In the higher moths and the butterflies, all appendages are tightly fastened to the body wall.
"Because that roller coaster is so extreme, we require that head scarves are tightly fastened," she said.
Whereas Will Franken was a character comedian whose mask remained tightly fastened, becoming Sarah has humanised the act, bringing in an element of autobiography.
At other times, there was the rickety roar of the tractors, driven by burnt, bare-chested men with cheap cotton sarongs tightly fastened against their flattened stomachs, either on their way to plough the fields or heading home after work.
When figs finally do return, the masterminds behind modern packaging seem to presuppose an uncanny ability on the part of the consumer to intuit fig readiness through the barrier of clear, tightly fastened plastic containers.
I have had success with young turnip, peeled and sliced and simmered in seasoned butter over which, under a tightly fastened lid, a pheasant is permitted to have an hour's sojourn in the peppery steam.
On May 17, the F.A.A. issued a reminder to cargo carriers with heavy vehicles on board to ensure that their loads were tightly fastened, an indication that American safety officials suspected a cargo shift in the April crash.
The depth of my admiration for Lauder now baffles me as much as the steady diet of horehound drops I adopted as snack food, or my insistence, much of one autumn, that I wear a rabbit's foot in each buttonhole of my shirt, which I kept tightly fastened up to the neck.
My goggles, tightly fastened to my head, felt like they'd blow off.
