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Sentences starting with stiff

Stiff breeze, and we are fairly flying--dead ahead of it --and toward the islands. [5]

Sentences ending with stiff

She raised herself up, with difficulty, for the air was chilly and her limbs were stiff. [5]
How was I to know the highball was stiff? [9]
My, he's pretty stiff. [5]
There, Mr. Trimings, if that's your name, get me a glass of brandy, stiff. [4]
Part of his face was frozen stiff. [11]
It's full of excitement at times, it's hard work, it's stimulating when you're fighting, but other times it's deadly dull and bores me stiff. [11]
He had always been willing to accept Austen's judgment on men and affairs, but this was pretty stiff. [9]

Short sentences using stiff

I was stiff myself. [13]

More example sentences with the word stiff in them

Patiently and earnestly, with their stiff old fingers, they were trying to forge the required note. [5]
Saturday dawned clear, with a stiff March wind catching up the dust into eddies and whirling it down the street. [9]
There's a stiff wind; there's a good stout spray, and the wind and spray should cool their hot souls. [11]
But down-stream work was different; a boat was too nearly helpless, with a stiff current pushing behind her; so it was not customary to run down-stream at night in low water. [5]
She smiled a vacuous smile; she played "the lady" terribly, as, with a curious conception of dignity, she held her body stiff as a ramrod, and with a prim merci sailed into the street. [11]
Iberville himself came up slowly, for he was stiff and his limbs were shaking. [11]
He was of too good make to refuse it, stiff as it was. [11]
It is unsafe to let the lock rust; for, if once it has grown stiff, when we want to open it no pulling and wrenching will avail. [10]
But when trying to descend the rope-ladder from the high ship into the skiff in which sailors had rowed from the land, he made a misstep with his stiff leg and fell into the boat. [10]
Well then, farewell till we meet again on my boat; it is called the Euphrosyne, and lies out there, exactly opposite the two statues of the old king--who can remember these stiff barbarian names? [10]
His head was thrown far back, pressing down the stiff ruff, on which it seemed to rest as if it were a platter. [10]
On we went through the stiff, box-bordered walks of the garden, past the weather-beaten sundial and the spinning-house and the smoke-house to the stables. [9]
It must make the neck uncommonly stiff, methinks, to have a knightly escutcheon on door and breast, and yet be able to fling florins and zecchins broadcast without offending the devil by an empty purse. [10]
Creaking and pausing, the goosequill made large, stiff letters on the white surface. [10]
I came into the drawing-room, where Mrs. Winton was sitting up very stiff in a chair, beating me at my own game. [5]
It was Voban the barber, who had shaved me every day for months when I first came, while my arm was stiff from a wound got fighting the French on the Ohio. [11]
But holders were stiff, and we retired from the market again. [5]
He sat very stiff, and his manner of twisting his mustache reminded her of an animal sharpening its claws. [9]
This straight-backed and stiff necked man, who had never bowed his head save only in church and before the holy images of the saints, learnt now to stoop and bend. [10]
Yes, but a stiff little backbone, too, or he'd not have faced me down. [11]
He's got a stiff hand for the shirker and the wanton, but he's a man that knows his mind, and that's a good thing in Jamaica. [11]
But Hilary was stiff as in a rigour, expressionless save for the defiant red in his eye. [9]
This stout column, stiff as a flagstaff, with its feathery head of mist gleaming like silver in the failing light, had the most charming effect. [4]
The water becomes stiff and hard as clear stone. [5]
We did not stay at Zermatt, but pushed on for the hotel on the top of the Riffelberg,--a very stiff and tiresome climb of about three hours, an unending pull up a stony footpath. [4]
Her brothers and sisters followed at her heels, and when they saw their favorite sister bewailing herself they followed her example without knowing at first what Arsinoe was crying for, but soon with terror and horror at their father lying there stiff and disfigured. [10]
Beside him was Simon Chekmar, his personal attendant, an old horseman now somewhat stiff in the saddle. [2]
True, he had shown her much affection without words, but he was certainly as mute as a fish, and would, doubtless, have boasted and asked for thanks like anybody else, if indolence had not fettered his stiff tongue. [10]
And one time she stretched herself out 'n' laid jest as stiff as ef she was dead. [6]
She had a rose on her breast, her golden fillet looked like the crown of the Queen of Heaven, and in her robe of rich, stiff brocade she was like some great Saint. [10]
When the count returned, Natasha was impolitely pleased and hastened to get away: at that moment she hated the stiff, elderly princess, who could place her in such an embarrassing position and had spent half an hour with her without once mentioning Prince Andrew. [2]
Was this lady, restricted by a thousand petty scruples, as well as by her stiff, heavy gala robes, a genuine woman at all? [10]
She had almost reached him when, with a stiff jerk sideways and an angular artion of the figure, he came to the ground like a log, ungainly and rigid. [11]
Although the Maria proved a stiff boat and a seaworthy, she was not altogether without motion; and the set expression on Farrar's face would have told me, had I not known it, that our situation at that moment was no joke. [9]
These tentacles are prolongations of the true skin, and therefore are not homologous with the stiff hairs of the former species; but it can hardly be doubted that both serve the same purpose. [1]
To these succeeded pert cottages, two and two with plots of ground in front, laid out in angular beds with stiff box borders and narrow paths between, where footstep never strayed to make the gravel rough. [12]
Munich society is perhaps chargeable with being a little stiff and exclusive. [4]
The huge puffs on the upper part of the sleeves touched the cheeks of many of the wearers, and the lace ruffs on the stiff collars rendered it easy, it is true, to maintain their aristocratic, haughty dignity, but prevented any free, swift movement. [10]
Pierre swung round on the bench, leaning upon the other elbow, and, cherishing his cigarette, presently continued: "She had come far and was tired to death, so stiff that she could hardly get from her horse; and the horse too was ready to drop. [11]
He stood sort of stiff, bendin' a little, an' both his arms were crooked an' his hands looked like a hawk's claws. [13]
Her story was not to cease when she was laid away in the stiff graveyard behind the Meeting-house. [11]
We could see nearly the whole of it, at a great height above us, on the opposite side of the river, and it would require an hour's stiff climb to reach its foot. [4]
How much it must cost him to bow his stiff neck before her, who was so much younger, and approach her father, whose heart he had so pitilessly trampled under foot, in the character of a supplicant for aid, perhaps a beggar! [10]
Save us," exclaimed Mrs. Reed, "but she was stiff as starched crepe. [9]
Tall men-at-arms in morion, breastplate, and steel gauntlets stood as stiff as their own halberds on each side of this dais, but no other creature was near by it. [5]
Then Mr. Colfax made a stiff bow. [9]
I passed the line around one of them right on the edge of the cut bank, but there was a stiff current, and the raft come booming down so lively she tore it out by the roots and away she went. [5]
I go through life stiff and straight, do my duty cheerfully; my cheeks are rosy, my food has a relish, yet I've been obliged to resign what was dearest to me. [10]
And as we lay waiting on the hard ground, stiff and cold and hungry, talking in whispers, somewhere near six of the clock on that February morning the great square of Fort Sackville began to take shape. [9]
He got up, lame, stiff, and half famished, washed himself in the river, stayed his stomach with a pint or two of water, and trudged off toward Westminster, grumbling at himself for having wasted so much time. [5]
Tell Orion to keep a stiff upper lip--when the worst comes to the worst I will come forward. [5]
So incredibly short it was, and so incredibly stiff, that it reminded her of the needle points on the cylinder of an old-fashioned music-box; and she wondered, if it were properly inserted, what would be the resultant melody. [9]
We both grabbed it and pulled, bringing to life a person with little blue eyes and stiff blond hair. [9]
Our army sword is the short, stiff, pointed gladius of the Romans; and the American bowie-knife is the same tool, modified to meet the daily wants of civil society. [6]
But the wart-hog is not destitute of other special means of protection, for it has, on each side of the face, beneath the eyes, a rather stiff, yet flexible, cartilaginous, oblong pad (Fig. [1]
When the mistress is absent, this room, although everything is here as it was before, does not look at all like the same place; it is stiff, and seems to lack a soul. [4]
All on an instant the four made a rush on the giant; and there was a stiff minute after, in which it was not clear that he was happy. [11]
I think John's imagination was worked upon by the sweet and mournful hymns that were discordantly sung in the stiff old parlors. [4]
As an orderly Ibrahim was like a clock: stiff in his gait as a pendulum, regular as a minute. [11]
All this time I was struggling in my bonds; and at last, about dawn, I got myself free, and rose up and stretched my stiff limbs. [5]
One of his hind legs bends the wrong way, and the other one is as straight and stiff as a tent-pole. [5]
The stiff, fashionable high Spanish ruff no longer confined his handsome head with its floating golden locks. [10]
She got a heavy fall yesterday evening and was pretty stiff and lame this morning, but is working it off trunk packing. [5]
We had been hearing, for weeks, of a small lake in the heart of the virgin forest, some ten miles from our camp, which was alive with trout, unsophisticated, hungry trout: the inlet to it was described as stiff with them. [4]
Wrangle stood stiff head high, with his long ears erect. [13]
The very clothes he wore were made for the steel engraving, stiff and wiry in texture, with sharp angles at the shoulders, and sombre in hue, as befit such grave creations. [9]
He knew how he was regarded, and perhaps this fact added some trifle of stiffening to his natural dignity, which had been sufficiently stiff in its original state. [5]
This appendix could hardly have been written earlier than towards the end of the last century, to judge by the paper, the stiff, old-fashioned handwriting and, more surely still, by the fact that the writer mentions vaccination as a new discovery. [10]
It is often hard to us old men to heave stones and bend our stiff backs for so long together, but we are nearer than you younger ones to the happy future. [10]
Besides, his father-in-law had so earnestly enjoined it upon him to put no obstacle in the way of his desire to make peace with the Ortliebs that he was obliged to bow his stiff neck to them. [10]
He began to gag and gasp, and his eyes to stand out, and his forelegs to spread, and in about a quarter of a minute he fell over as stiff as a carpenter's work-bench, and died a death of indescribable agony. [5]
Iberville was bleeding from the wound in his side and slightly stiff from the slash of the night before, but every fibre of his hurt body was on the defensive. [11]
Under a glass French clock dome, large bouquet of stiff flowers done in corpsy-white wax. [5]
Opposite, in gilt frame, grandpa and grandma, at thirty and twenty-two, stiff, old-fashioned, high-collared, puff-sleeved, glaring pallidly out from a background of solid Egyptian night. [5]
He won't stand for being held up, and he'd be stiff enough if it came to a strike. [9]
When the parlour's finished I'll have to wear a stiff collar, I suppose, in order to live up to it. [9]
His shy blue eyes and stiff blond hair gave him a strange appearance in a hunting shirt. [9]
As we approached each other, I saw that he wore a plumed helmet, and seemed to be otherwise clothed in steel, but bore a curious addition also--a stiff square garment like a herald's tabard. [5]
Britannia was gorgeously dressed in a queer kind of hat of stiff purple and silver stuff, that had marvelously the appearance of copper, and made us suppose that she had procured the real Mambrino helmet. [4]
When Kruger's men did discover the truth, there would be fighting as stiff as had been seen in this struggle for half a continent. [11]
Habits are the crutches of old age; by the aid of these we manage to hobble along after the mental joints are stiff and the muscles rheumatic, to speak metaphorically,--that is to say, when every act of self-determination costs an effort and a pang. [6]
You hed thet crowd too stiff fer throwin' guns. [13]
It is a common saying of a jockey, that he is "all horse"; and I have often fancied that milkmen get a stiff, upright carriage, and an angular movement of the arm, that remind one of a pump and the working of its handle. [6]
It was a cold night, and she was nearly as stiff as her armor itself when we resumed the march in the morning, for iron is not good material for a blanket. [5]
Mr. Vane, he came around here on Sunday, and gave him as stiff a talkin' to as he ever got, I guess. [9]
And she began, but somehow the letter seemed stiff and to lack the old confiding tone. [4]
The wind, tho' blowing stiff, was mild, and league after league of the green sea danced and foamed in the morning sunlight, and I perceived that I was on a large schooner under full sail, the crew of which were littered about at different occupations. [9]
But instead of being greeted with pleasure as she had expected, at his first glance at her his face assumed a cold, stiff, proud expression she had not seen on it before. [2]
Her arm-bone was badly broken and her right hand remained so stiff, notwithstanding Master Hartmann Knorr's best skill, that she could no more use the pen save with great pain, albeit she often after this rode on horseback. [10]
Another had been attended to by a burying-party, who had thrown some earth over him but his last bed-clothes were too short, and his legs stuck out stark and stiff from beneath the gravel coverlet. [6]
My old bones are stiff and set; it would be vain now to try to bend them. [10]
Mr. Howells's pictures are not mere stiff, hard, accurate photographs; they are photographs with feeling in them, and sentiment, photographs taken in a dream, one might say. [5]
Washington, very stiff and tired and hungry, climbed out, and wondered how he was to proceed now. [5]
Even the temple-servants, and the miserable troops from Upper Egypt-ground down by the long war, and bought over by Ani--were carried away by the universal enthusiasm, and joyfully hailed the hero and king who had successfully broken the stiff necks of his enemies. [10]
We were cold and stiff and the horses were tired. [5]
And at length, after some five hours of stiff walking, we saw the brown Nith below us going down to meet the Solway, and so came to the entrance of Mr. Craik's place. [9]
Some had fillets adorned with plumes that waved around brows, temples, and the stiff structures of false curls that floated over their shoulders; others displayed the glistening bareness of their smoothly-shaven skulls. [10]
And so after a stiff lecture from the Colonel he was finally given back into the custody of his father. [9]
Armour poured out a stiff draught, added a very little water, and drank it. [11]
They stood for a long time looking down at the foot of the American Fall, the moon now showing clearly the plunge of the heavy column--a column as stiff as if it were melted silver-hushed and frightened by the weird and appalling scene. [4]

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