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[...] It was a kind of muscular hypnosis, as when you might temporarily tense your muscles during a disturbing drama.

The tensing of the jaw is highly important here, and has in the past prevented adequate healthy blood circulation to the gums—also causing, with the shallow breathing, the sinus difficulty, which exerted additional pressure to the cheek and mouth areas. [...]

[...] They relax and tense in great bursts of activity and relaxation, and this affects the eye muscles as well, of course.

[...] He used to close his eyes tightly, often, when he sat down, tensing the knee ligaments and the eyes at the same time. [...]

In other ways he did not use his eyes to follow sideward motions, and often tensed the entire head area when he executed any movement he felt was difficult. [...]

In dreams even the past is in present tense. [...]

[...] And Ruburt had also tuned in on the same conversation, but had already begun to tense, and therefore was blocking every psychological stimulus in the hopes of blocking out the right one. [...]

[...] She started with the Seth voice then gradually used one that was between her normal voice and Seth’s. Florence noticed that the tense changed from we to I for a while also.)

[...] One group of muscles therefore were tensed for action, and the other group of muscles tried to stop the action. [...]

[...] Some muscles were habitually tensed, and the balance thrown off. [...]

(Venice noticed that the tense changed from we to I for awhile also.)

[...] Its probable variations in grammar or tense or inflection escape you entirely. [...]

[...] This feeling is mostly pleasant, she said, as if she’s been holding it tense for some time. [...]

[...] Instead of a time sequence of tenses, which they would not need, you have the intensities and depths of color.

He has been tensed for so long that he has been afraid to let go all at once, in his terms. [...]

[...] The tenseness from his fear would alternately relax and tighten the muscles, then.

[...] The tenseness of his jaws held everything else in certain positions. [...]

[...] You are using it creatively whether you know it or not, and it shouts through you even though you purse your lips, and it speaks through you even though you tense your muscles to hide it. [...]

(Right now, a week after it began to manifest itself, the situation at the crippled nuclear power plant near Harrisburg is still very tense. [...]

[...] She said her tense hip already felt better.

(Jane sat rather tensely in her chair as she began speaking for Seth. [...]

[...] “The impetus comes all the way up into the thigh now,” Jane said, and I could see the thigh muscles moving, tensing and relaxing. [...]