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1. Too near for reflection; too far for intervention: on tenter hooks, in fact; a sort of mental crucifixion.
2. She was not going to seem to give it him yet; a man on the tenter-hooks was a man in the perfectly right place.
3. Some were hung by the feet to tenter-hooks driven into poles; and in that wretched posture left till they perished.
4. Meanwhile the guns were unlimbered, and their anxious crew (the battery had never been in action before) were on tenter-hooks.
5. When the time of his return came nigh, Aunt Judith and the household were on the tenter-hooks of impatience.