| 1. | After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | In the Thoracic these wires happen to be more taut than in the other types. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 3. | The hawser was as taut as a bowstring, and the current so strong she pulled upon her anchor. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 4. | So far so good, but it next occurred to my recollection that a taut hawser, suddenly cut, is a thing as dangerous as a kicking horse. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 5. | Nerves as taut as a violin string--due to his acute physical senses and his thin, sensitive skin--plus his instantaneous quickness make the Thoracic what is known as "high-strung.. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 6. | "We've a little stranger here--he he A noo boarder and lodger, sir, and looking fit and taut as a fiddle slep' like a supercargo, he did, right alongside of John--stem to stem we was, all night.. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 7. | A plump bare generous arm shone, was seen, held forth from a white petticoatbodice and taut shiftstraps. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 8. | Belly without blemish, bulging big, a buckler of taut vellum, no, whiteheaped corn, orient and immortal, standing from everlasting to everlasting. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 9. | Take it along to the next point, as shown by the dotted line, and pass it through and across the opening again, and so on, until B is reached, when the thread should be held by some sealing-wax quite taut everywhere. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |