He could almost feel the tight straps of the electric chair closing over his arms and legs.

She moved her head, lifting her mouth, with its heavy, sodden packing and its tight straps, towards me.

He made a last adjustment to the tight elastic straps, then checked his wristwatch, verifying that he still had twenty seconds left.

As for his ribs, the tight strap accounted for their discomfort.

Her hips began at her ankles, bulging over the tight straps of her shoes; she had square shoulders and a long coat of cheap brown tweed over a huge square body.

The back of the outfit was crisscrossed with a web of tight straps and buckles.

Vanessa could see all her muscles straining against the tight straps.

Twenty flamingoes were shipped from Tanzania to London, on arrival three were dead, the other 17 had suffered multiple wounds to legs and wings from tight, non-elastic straps.

As he did so, he prominently displayed one of his magical bracers, tight straps of black material lined with gleaming mithral rings.

Within two minutes, her hands were bound behind her; a tight strap held her ankles.