Vienna, stiffness of court at.

My short arm lacked reach and vigour, and there seemed to be some stiffness in wrist and elbow and shoulder which compelled me to yield to smaller men.

he sighed, trying to rub the stiffness out of his hands over the smoke, "the appetite a fella can raise up here is something terrible.

He should also occasionally, when sitting or lying down, quietly bend the joint backwards and forwards, to cause its natural motion to return, and to prevent stiffness from taking place.

We perceive scarcely any of that peculiar stiffness of style which makes so many otherwise excellent translations painful to read,the stiffness as of one walking in new boots,the result of dressing the words of one language in the grammatical construction of another.

He was an unusually large, well-made man, and reminded me of a fine building going to ruin before its time; for the broad shoulders were bent, there was a stiffness about the long legs suggestive of wounds or rheumatism, and the curly hair looked as if snow had fallen on it too soon.

There is no reason to worry about a little stiffness during the first lessons.

At first I thought they seemed small, but a stiffness due to cold and dryness misled mea little stretching and all was well.

After all, Tahiti was very simple, and even officialdom could not import aristocracy or stiffness into a climate where starch melted before one could impress a spectator.

For the last hour that he stood in the stream, his whole body was numb; he had ceased to feel life in his feet, and his arms worked with a mechanical stiffness like the arms of some automaton over which his mind had control.

There was a certain stiffness between him and Murray during the next few days, but they kept company to and from school as usual.

"Jump in, Juliet," cried their driver, addressing her with the greater abandon that she was resolved no stiffness on her part should deposit a grain to the silting up of the channel of former affection.

Why this stiffness among fellow travelers on a little river packet?

To a candid friend who reported to him that his bows were considered to be too stiff, he replied: "Would it not have been better to throw the veil of charity over them, ascribing their stiffness to the effects of age, or to the unskillfulness of my teacher, rather than to pride and dignity of office, which God knows has no charm for me?"

The Colonel was working off the surprising stiffness with which he had wakened, and they were both warm now; but the Colonel's footsoreness was considerable, an affliction, besides, bound to be worse before it was better.