The big major walked stiffly and pompously along, swinging his silver-trimmed cane in one hand while Patricia clung to his other arm.

When the Froments passed by, it was a fine sight to see the Lepailleurs standing there stiffly and devouring them with their eyes.

My fellow-guest was a large doll braced stiffly in its chair; a doll whose waxen face had been gouged by vandal nails.

The man half arose, moving stiffly.

Lady Egerton bowed stiffly to the recognising smile the dowager now condescended to bestow; but Sarah, remembering a certain handsome lord in the family, was more urbane, determining at the moment to make the promotion of her mother and sister stepping-stones to greater elevation for herself.

she exclaimed stiffly.

Falconer got up slowly and stiffly.

Near the road the trees are planted stiffly in rows, but when another and smaller bridge has been traversed, the beauty of the Park is manifest.

" McRae reproved him stiffly.

" "This pearl, sir," said Uncle John stiffly, "is not the one you refer to.

" "So I thoughtso I thoughtwell, then, I was gladyes, really rejoiced at heart, to hear that my countrymen, down-east, there, had made the king's troops scamper," "I am not aware that I used any such terms, sir, in connection with the manner in which we marched in, after the duty we went out on was performed," returned the young soldier, a little stiffly.

" "No man will see me shrink from a duty, O'Hearn," said Joyce, stiffly, while with the utmost difficulty he kept the tears from breaking out of a fountain that had not opened, in this way, for twenty years.

Yet for all that, how stiffly struts he by, All trappéd in the new-found bravery.

" "As you please," said John Anderson stiffly, "I thought that as business is dull that I would show you a chance, that would yield you a handsome profit; but if you refuse, there is no harm done.

There are (or once were) the prim squares, each with its cowslip border, and the stiffly regular little hedgerows.

Mr. Smith got his lease, and paid for it tolerably stiffly, for at that period all agricultural prices were inflatedfrom the price of a lease to that of a calf.

McDunn's battery roused itself to reply, but muddy staff-officers arrived at full speed with orders for Claymore to make haste; and the starving command staggered off stiffly through the mud, their ears sickened by the piteous appeals of the wounded begging not to be abandoned.

'I don't follow you,' he said stiffly.

'The gentleman mistakes me, Sir George,' he said stiffly.

she shrieked, and, turning stiffly, she went mumbling and cursing down the stairs, the lace lappets of her head trembling, and her gold-headed cane now thumping the floor, now waving uncertainly in the air.

Admitted by Dr. Addington, he looked round, bowed stiffly to the physician, and lowly and with humility to Lord Chatham and her ladyship; then, taking his stand at the foot of the table, he produced his papers with an air of modest self-possession.

Then stiffly, and looking from his visitor to the house and back again, 'But, pardon me, sir, if there is any matter of business, any offer to be made to my client, it were well, I thinkif it were made through me.' I thank you,' Sir George answered.

he gasped; 'Christina! ye canna mean it serious!' 'Good-bye,' she said stiffly, stepping back.

'Hurray!' yelled Willie, and rose stiffly to his feet.

In his vehemence, the speaker wagged his chin and held his clenched fists stiffly toward the floor.