30 adverbs to describe how to stiffer

I felt horribly stiff, and my leg was numb, from the knee, downward.

It was a relief, after looking upon the distressingly stiff figures of the old German school, to view these fresh, natural countenances.

Tom made an exceedingly stiff bow.

My leg is a trifle stiff to-day for stiles, but still" Miss Drewitt gave way at once, and, taking his arm, begged him to lean on her, questioning him anxiously as to his fitness for a walk in any direction.

After a time she investigated Piers' room beyond, and found it less imposing though curiously stiff and wholly lacking in ordinary cheery comfort.

Six years after, she fell again on the same knee, so twisting it and injuring the ligaments that it became partially stiff, and, the physician said, incurable.

We always took another drink when we saw it going up from the dead and dying, and usually we took two or three more drinks, mixing them exceptionally stiff.

Moreover the monarch's attire was excessively stiff and cumbrous, and this, while it added to the natural ungainliness of his person, prevented all freedom of movement, especially on horseback.

Eleonora Vivian, hitherto gravely stiff and reserved, to poor Frank's evident chagrin, at once flashed into animation, and met the elder Miss Bowater with outstretched hands, receiving a warm kiss.

I could feel my heart grow as bitterly cold as my demeanour was icily stiff, when I stood up and said curtly: "This is a great surprise, Mr Beecham.

It is true, for example, that Scott had an incomparably stiff and pedantic way of dealing with his heroines: he made a lively girl of eighteen refuse an offer in the language of Dr Johnson.

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I'm mighty stiff and numb, sir.

On the south the land lifts in a moderately stiff bluff, perhaps seventy feet high, with wooded edges, and extending off and away in a plateau, where trees stand in well-thinned groves, and sunken roads meander between fields of hops and grain and patches of cabbages and sugar beets.

She has a crippled knee, and both of her hands are peculiarly stiff in the finger joints, one more so than the other.

As I came into the room he rose with a perceptibly stiff movement and extended his left hand.

The place is positively stiff with happy endings.

After the traces of bread and butter were all wiped away, they came hobbling up (for the poor knees were sadly stiff and lame), and wedged themselves, one on each side of me, in the window seat of the den, where I was watching for the smoke of Evan's train, my signal for going down the road.

There is another "David," by Donatello, in marble; also in the Bargello, scarcely less stiff and ugly than the "Baptist." [90] The cast was published by the Arundel Society.

They were ragged and strangely stiff, it looked as if their branches never moved, and the dark gaps between the trunks were somehow forbidding.

And ordinarily, in the best rooms of one another, the ladies became spontaneously, rigidly formal as they assembled, speaking in tones suitably stiff of the day's paper, or viewing with hushed esteem those art treasures that surrounded them.

Much of the ballast was again on board the lugger, and a few of her stores, sufficient to render her tolerably stiff, in the event of a breeze springing up; and Raoul had directed the two inside guns of the felucca to be sent on board her and mounted, that she might assist in the defence with a flanking fire.

His manners were quiet, and would not have been disagreeable, but for an air of uncomfortably stiff solemnity, which draped him from head to foot like a robe of moral oilcloth, and might almost be said to rustle audibly.

When we asked them up to the table, they held right back, awfully stiff, and couldn't find anything else to say than,out quite loud, across everything,'O

He looked, I thought, so stiff, so unnaturally stiff, and in some indefinable way, too, he looked smallershrunken.

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