43 adjectives to describe stiffness

"If we single men have no wives and children of our own to fight for, Strides," observed Joyce, with a little military stiffness, "we have the wife and children of captain Willoughby; no man who wishes to sell his life dearly, need look for a better motive.

I'm afraid there's very little to be done now;" and in a lower tone, with his hand on poor Philip Feltram's arm, and so down to his fingers, he said in Sir Bale Mardykes' ear, with a shake of his head, "Here, you see, poor fellow, here's the cadaveric stiffness; it's very melancholy, but it's all over, he's gone; there's no good trying any more.

His face shone with satisfaction; he acquired a sudden stiffness of the spine.

The pieces of brocade still hid the magenta "suite," but arranged with a prim stiffness they lacked in our day.

" So much easy grace and adroitness succeeding the austere stiffness of M. Necker had been powerless to relieve the disorder of the finances; it was great and of ancient date.

"It is nothing much," he answers, with self-conscious stiffness, looking down and poking about the little dark pebbles with his cane; "nothing that you would care about.

It is generally in the course of the second day that the child complains of considerable stiffness in the muscles of the neck, extending to the lower jaw, and under the ears;of a roughness of the throat, and difficulty in swallowing;and some degree of hoarseness will be noticed: all so many indications that the throat is affected.

What had hitherto been treated with religious timidity, with conventional stiffness, or with realistic want of grandeur, was now humanised and at the same time transported into a higher intellectual region; and though Lionardo discrowned the Apostles of their aureoles, he for the first time in the history of painting created a Christ not unworthy to be worshipped as the praesens Deus.

Birthdays are infrequent; and besides, the enterprise of purchasing Maud had proved so complicated and tedious that Mrs. Lessways, with that curious stiffness which marked her sometimes, had sworn never to attempt to buy another book.

I saw that this flattered him a little, and gradually he began to lose some of his democratic stiffness, and enlarged upon the theme of Pani Celina's illness with the ready eagerness of a young scientist who has had no time yet to doubt his powers.

" He says this with a little of that doubtful stiffness, which sometimes owes its birth to shyness, and sometimes to self-consciousness; but he seems in no hurry to return to his friends, the big, blond soldiers.

I am sure, my dear Nancy"with a sort of embarrassed stiffness that yet means to be gracious"that I am extremely obliged to you, extremely; and though I regret that you should have wasted your money on meyetyetI assure you, I shall always prize it very highly.

The Scots are far from being a dull nation; they are lovers of pomp and shew; but then there is an eternal stiffness, a kind of affected dignity, which spoils their pleasures.

Starching is a process by which stiffness is communicated to certain parts of linen, as the collar and front of shirts, by dipping them in a paste made of starch boiled in water, mixed with a little gum Arabic, where extra stiffness is required.

He placed them at the house of an old, out-of-fashion aunt, who had been a keen partizan of the royal cause during the civil wars; she was full of the heroic stiffness of her own times, and would read books of Chivalry, and Romances with her spectacles.

A horse should not be sent on a journey or any other hard work immediately after new shoeing;the stiffness incidental to new shoes is not unlikely to bring him down.

And, indeed, one usually finds, in beginning the skating season, that after the initial stiffness of muscles wears off, one glides along with surprising agility.

People were a little afraid of him; but the fear was in themselves, not created by any intentional stiffness or coldness on his part.

For the last hour that he stood in the stream, his whole body was numb; he had ceased to feel life in his feet, and his arms worked with a mechanical stiffness like the arms of some automaton over which his mind had control.

ESMERALDA IN CLASS Keeping distancesCorners Proper place in the saddleExercises to correct nervous stiffness.

He was, indeed, a bright, cheery fellow, and although he was obliged to surround himself with a certain amount of official stiffness, he was a great favorite among officers and crew.

There was an ominous stiffness in his gait.

We perceive scarcely any of that peculiar stiffness of style which makes so many otherwise excellent translations painful to read,the stiffness as of one walking in new boots,the result of dressing the words of one language in the grammatical construction of another.

" "Very well," said Mrs. Fairfax, her patience yielding a little to his persistent stiffness: "be it so.

Here even the popular dances have much that is priestly, recalling the priestly stiffness of the sacred dances, and the circling frenzy of the priestess, who ended by falling in front of the altar with foaming mouth and bloodshot eyes.

43 adjectives to describe  stiffness