Now at five an' sixty Aw'm byeth stiff an' cauld.

"As stiff a contest, for four or five hours," said the Lord-General, "as ever I have seen."

Her pride was to see the boys in the largest possible collars and stiffest possible cravats, which she deemed highly classical.

And up stood stiff his thin white hair, And his blind eyes flashèd fire.

Then Geordy held the bairn, But sair agyen his will, The poor bit thing wes gud, But Geordy had ne skill, He haddint its muther's ways, He sat both stiff an' num, Before five minutes wes past He wished its muther wad cum!

Imagine Sir Marmaduke de Chavasse standing there, as stiff a Roundhead as ever upheld my Lord Protector and his Puritanic government in this remote corner of the county of Kent: dour in manner, harsh-featured and hollow-eyed, dressed in dark doublet and breeches wholly void of tags, ribands or buttons.

ALMOND MACAROONS WITH FIGS Beat stiff the whites of three eggs, add one-half pound of sugar, and one-half pound of finely cut figs, one-half pound of either blanched almonds cut into long slices, or cut up walnuts.