Knuckled

"It just kind of knuckled on me and hit the post," Knuble said of his missed first chance. ❋ Unknown (2002)

All the amusement and mischief vanished from Belladonna’s face and her somber expression knuckled a fist of apprehension into Kallie’s guts. ❋ Adrian Phoenix (2010)

He went to crawl through the post fence, rifle clenched even tighter in his knuckled fist. ❋ David E. Hilton (2011)

Like the mate's, they were thick-boned, broken-knuckled, and malformed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a flash, Bobby was on him, tiny, white-knuckled fists flying, words and gibberish streaming from his tight red mouth. ❋ Rachel Lora Simmons (2010)

I had stopped keeping up around the 10th or 11th volume, and finally knuckled down and decided to read the entire thing as quickly as possible -- I finished it on the way to work, and I enjoyed it a lot more than I had when I was reading it in the two-month installment fashion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Once we made it out on the street (s), the traffic – and my white-knuckled grip on the edge of my seat – increased ten-fold. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The old man – white-knuckled to the steering wheel, his watery blues blurred by the scorching gusts that boiled through open windows – would retreat to an oasis in his mind where 99 icy bottles of beer stood, row upon row, ready for his inspection. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His arms were long, like prehistoric man's, and his hands were like soup-plates, twisted and gnarled, and big-knuckled from toil. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thunder and lightning were crashing and flashing (respectively) and I was white-knuckled on the steering wheel while Josie was reading the directions and we were both trying to read the ridiculously small lettering on the street signs. ❋ Alison (2010)

After a long winter hiatus, the CW's Thursday thrillers return, including The Vampire Diaries where everyone's in a state of turmoil and the underappreciated Nikita, which is turning out to be the most enjoyably white-knuckled spy ride since Alias. ❋ Unknown (2011)

While all the Commonwealth nations knuckled down and did their bit to produce, South Africa found itself in a unique situation and in many ways became the "Commonwealth's" supply depot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They were large-knuckled, sinewy and malformed by labour, rimed with callouses, the nails blunt and broken, and with here and there cuts and bruises, healed and healing, such as are common to the hands of hard-working men. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The first volume had one of these tales featuring the brawny lumberjack and the mega-dose of panel after panel of raw-knuckled brutality in this volume, I believe, takes the reader to a new dark corner of the craggy Hanks landscape. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He saw that her toil-worn, weather-exposed hands were like a man's, callused, large-knuckled, and gnarled, and that her stockingless feet were thrust into heavy man's brogans. ❋ Unknown (2010)

White-knuckled, she gripped the clacking needles so ferociously she could have knitted the booties in gale force winds and they still would have turned out ankle-stranglers. ❋ Matt Potter (2010)

I agreed and therefore knuckled down to finish the Polity book, which then acquired the title The Technician. ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)

After withering pressure from the media (kudos especially to the Globe and Mail's Paul Koring), MP Paul Dewar's persistence in the House of Commons, a growing cross-Canada grassroots movement, endless pro bono work by sympathetic lawyers, and a hard-hitting Federal Court decision a few weeks ago, the Harper regime has finally knuckled under. ❋ Unknown (2009)