Riding with both arms clenched round the waist of a horsewoman, Prity kept her eyes closed the whole time, no doubt immersed in her beloved universe of abstract shapes and forms-a better world than this one of sorrow and messy nonlinearity.

Once the blankets were rearranged, and slack limbs laid straight and made comfortable, he looked up to find the Mad Prophet poised against the tinseled fall of rain, arms clenched through bundled loops of harness.

Taen shivered miserably in dew-drenched weeds, arms clenched around her knees.

Skinny lay in a fetal position, arms clenched around his smashed ribs, moaning and crying in agony.

Sheltered once more within the grove, she huddled with her arms clenched around her knees.

He held his arms clenched over his chest, as if to keep them from reaching out.

Only she could feel the iron in his arm, clenched in effort.

They were night-hunters by preference; and Tully - white shirt, pale hair, paler skin-- She kept her arms clenched about him.

When he was exhausted he slid down the door to his knees, and lay for a while against the boards with his arms clenched over his ears.