How To Use Stiffly In A Sentence
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As they negotiated the park gates and turned into the crowded thoroughfare, Patience sat, stiffly erect; inside, her emotions churned.
A RAKE'S VOW
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When dawn broke, he rose stiffly, and stretched his aching limbs.
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Odin walked stiffly, like a head hung between two heavy stilts draped in striped Viyella and white towelling.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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Slowly, moving stiffly, he walked out of the power-house and across to the railings.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Then she said stiffly, `Well, since my friend didn't deign to tell me last night, I had to find out through the grapevine.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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Then she said stiffly, `Well, since my friend didn't deign to tell me last night, I had to find out through the grapevine.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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From her slim hands, poised delicatly = yet stiffly = around the remote to her car stereo, to the stretch of long, organized, red hair that dangles down the front of her hippish-styled Target shirt = of which she has purchased all they produced since last may = Shes batting her eyes at me, thick, clumped mascara on curled, lined eyelashes ... she speaks.
Breakthedark Diary Entry
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Stone curlews - now called thick-knees - glare at you in basilisk manner, spurt stiffly a few yards and then glare at you again, surprised that you're still there.
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Labour's most memorable poster during its campaign was one of Tory leader William Hague, with his normally bald head sporting Margaret Thatcher's stiffly lacquered hairdo.
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Marching stiffly across the room he performed a perfect about-turn before slapping his tiny sandalled foot on the clay floor and saluting.
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He was scratched from the lineup yesterday and was walking stiffly as the result of having his neck and back taped up.
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Every size and color of the human spectrum was represented: young and old; men and women; black, white, and brown; bloated and emaciated; tattooed and unscarred; hairy and bald; well-endowed and not—all lying stiffly in the pale pallor of death.
Law of Attraction
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Will our communication with each other be stiffly mechanical, ungreased by the social lubrication of facial expressions?
Globe and Mail
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Wow, the dough that I made extra hydrated is looking like a milkshake puddle on the kitchen counter while the firm dough is standing a little too stiffly at attention.
Been a Mad, Mad Girl
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On its back, he shaped shells and cartouches, or fanciful scrolls, which communicated that this chair was not meant to stiffly line the wall but rather to be moved about for impromptu use.
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The lama squatted under the shade of a mango, whose shadow played checkerwise over his face; the soldier sat stiffly on the pony; and
Kim
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He sat stiffly beside her on the ground, fuming.
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In terms of car set-up, we try to spring the cars quite stiffly in order to get a responsive change of direction through the chicanes.
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As the flexile hose has to be stiffly distended to bear an aqueous gravity of twenty-five to fifty pounds to the square inch, the force of the current can be estimated.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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A prolonged har-r-r-rouche from Kaluna brought out a man with a female horde behind him, all shuffling into clothes as we approached, and we stiffly dismounted from the wet saddles in which we had sat for ten hours, and stiffly hobbled up into the littered verandah, the water dripping from our clothes, and squeezing out of our boots at every step.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Tobias's nostrils were flared, and he had his arms held stiffly against his sides, with his hands clenched into fists.
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Her tone was flat and deadly, her fingers curled stiffly into something like claws.
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Always his own reinsman, the Minister's fast tandem driving and the stiffly upright "tiger" behind him, for several years were one of the sights of the city.
A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,
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Moira sat stiffly upright in her straight-backed chair.
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She walked stiffly towards the group that was waiting for them and gave Dr. Wordsworth a curt nod.
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People in Joseph don't talk to the garbageman 's daughter that way," she said stiffly.
HOUR OF THE HUNTER
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He waddled chubbily and somewhat stiffly, but he outfaced the winter wind as he had not done for many weeks.
The Innocents A Story for Lovers
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He comported himself so stiffly during cocktails that Jim Maier suspected the bishop might be feeling intimidated.
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The witness against the government of Iraq walked stiffly into the room, metal callipers buckled to heavy medical shoes.
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Rita ran a fraught hand through her stiffly lacquered coiffure.
YELLOW BIRD
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Half a dozen straight-back chairs, also "boughten," were disposed stiffly against the walls.
Southern Lights and Shadows
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Not far away a raccoon slipped from a hiding place and moved stiffly away, its kinesic message irritation at the disturbance.
Roadside Crosses
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He stood erect, his arms hanging stiffly at his sides.
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She took us down another stairway into a vast hall filled with paintings and statuary, where a man in a dark blue suit and silver braid (I suppose that's what you'd call a footman in livery), stood stiffly as the statues around him.
The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way
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I wrote a stiffly-worded letter of complaint to the council.
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Why don't you borrow your sister's car?" said Cassandra stiffly.
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Across from me, Ashley chuckled and shook her head, causing her white streaked hair to stiffly follow her movements.
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The down-on-his luck vet slurped the last of his second beer, then stiffly rose to his feet and staggered to the door.
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Instead of a grey flannel suit he now wears a rather improbable pair of designer jeans and a stiffly pressed polo shirt.
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The short figure of the paraman ambulated somewhat stiffly through the doorway, negotiating the rugs with care.
The Dragon Lensman
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Sandy, Sam and Westlake ramparted Mormon from enthusiastic admirers and pushed down to the creek where he washed his hurts with the stinging icy water and stiffly put on his clothes.
Rimrock Trail
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The trout and I part ways, and I stumble stiffly to the bank to rerig the broken leader and warm myself with fantasies of hot soup ladled over steaming cornbread.
Fly Fishing for Trout in Winter
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She was bending eagerly over the woman to hear her reply; but drew back, instinctively, as she once again rose, slowly and stiffly, into a sitting posture; then, clutching the coverlid with both hands, muttered some indistinct sounds in her throat, and fell lifeless on the bed.
Oliver Twist
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She sat down stiffly on a chair by the wall, aware that they were looking at her.
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Mones held himself as stiffly as a nineteenth-century tragedian, and filled his lines with sentiment.
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She held up her hand stiffly.
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Her doll sits stiffly, pointed straight ahead at the fixtures that emerge from the wall.
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She stayed there a moment, getting used to the pain, then turned stiffly and clomped to the door with ungainly steps that grew steadier with each forced movement.
Crimson Wind
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His wife, a petite blonde, stands beside him clutching a glass of wine and smiling stiffly.
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Rita ran a fraught hand through her stiffly lacquered coiffure.
YELLOW BIRD
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I wouldna discommode ye, mistress, " he said, holding himself stiffly.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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Signing off on Ms. Clinton's stiffly hand-grenading alleged “zingers” that sound like they were cribbed from a retired Bob Hope jokesmith living in a “golden years” village in Palo Alto is NOT working for her in terms of helping her campaign.
The Ill-Served GET Served.
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The key turned stiffly in the lock.
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They walked slowly, led by the bagpipers, past an honor guard of law enforcement officers standing stiffly at attention.
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This gentleman, becoming transfixed at the same moment as his lady – mother, could not by any means unfix himself again, but stood stiffly staring at the whole composition with
Little Dorrit
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Then the figure moved. Stiffly and slowly, it came down the steps.
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The path now climbed stiffly, switching back and forth on the steeper sections, otherwise crossing the face of the right hand valley wall.
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He caught the bag a bit stiffly and this lump came up like a little gobstopper under his skin.
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The third represented the upper half of a human figure, ending in an escalloped line like the waves; the face was rubbed and featureless, and both arms were held very stiffly up in the air.
The Complete Father Brown
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I unconsciously syllogized thus: 'All red flannel has threads of warp and woof and a rough texture, caused by the coarse fibres of wool curling up stiffly; this is a piece of red flannel; hence this will be found to have these properties.'
Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8
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'And what will be the counterword?' asked Challoner stiffly.
The Dynamiter
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A walking stick is a stick that walks, and the phrase might occur as a metaphorical description of a stiffly behaved person: a walking-stick or walkingstick is a stick for walking; the difference may sometimes be important, and consistency may be held to require that all compounds with gerunds should be hyphened or made into single words.
Hyphens.
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Miranda's caravan started an hour later, she driving, Mormon and Sam in the back, each dressed in his best, minus chaparejos and spurs, but otherwise most typically the cowboy and therefore out of place -- and feeling it -- as they sat stiffly in the leatherette-lined tonneau.
Rimrock Trail
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She noted though that after this Felipe de Santis was prepared to acknowledge Mitch's presence although he was stiffly formal.
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We got stiffly to our feet and clapped the encores, applauded and cheered the memory of what we once believed and wanted to be.
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He was standing stiffly at his gate, staring into the cemetery, his eyes deep pools of inexpressible sorrow.
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The Miss Mutlows sat stiffly down on a form, one on each side of her governess, and all three stared solemnly at the boys, who began to blush vividly under the inspection, to unbutton and rebutton their gloves with great care, and to shift from leg to leg in an embarrassed manner.
Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
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Instead of a grey flannel suit he now wears a rather improbable pair of designer jeans and a stiffly pressed polo shirt.
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When they have been carried or have stiffly and slowly marched through the entrance to the train, the "brancard" cases are brought in and laid on the floor.
My War Experiences in Two Continents
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I slitted my eyes open to look at Tirza, who was standing stiffly with her hands fisted at her sides, her face closed of expression though I could sense her quivering in some unnamed emotion.
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The lama squatted under the shade of a mango, whose shadow played checkerwise over his face; the soldier sat stiffly on the pony; and Kim, making sure that there were no snakes, lay down in the crotch of the twisted roots.
Kim
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And, like Jack, he walked very stiffly on his guard and very circumspectly.
CHAPTER XXIX
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Stifling a cry of pain, she stiffly moved herself into a better position holding her arms straight as possible.
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The large spatulate fingers were cupped in toward the palms, the thumbs stiffly extended, nails white.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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They walked slowly, led by the bagpipers, past an honor guard of law enforcement officers standing stiffly at attention.
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We had been forced to smile stiffly at the camera despite the nauseating stench of drying fish.
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He sat his saddle as stiffly as a statue carved from dark vehrwood, and he did not look down at the dead, but every time his charger came near to stepping on one of their outflung hands or the hems of their clothes, the knight nudged the horse aside.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
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Finally, very stiffly whisked egg whites are folded into the mixture.
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People in Joseph don't talk to the garbageman 's daughter that way," she said stiffly.
HOUR OF THE HUNTER
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When the Reclusiarch passed back again, each initiate must hold out his middle finger, pointing stiffly forward from his fist.
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Three weeks later the hand was glossy and stiff, the fingers extended and adducted, the thumb was held stiffly in the palm with no power of extension.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
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When the Reclusiarch passed back again, each initiate must hold out his middle finger, pointing stiffly forward from his fist.
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My copy of Gray's Anatomy, the famous doorstopper, has a smudgy black and white photograph of Henry Gray posed next to a dissecting table in a dark suit and a cravat, a pair of naked human feet sticking out stiffly in front of him.
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He held his head stiffly with his nose angled upward and his lips pursed with a superior, disdainful expression.
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Her shoes slapped against the cracked sidewalk over and over as she walked stiffly.
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When I got home, an elegant woman, with frosted hair and dressed in Armani, sat stiffly on our couch.
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A haughty young lady in the dining-room, Birdie Callahan, in her stiffly starched white, but beneath the icy crust of her hauteur was a molten mass of good humor and friendliness.
Fanny Herself
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Next to Ojka's stiffly coifed hair, Uma's unkempt curls looked lovely around her face.
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Elders climb stiffly out of the bus, while the young ones unload swags off the top.
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At work, she wears artificial legs and walks stiffly with a cane.
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His manner was stiffly formal.
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Today's return to red, wind-chapped hands stiffly clenched around the umbrella handle seemed fitting, as Edward and I wandered the deserted park that's looking a bit the way I imagine Times Square might on New Year's Day -- forlorn, with evidence of the midnight celebrations still scattered about, lingering confetti glinting from the sidewalks, on building walls, and adorning the odd mail box -- minus the shards of broken beer bottles.
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The true madeleines de Commercy are made from egg yolks creamed with sugar and lemon zest, with flour, noisette butter, and stiffly beaten egg whites folded in before baking in little shell-shaped moulds.
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Marching stiffly across the room he performed a perfect about-turn before slapping his tiny sandalled foot on the clay floor and saluting.
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He marched stiffly to show me how to make each finger dance up and down, staccato like an obedient little soldier.
Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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In the stiffly rugged heaviness of the shoes there is the accumulated tenacity of the slow trudge through the far-spreading and ever-uniform furrows of the field swept by a raw wind.
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Some themes are adopted from the Minoan repertoire - ladies in gaily coloured flounced skirts, acrobatic bull leapers - though they tend to be more stiffly drawn and lack the grace and spontaneity so characteristic of Minoan art.
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A fifth lion, rearing up on its hind legs, prepares to attack an unsuspecting but seemingly ill-natured winged griffin seated stiffly on its haunches.
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Stacked on the cargo deck, they still fought, frozen inside their rubber bags, arms and legs stiffly askew.
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Waiters in the silver national costume of Luctia bowed stiffly as they placed dish after lavish dish in front of the delegates.
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Thomas primmed up his face, and Sebastian drew himself up stiffly, interrupting her train of thought with their posing.
The Gates Of Sleep
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The soldiers stood stiffly to attention.
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The dog sat stiffly next to Mr. Dawson's chair and now carefully watched the group.
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Two flags were stiffly undulating from the halyards like squares of flexible sheet-iron.
Chapter 3
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She quickly brings her arms stiffly to her sides and flashes a lopsided smile, her heavy jaw clenched.
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Carter said, coming stiffly to attention and saluting Saunders who returned the salute and then shook Carters hand.
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With that I grabbed my crutch stiffly and hobbled out the door.
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Picture the first 19 th-century photographers, perched behind unwieldy wooden cameras atop tripods, their subjects sitting stiffly without motion.
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We would come home to find her reclining like a pasha, surrounded by relatives from Bint Jbeil, headscarved old hajjis and tiny old men who sat stiffly in straight-backed chairs pulled up around her as she regaled them with tales of The Operation.
Day of Honey
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Grasping the horn in one hand, the cantle in his other, he stiffly pulled himself onto the burro.
Deuces Wild
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She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat
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Her doll sits stiffly, pointed straight ahead at the fixtures that emerge from the wall.
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He would stare dumfounded at the erudite personage at the head of the class; Leander's bare feet were always carefully adjusted to a crack between the puncheons of the floor, literally "toeing the mark"; his broad trousers, frayed out liberally at the hem, revealed his skinny and scarred little ankles, for his out-door adventures were not without a record upon the more impressionable portions of his anatomy; his waistband was drawn high up under his shoulder-blades and his ribs, and girt over the shoulders of his unbleached cotton shirt by braces, which all his learning did not prevent him from calling "galluses"; his cut, scratched, calloused hands were held stiffly down at the side seams in his nether garments in strict accordance with the regulations.
The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
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I wrote a stiffly-worded letter of complaint to the council.
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When an evil attains this extent, he is a poor citizen, a poor cowardly dallier with opinions, whatever his fighting mark may be, who can make up his mind to calmly acquiesce in establishing its permanence, or to stiffly oppose every movement and every suggestion tending in the least towards its abrogation.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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As I sat on the large animal skinned passenger seat and buckled myself up, Zachary, still silent, revved the car engine up, stiffly jerking the heater switch on, gushes of cold, unwarmed air blowing in our faces.
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I walked stiffly into the lounge and had the sudden urge to have a boiling hot bath.
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“If the sum is not sufficient,” Dick said stiffly, “why name the sum you consider fair.”
CHAPTER V
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Sitting up stiffly, she saw the pink scrape on her knee grow bedewed with blood.
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With an almost savage twist she turned on the audio, sitting stiffly erect and motionless as the tape played back, either deaf or impervious to the biograph.
The Ship Who Sang
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Bayard2s sword stilled, and Sir Robert stood stiffly behind him, his hand stretched toward the Scorpion in silent anguish.
Virginity
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When Chris came down he found his parents sitting stiffly opposite each other, the tension palpable.
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Ymirites do not aberrate in such fashion," said Thua stiffly.
Agent Of The Terran Empire
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Joan opted for the two-seater couch and sat stiffly at the edge of it.
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The key turned stiffly in the lock.
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He was standing stiffly at his gate, staring into the cemetery, his eyes deep pools of inexpressible sorrow.
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Automatically Greg takes her hand, like the good gallant man he is, and draws her nearer as Jem walks stiffly away.
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When we had rowed about half-way with our boats it began to blow very stiffly, and the sea ran so high that the cockboat of the
A Source Book of Australian History
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He sat stiffly, with a pained expression on his face .
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Derian balanced on a second campstool, his hands folded stiffly on his knees.
Through Wolfs Eyes
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And few could have failed to be moved by the five pitiful bodies of quins, lined up stiffly in a row.
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Stacked on the cargo deck, they still fought, frozen inside their rubber bags, arms and legs stiffly askew.
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Darkington freed himself, stiffly, his flesh athrob, and helped Frederika rise.
Explorations
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I'll quote Laura here: This recipe makes you understand why meringues were invented in the first place: they crunch on the outside but there's just a membrane-like crust of that crispness, like thin ice, then you sink through a stiffly foamy limbo into a centre of marshmallowy gooiness.
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In the stiffly rugged heaviness of the shoes there is the accumulated tenacity of the slow trudge through the far-spreading and ever-uniform furrows of the field swept by a raw wind.
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The orange-freckled Breffan chief clomped back down the rampway, cannon in one hand, datapad in another, his remaining two arms stiffly at his side.
Songs of Love & Death
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I walked stiffly into the lounge and had the sudden urge to have a boiling hot bath.
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Stacked on the cargo deck, they still fought, frozen inside their rubber bags, arms and legs stiffly askew.
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She noted though that after this Felipe de Santis was prepared to acknowledge Mitch's presence although he was stiffly formal.
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He wore a crisp dark suit, a light blue shirt and a blue tie and he walked a little stiffly.
Times, Sunday Times
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He moved stiffly to the phone and scheduled a new photo appointment.
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His long-practised 'knavish tricks' and the malicious delight he took in trying to destroy or disfigure the sylvan beauty of the landscape by his brutish ignorance of the art of forestry, combined with his own personal greed, were beginning to be well - known in St. Rest, and it is very certain that on May-morning when the youngsters of the village were abroad and, to a great extent, had it all their own way, (aided and abetted in that way by the recognised authority of the place, the minister himself,) he would never have dared to show his hard face and stiffly upright figure anywhere, lest he should be unmercifully 'guyed' without a chance of rescue or appeal.
God's Good Man
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Stacked on the cargo deck, they still fought, frozen inside their rubber bags, arms and legs stiffly askew.
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_Streech_, an outstretching (as of a rake in raking); a-strout stretched out stiffly like frozen linen.
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
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Waiters in the silver national costume of Luctia bowed stiffly as they placed dish after lavish dish in front of the delegates.
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Ethan put his arms stiffly at his sides and stood, to my dismay, like a little soldier.
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Hier ben ik," answered Dobel to his summons, stepping at the same time into the middle of the room and erecting his person as stiffly as a grenadier on parade: "Goot beoplish! dish ish de drice renowned und ingomprbl Doctor Closh Tebor -
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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He was motionless, his legs extended stiffly, his back arched in a dreadful opisthotonos, his eyes staring.
Every living thing
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his hands lay stiffly
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When not resting or feeding, they can move quickly, hopping on their hind legs with their tail held out stiffly behind.
