Quickly the young inventor clamped the receiver to his ear.
But to guard against that I will sleep with the telephone receiver clamped to my ear.
They clamped down hard, grinding shut, compressing with the tightening intensity of a closing vise.
In putting the plates thus treated together to form the hull of a vessel the swollen side of one plate is inserted between the split portions of another and the latter parts are then clamped down by heavy hydraulic pressure.
Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, and recognized him.