1 She could not breathe; he was choking her; her stays were like a swiftly compressing band of iron; his arms about her made her shake with helpless hate and fury.
2 There was a heavy pistol openly in his trouser band and from the top of his tattered boot protruded the hilt of a bowie knife.
3 Slipping his knife into his boot top and loosening the pistol in his trouser band, Archie stumped over to the door and flung it open.
4 Scarlett, looking across the room, saw Rhett reach under his coat tails and produce two revolvers which Archie took and shoved into his waist band.
5 Once her sudden entrance abruptly terminated a conversation about what had happened to the members of Quantrill's band of guerillas, and she caught the names of Frank and Jesse James.
6 Rhett carefully set the baby on the floor and pulled his shirt and undershirt out of his trouser band.
7 If their resonant hilarity could never be hers, she contributed a note of easy elegance more valuable to Mattie Gormer than the louder passages of the band.
8 Lily slipped out last among the band of liberated work-women.
9 He had tried to please her, then, had touched her by sheepishly wearing a colored band on his straw hat.
10 Aunt Bessie worked her lips as though they were an elastic band.
11 The Duluth delegation had brought their famous Beaver amateur band, in Zouave costumes of green velvet jacket, blue trousers, and scarlet fez.
12 The band was reorganized, and provided by the Commercial Club with uniforms of purple and gold.
13 The band is working loose and the lee lift is half-stranded.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night ... 14 He wore a sombrero hat, with a wide leather band and a bright buckle, and the ends of his moustache were twisted up stiffly, like little horns.
15 He ran into the storeroom and brought out a gaudily painted harmonica, sat down on a bench, and spreading his fat legs apart began to play like a whole band.