike other grandmothers, she had the vicelike grip of a Teamster.”

  Simon & Schuster: Chicken Soup for the Soul: All in the Family

• “Behold the vicelike bureaucratic grasp of Richard Holbrooke, special envoy for Af-Pak!”

  Maps | ATTACKERMAN

• “A current of wanting to break out of the vicelike grip of this society is bubbling just under the surface and the mullahs have to spend a great deal of effort now just to keep it under wraps.”

  "Obama dismayed by Iran sentence."

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