1 Mammy carefully dropped the twelve yards of green sprigged muslin over the mountainous petticoats and hooked up the back of the tight, low-cut basque.
2 She tried to draw deep breaths but Mammy's lacings were too tight.
3 We are fighting the Yankees' new rifles with Revolutionary War muskets, and soon the blockade will be too tight for even medical supplies to slip in.
4 Miss Hope, death in her face, sat erect beside her, holding her sister's skirt in a tight grasp.
5 In his eyes, there was a fagged, haunted look, and the sunburned skin was tight across the fine bones of his face--her same handsome Ashley, yet so very different.
6 His coat and trousers were actually of the same material and they fitted him, instead of hanging in folds or being almost too tight for movement.
7 With a tight grip on her he dragged her several paces away from the wagon.
8 If she could only be rid of her tight stays, the collar that choked her and the slippers still full of sand and gravel that blistered her feet.
9 Little close-set eyes, squinting in the sun glare, calmly surveyed the house from beneath the visor of his tight blue cap.
10 Swift as a panther, Rhett was beside her, his heavy hand across her mouth, his arm tight about her waist.
11 She bent and twisted every way against the iron of his arm, her heart near bursting, her tight stays cutting off her breath.
12 Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.
13 She was uncomfortable in the tight black dress she had borrowed from Mrs. Meade, for she had had no time to get mourning clothes for herself.
14 Scarlett lay back in her chair and unbuttoned the two top buttons of her tight basque.
15 Immediately the fires which smoldered beneath tight basques flamed wildly and the two organizations split up and glared hostilely.