Before she could recover, he backed up enough to straiten her arm, then turned slightly.

Almost I have a mind That the bowstring should straiten your soft throat, But no, you are too beautiful.

In the meantime its binding force will be very uncertain, and it will straiten or relax with every variation in the credit of the paper.

He told me he could not say but it might straiten him a little; but, however, it was my money, and I might want it more than he.

On either part Now am I straiten'd; one conjures me speak, Th' other to silence binds me: whence a sigh I utter, and the sigh is heard.