The only one who was a little stiff with him and expressed no desire to meet him again was Corti, the Italian plenipotentiary.

My joints were swollen with the bonds, and every sinew seemed as stiff as wire.

He finished up the fish himself, then sat on his heels by the fire, scorching his face while his back froze, or wheeling round and singeing his new parki while his hands grew stiff in spite of seal-skin mittens.

"You must have got stiff from standing still after the late mix-up.

Gloria stood confronting him, tense, rigid, white-faced, her hands stiff at her sides.

I'll ride a hunter I've got; he's rather stiffer than Adonis, and better up to rough work.

Arthur made his body stiff like a rod, and held himself close, for he was passing strong.

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.

" "I got the big stiff on the run!"

It was rather stiff for a while, and after tea we all went home; and for three long years Miss Jaynes never opened her face to me, until I came here to live, this time.

"I think," suggested Pastor Drury, "that what Mr. Conover means is that we'd better be a little less stiff to newcomers than the Indian was to us.

The effect is awkward, and not to be practised in public, but the exercise enables you to perceive for yourself when you are stiff about the shoulders and waist.

Hofmannus, a Lutheran professor of Helmstad, and many of his followers, with most of our church, and papists, are stiff against it.

"The whole town," he remarked casually, "seems scared stiff by this Butch; but of course he ain't comin' back to-night.

"Going to have it good and stiff before morning," he said, "just as I told you.

They piled the stiffs outside the door; They made, I reckon, a cord or more.

Times gets stiff around Biscoe.

The life made me hard and watchful, trusting no man, and brusque and stiff towards the world.

There was some one within hearing or liable to come within hearing, who possibly was not so stiff under temptation.

But Jumbo always evaded his quick rushes till Ware, after many false moves, finally made a sudden and unforeseen dash, seized Jumbo's right hand with both of his, whirled in close, and, with his back against Jumbo's chest, carried the Lakerimmer's right arm straight and stiff across his shoulder.

But to Anne, after the tedious formality of the second table at the palace, stiff without refinement, this free family life was perfectly delightful and refreshing, though as yet she was too much cramped, as it were, by long stiffness, silence, and treatment as an inferior to join, except by the intelligent dancing of her brown eyes, and replies when directly addressed.

Here are several monuments with marble figures recumbent upon them, representing the Earls in their knightly armor, and their dames in the ruffs and court-finery of their day, looking hardly stiffer in stone than they must needs have been in their starched linen and embroidery.

I had not seen Aunt Jane, except in church, since the day that she dismissed me, but she was no stiffer than usual, and gave me the candle readily enough.

An egg-beater or an egg-whip is the most convenient utensil for the purpose; but if either of these is not to be had, a silver fork will do very well, and with this the beating should be done in sharp, quick strokes, dipping the fork in and out in rapid succession, while the egg should grow firmer and stiffer with every stroke.

But scores of good fellows were left behind him, stretched out all stiff beneath the sweet green boughs.