At present it is enough to ask whether human love and hatred, joy and sorrow, homage and scorn can manifest themselves by looks and tones, by the open palm and the clenched fist, by laughter and tears, by a bent neck and by a curled lip.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
But Betty's thin, childish fingers, clasped round her knee, worked nervously in and out; she clenched her teeth over her lower lip.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
It was from this latter I had the account, and I can give you no details, for all he said was, 'As I crushed it in my hand, I clenched my fist to fell him to the ground!
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever