For two days she refused all nourishment, employing her remaining strength to clench her teeth or to eject anything that Therese succeeded in introducing into her mouth.
Pendant deux jours elle refusa toute nourriture, mettant ses dernières forces à serrer les dents, rejetant ce qu'on réussissait à lui introduire dans la bouche.
Then suddenly a fit of rage seizes him, his face crumples, his little fists clench in fury, he tightens them like knots in string and waves them about.
Puis, tout d’un coup, il est pris d’une crise de rage ; sa face se chiffonne, furibonde, ses petits poings se serrent, se serrent, comme des nœuds de ficelle. Il les brandit.
Barbusse, Henri / Under fireBarbusse, Henri / Le feu
But he followed the quarrel from out of the corner of his eye, and especially watched Saturnin, who was all in a tremble, and had left off rubbing the glass, his fists clenched, his eyes glaring, ready to spring at the husband's throat.
Mais, du coin de l'oeil, il suivait la querelle, et guettait surtout Saturnin, qui, frémissant, avait cessé de frotter la glace, les poings serrés, les yeux ardents, près de sauter à la gorge du mari.
As the battalion diminished in numbers, Miette raised the banner still higher in the air; she held it in front of her with clenched fists as if it were a huge taper.
À mesure que le bataillon diminuait, Miette élevait le drapeau davantage; elle le tenait, comme un grand cierge, devant elle, les poings fermés.
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon
And then there would also come the cold blasts of winter, the disasters of slack times, the hurricanes of consumption carrying off the weak, whilst the strong clenched their fists and dreamt of vengeance.
Puis, ce seraient encore les coups de froid de l’hiver, les désastres du chômage, des rafales de phtisie emportant les faibles, tandis que les forts serraient les poings, en rêvant de vengeance.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - RomeZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Rome
Les Trois Villes - Rome
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The Three Cities - Rome
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Meantime Pierre, erect against the parapet, in his tight black cassock, and with his bare feverish hands nervously clenched, was gazing before him with all his eyes, with all his soul.
Et Pierre, déjà, regardait de toute sa vue, de toute son âme, debout contre le parapet, dans son étroite soutane noire, les mains nues et serrées nerveusement, brûlantes de sa fièvre.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - RomeZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Rome
Les Trois Villes - Rome
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The Three Cities - Rome
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Often with his patience quite worn out, weary of his wretched struggles, he returned to his bare room with clenched fists.
Souvent, à bout de patience, las de ces luttes mesquines de chaque jour, il rentrait dans sa chambre nue, les poings serrés, les épaules gonflées de sa force inutile, souhaitant quelque colosse à étouffer pour se soulager.
Zola, Emile / The Conquest of PlassansZola, Emile / La Conquete des Plassans
La Conquete des Plassans
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The Conquest of Plassans
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Thereupon he clenched his heavy hairy fists and shook them, seemingly proud of their enormous size.
Il avait fermé les poings, des poings gras, velus aux phalanges, et il les balançait, heureux de les voir énormes.
Zola, Emile / His ExcellencyZola, Emile / Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
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His Excellency
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clench
noun
Singular
Plural
Common case
clench
*clenches
Possessive case
clench's
*clenches'
clench
verb
Basic forms
Past
clenched
Imperative
clench
Present Participle (Participle I)
clenching
Past Participle (Participle II)
clenched
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I clench
we clench
you clench
you clench
he/she/it clenches
they clench
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am clenching
we are clenching
you are clenching
you are clenching
he/she/it is clenching
they are clenching
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have clenched
we have clenched
you have clenched
you have clenched
he/she/it has clenched
they have clenched
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been clenching
we have been clenching
you have been clenching
you have been clenching
he/she/it has been clenching
they have been clenching
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I clenched
we clenched
you clenched
you clenched
he/she/it clenched
they clenched
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was clenching
we were clenching
you were clenching
you were clenching
he/she/it was clenching
they were clenching
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had clenched
we had clenched
you had clenched
you had clenched
he/she/it had clenched
they had clenched
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been clenching
we had been clenching
you had been clenching
you had been clenching
he/she/it had been clenching
they had been clenching
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will clench
we shall/will clench
you will clench
you will clench
he/she/it will clench
they will clench
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be clenching
we shall/will be clenching
you will be clenching
you will be clenching
he/she/it will be clenching
they will be clenching
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have clenched
we shall/will have clenched
you will have clenched
you will have clenched
he/she/it will have clenched
they will have clenched
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been clenching
we shall/will have been clenching
you will have been clenching
you will have been clenching
he/she/it will have been clenching
they will have been clenching
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would clench
we should/would clench
you would clench
you would clench
he/she/it would clench
they would clench
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be clenching
we should/would be clenching
you would be clenching
you would be clenching
he/she/it would be clenching
they would be clenching
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have clenched
we should/would have clenched
you would have clenched
you would have clenched
he/she/it would have clenched
they would have clenched
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice