1
A cloud of horse swept down on them, each man riding loose with his hand on a taut bowstring.
2
"Now?" asked Bakall, holding his taut bowstring against his cheek and waiting for Iydahoe's command.
3
Standing a little farther away were the two elves, as tense as two taut bowstrings or the strings of some musical instrument.
4
Jack's nostrils quivered with the indrawing of a great gust of air and his diaphragm swelled until his ribs were like taut bowstrings.
5
Her shrivelled forearm, exposed by the loose sleeve, possessed no more of muscle than several taut bowstrings stretched across meagre bone under yellow, parchment-like skin.