His eye held a , his gold ring bore a seal, and his voice was a stilted .

If the term is applied to their shuffling off of this mortal coil, the use is euphemistic and likely to be stilted.

His proclamation, in the stilted phrase common to such state papers, declared that he relied upon "the assistance of that God who is visibly with us; of that God who has given Pius IX to Italy; of that God who, by such wondrous impulses, has placed her in a condition to act for herself."

" "More can one not ask of thee," Fra Paolo answered, suddenly unbending from the stilted mood of his last words.

Other Norman-French poems were written in England on the rebellion, on the conquest of Ireland, on the life of the martyred Thomaspoems which threw off the formal rules of the stilted Latin fashion, and embodied the tales of eye-witnesses with their graphic brief descriptions.

After censuring the affectation to be found in the letters of Balzac and Voiture, the learned Abbé says: "The letters of Leontium, although novel in their form of expression, although replete with philosophy, and sparkling with wit and intelligence contain nothing stilted, or overdrawn.

In the eyes of a clear sighted man, all this rubbish of stilted phrases is but a parade at which he mocks, and which does not prevent him from penetrating their real sentiments.

Then we shrank back from our first glimpse of a little swamp of foul brown water, backed up by the sand-brush, with trees in every stage of decay, fallen and tangled into a doleful thicket, through which the spider-legged Mangroves rose on stilted roots.

Adj. elevated &c v.; stilted, attollent^, rampant.

Its language was felicitous in some spots, but stilted in most; the erudition was pedantic, and dragged in by the ears; the action was idiotic; and the proportions were padded until they no longer existed as proportions.

" In the face of these enthusiastic, if somewhat stilted, periods the majority of his colleagues remained cold, and no appropriation was voted.

Although her husband had many qualifications for writing prose fictioninsight into and appreciation of character, combined with much tragic force and a real gift for descriptionthere is reason to think that he would have been stilted and artificial in dialogue, and altogether wanting in lightness of hand.

It is written in the unformed and somewhat stilted style which he had not yet got rid of, and, with characteristic reticence, it deals only indirectly with the details of the experience through which he has passed, being in form a disquisition on the importance of personal religion, and a refutation of objections which might occur to his correspondent against making it the main interest of his life.

Not a look or word, however, of mine was permitted to disturb the gentleman in his stilted notions. 16th.

" "My good woman, that dress has been described, to the last stilted arch and Colonial volute, in every newspaper in the United States!"

The omission of these details not only weakened the support given to the arches of the dome, but it also lent a stilted effect to the cupola by abruptly separating the perpendicular lines of the drum and attic from the segment of the vaulting.

What I wanted was an example,not too stilted to be useful,a life flowing out of circumstances not dissimilar to their own, but marked by a steady will, an unswerving purpose.

As one poet wrote, in stilted Latin: "A remarkable man weds a remarkable woman.

He had painted the soul of the girl in the body of the woman of thirty, and if he rendered his subject in a manner more stilted than usual, he repaid her in the real interest with which her portrait was invested.

After greeting the gods of his House, the King, in brief and stilted phrase, acknowledges the loyalty of the chorus, but hints at much that is amiss which it must be his first charge to set right.

You will respect my wishes in this matter, will you not, my daughter?" It was all very stilted, almost melodramatic, but my father was so much in earnest that I readily gave the promise he asked.

The author passes at times abruptly from careful and loving realism to the most stilted conventionality, and from passages of impassioned eloquence to others grotesquely banal.

It is just as formal, just as much a trick, just as stilted and unpliable, just as painful an illustration of the fact that a figure of rhetoric may be an occasional ornament, but cannot by any degree of ingenuity be made to serve as a basis of composition.

The legs of tables are generally fluted, as noticed above, tapering towards the feet, and are relieved from a stilted appearance by being connected by a stretcher.

PART, PORTION."Part is the general word for that which is less than the whole: as, the whole is equal to the sum of all its parts.... Portion is often used in a stilted way where part would be simpler and better; portion has always some suggestion of allotment or assignment: as, this is my portion; a portion of Scripture.