He stretched lazily, and she caught her breath as she felt the sudden hardening of his body against hers.

She had lost face before him; he sensed a sudden hardening of her determi- nation.

The invitation was plain, and he caught Mari's scowl, the sudden hardening of Mayenne's lips.

There is a sudden hardening in the air, as if sound itself were turning into matter, true sounds, false sounds, secrets told and hidden more in the telling.

He could imagine the tightening of her neck muscles, the sudden hardening of her face.

A faraway look came into the President's eyes and Mercier felt a chill run through him at the sudden hardening that entered the man's voice.

He heard the incredulous suck of breath from a man behind him, a kibitzer who had seen his hand, saw the sudden hardening of Sonefs face, the accentuated pallor on Lekard's thin features.

Something in the sudden hardening of his grim, impassive face told the girl that he was a man of swift animal passions, a dangerous man unlike the soft, mild townsmen she had known.

Parkinson noticed a sudden hardening in Kingsley's easy-going, insulting manner.

He turned, saw Gurney swallow, saw the sudden grim hardening of the man's jaw.