Usage of "tighten lips"

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Usage of tighten lips in English

Landless went back to his seat in the bow, with tightened lips. 
 Prisoners of Hope: A Tale of Colonial Virginia 

He studied her in silence a moment, with narrowing eyes and tightening lips. 
 St. Martin's Summer 

From time to time Craven glanced about the big room with tightened lips. 
 The Shadow of the East 

He gave them the gist of it, and Mrs. Halstead listened with tightened lips. 
 The Fifth Ace 

Bella was listening with her lowered eyes and tightened lips. 
 Snow-Blind 

With tightened lips he rode past and shot ahead. 
 The Knave of Diamonds 

He watched them with scowling brows and tightened lips, Moniz and Nunes silent behind him. 
 The Historical Nights' Entertainment: Second Series 

She had said, shaking her head with tightened lips: 
 The Three Black Pennys: A Novel 

It rolled over Isyllt's skin, coiled in her nostrils and pressed against her tightened lips. 
 The bone palace 

With tightening lips he turned away, and muttered under his breath, I am, indeed, right! 
 A Lover in Homespun / And Other Stories 

Again the darkening look and the tightening lips. 
 Coralie / Everyday Life Library No. 2 

Not a word passed the small tightened lips. 
 Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II 

Hester carried her head high, a scornful defiance breathing from the flushed cheeks and tightened lips. 
 The Case of Richard Meynell 

She saw that keen, stern face with its cold blue eyes and the grimly tightened lips. 
 The Forfeit 

Nicholas sidled up to him with tightened lips. 
 The Sea-Hawk 

With tightened lips he hastened on his way. 
 Greatheart 

Meanings of tighten lips in English