He tightened the reins, and rode away, the tight little wad of paper still hidden in his palm.

She had folded up small four-by-four squares of gauze into tight wads and placed them between the jaws of the sponge stick.

His hands made a delicate little movement, as if drawing the finest of wires from within a tight wad of fibers.

Slowly, deliberately, she crumpled up the parchment into a tight wad and dropped it into her half-empty wine goblet.

Even Claire was drawn out of her tight wad of misery enough to meet Leo's eyes directly for the first time.

She balled that thought up into a tight little wad, and shoved it with all her slight empathic talent into the ghost's aura.

Buy it, you tight wad.

He had spent hours riding around the herd, with a tight wad of anger in his breast.

He rolled them into a tight wad and flipped them on to the bed.

She rolled up the empty sugar tube into a tight little wad and threw it at the back of the booth.