And thus stood they, side by side, until the tramp of feet was died away, until the last trembling villager had slunk from sight and the broad road was deserted, all save for Cuthbert the esquire, and divers horses that lay stiffly in the dust, silent and very still.

"Mr. Nesbit,SturgeonHerr KempnerHerr Teppich,"he bowed stiffly to each, ran the battery of their inspection, and found himself saluting three other persons at the end of the room, under a rosy, moon-bellied lantern.

" Gloria got down stiffly from her saddle.

The girl sat down stiffly on the edge of a chair.

And he sat stiffly at the table, looking at her and through her with a fixed smile.

And the colonel turned on his heel, and walked stiffly through the garden.

Heywood led the way, past two ducking Chinese clerks, into a sombre room, stone-floored, furnished stiffly with a row of carved chairs against the wall, lighted coldly by roof-windows of placuna, and a lamp smoking before some commercial god in his ebony and tinsel shrine.

For Donnegan was in black, and he had a white neckcloth wrapped as high and stiffly as an old-fashioned stock.

"By standin' out stiffly against their fool talk, though there ain't much chance you can convince 'em with words; but if one, or half a dozen, for that matter, gives me an openin', I'll see if the weight of my fist can't beat some sense into them.

His lips were trembling and they writhed stiffly over his words.

And then my going away right after" David strode over to the piano and sat there silent, his head sunk on his chest, his short arms stiffly before him.

"We can arrange some ground ofof common action, some" He settled the lapels of his great-coat with precision, addressed his palm to the knob of his stick, and marched stiffly out of the library, around the piazza, and along the dismantled walk to the front gate.

Suddenly he ran after the old lawyer, and rounded the turn of the piazza in time to see him walk stiffly down the shaded street with tremulous dignity.

He reached the door, his arms still held stiffly above his head, but, at the sight of the masked faces, one arm dropped to his side, and the other fell across his face.

Kicking off their chaps the cowboys tossed them on the riding gear, piled already against the fence of the corral, and straggled stiffly toward the house.

But the image it brought him was not that of a human form stretched stiffly within the black boards of a coffin.

Their drawing-room was also very large; the chairs (innumerable, it seemed to me) stood stiffly around the walls of the room.

She held herself stiffly beside him, showing the profile of a small Sphinx.

He swore one great oath, for he saw, at least, that the meeting boded him 110 good; then he sat motionless in his saddle, his left hand on the pommel, his right held stiffly by his side.

"R-r-r-i-g-h-t D-r-r-e-s-s!" Heads whirled to the right as though turned by a single screw, and bent-up left elbows pressed stiffly into neighboring ribs.

She drooped there, hands in her lap, wrists crossed, palms turned upward and fingers curled stiffly like clawsfrom holding to the jarring handle of the junk-cart.

Stretching and shaking himself with a free gesture, the black man, seeing himself unobserved, moved somewhat stiffly round the end of the car to the station platform.

Meanwhile, since the first mention of picnic, the child Monona had been dancing stiffly about the room, knees stiff, elbows stiff, shoulders immovable, her straight hair flapping about her face.