Sergeant Corney shouted, and the sound of his voice stiffened my courage wonderfully.

What I really came to ask isdo you want a job?" Juliet stiffened a little involuntarily.

You don't, do you?" Fielding had stiffened almost imperceptibly.

Avery stiffened instinctively.

Sir G. Buchanan to Sir E. Grey, July 27: 'Their (sc. the German) attitude would merely be stiffened by such a menace, and we could only induce her (sc. Germany) to use her influence at Vienna to avert war by approaching her in the capacity of a friend who was anxious to preserve peace.']

Above, the brook becomes a smooth black canal between two steep white banks; and the glassy water seems momentarily stiffening into the solider blackness of ice.

So badly did his misused body stiffen, that when he was called it required another ten minutes and a second glass of whiskey to unbend his joints and limber up the muscles.

In the morning he looked out on a world in which the spring had stiffened overnight into winter.

The face of Billy stiffened perceptibly; otherwise he moved not a muscle.

The side frames are connected across the ends, and cross stays are introduced beneath the boiler to stiffen the frame sideways, and prevent the ends of the connecting or eccentric rods from falling down if they should be broken.

The individual who manipulated with the table cloth afterwards made a prayer, universal in several of its sentiments; but stiffened up tightly with Mormon notions towards the close.

" With some difficulty having dragged off Potts' soaked parki, already stiffening unmanageably, the Boy tried to get him on his feet.

But on her last word she stiffened upward with a low cry of agony, shut her eyes and swung her head as if about to faint.

He pedalled earnestly and industriously, though obviously his legs had stiffened muscles, so that every movement gave him pain.

He paused, and then: "Where were you about midnight last night?" "I was"Barker's figure stiffened defensively, and his eyebrows drew down over the deep-set eyes"I was just shootin' some pool.