Slow and stiffly Duke Beltane dismounted, and reeling in his gait, came and knelt beside Black Ivo and loosed off his riven helm.

Colonel Clifford, though proud as Lucifer, was accessible and stiffly civil to humble folk.

10. rejects; but, as I say, [2540]Jovianus Pontanus and others stiffly defend.

He had such a quizzical entertaining look in his keen eyehe was being stiffly deferential to one of the ladies, a Mrs. Welsh, who was talking to him so brightly.

Perhaps a little over-confident sometimes, and stiffly individual, dropping society clean out of his theories, while standing friendly in his strict sense of friendship, there is in him an integrity and sense of justice that make possible and actual the virtues of Sparta and the Stoics, and all the more welcome to us in these times of shuffling and of pusillanimity.

She was tall, thin, and stiffly distinguished in the brusque, Dutch-doll motions of her limbs.