Use of the word tenter in a sentence example

tenter

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She didn't much like it, but here she is; and she's on tenter-hooks to get home, so she can return with you, can't she. [Please select]

It would never do to let Mrs Brooke remain on the tenter-hooks till Stride comes home to clear the matter up. [Please select]

We could see at every house a tenter, and on almost every tenter a piece of cloth or kersie or shalloon. [Please select]

"Ho, Starbuck, and Pinckney, and Tenterden, Run for your shallops, gather your men, Scatter your boats on the lower bay." [Please select]

I made no reply, but left him upon the tenter-hooks of impatient uncertainty. [Please select]

Lord Tenterden, another great lawyer, took the side of Lord Lyndhurst, followed in the same strain by Dr. [Please select]

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