Now, however, the tense troubled feeling with which he had gone to bed was melting away in the yellow sunshine of the morning.

Conversation resumed, but there was a tense feeling in the air.

The very thought of taking her hands in his gave him a tense feeling inside his chest.

He shivered, one hand clutching at his stomach, a tense feeling of dread growing in him by the moment.

It gave a curious, tense feeling: you kept listening for the sounds that should be there.

Yet she had a tense feeling that things were happening, things she didn't understand.

You may get a headache or a tight, tense feeling in your stomach.

The rain pounded all around, and she had a tense feeling that some dramatic event was imminent.

He had that same tense, uneasy feeling now.

I'd probably burgled a hundred homes in my life, but it was always the same, the tense feeling of intrusion.