It was an odd, stiff letter, and yet that afternoon when Emily had received it she laughed and placed it inside the folds of her primrose dress; although a moment afterward she sighed with the thought of the lonely hour before sunset.
The grid is laid on a flat surface and the paste forced into the perforations with a stiff knife or spatula.
The positive plate is made in the following manner: Make a stiff paste of red lead and sulphuric acid; using a solution, say, of one part of acid to two parts of water.
If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth if the other do.
Here sits the Madonna, in stiff solemnity, holding her child on her lap.
Both faces look directly out at the spectator, with grave and stiff solemnity.
We shall soon ascertain how stiff she is," added Donald, as a heavy flaw heeled the yacht over, till she buried her rail in the water.
The Sea Foam heeled over, as the blast struck her sails, till her rail went under; but Donald knew just what she would bear, and kept the tiller stiff in his hand.
Everything has been done upon honor, and she will be stiff enough to cross the Atlantic in mid-winter.
The rope was thrown into the tender, to which the end of it was made fast, and the jib, crackling and banging in the stiff breeze, now almost a gale, went up in an instant.
About a year after the birth of her child, being laughed at for her superstition, she was thrown into a state of rigid spasm, and became as cold and stiff as a corpse.
And so I turned, puckering my lips to a smile that did not come easily, for my face was stiff and my spirit sore.
The stiff green withes rattled against our canoes like hail, and gave warning of our approach for a half mile distant.
These walls run parallel with the soft partitions, although they do not rise to the same height, and they form the radiating lines like stiff lamellae, so conspicuous when all the soft parts of the body are drawn in.
There are but four chymiferous tubes in the Campanella, and four stiff tentacles, which in consequence of the peculiar character of the veil appear, when the animal is seen in profile, to start from the middle of the disk.
We had a short walk over the sands going east, and then one of the stiff climbs, now becoming quite familiar, up the mountains, but we climbed leisurely, picking and eating berries as we went.
We had now a short but stiff climb; holding on to tufts of stubbly reed-like grass we pulled ourselves up to the top of the cliff.
This was done, but now a stiff breeze began to blow, which obliged us to leave off rowing and make sail at once and steer for Oran, as it was impossible to make any other course.
It closely resembles that species in habits and language, and also assimilates to it in colour and in the rather long, curved beak, sharp claws, stout body, and short stiff tail.
Then Betty kissed me and we both shook hands with Marigold, who stood very stiff and determined and cleared his throat and swallowed something as though he were expected to make a speech.
Sergeant Marigold stood stiff as a ramrod on the spot which Tufton had occupied.
My young friend must have paid a stiff price; but Phyllis and peace were worth it; and I have said that Randall is a young man of fortune.
In less than two minutes, by the watch, he had skinned the seal, leaving on the carcass nothing but a small patch of the upper lip where the stiff mustache grows, the insignificant tail, and the coarse hide of the flippers.
For the man who can ride straight to hounds and hold his own over a stiff country must possess some qualities which are not to be despised.
She had been robed by her cousin's bounteous hand, and her dress ofstiff yellow brocade burned in the morning light with almost as much brilliance as the sunshine itself.
I hate your humble home, I hate your stiff Dutch kitchen, I hate your sordid ways and the decent respectability that is all you can offer me.
Denbigh, losing his balance, fell prostrate on the ground, which was here soft enough to break his fall but sufficiently stiff to prevent him from being swallowed up in the mud.
But these fellows evidently mean to put up a stiff fight.
I will hold the cup for you; I see that your fingers are so stiff from cold, that you can't take it yourself.
Tis said that he and De Tonty have had many a stiff quarrel since he came; but he dare not go too far.
They appear more numerous than they are," he answered confidently, "but it will be a stiff fight.
His dress was that of a courier du bois, with no trace of uniform save the blue forage cap gripped in one hand, yet he stood stiff as if on parade.
That we may, in time, come to have not an occasional stiff haulm with a big ear, but a whole crop of them, must be the prayer of all who believe in education and race-progress.
Turner closed the cupboard and locked it, without ceasing to watch Colville, who was struggling with the stiff fastening of the outer sash.
It was fitted with a short, stiffmast and a balance lug-sail.
From his position he looked across the courtyard toward the garden where stiff cypress-trees stood sentry among the mignonette and the roses, now in the full glory of their autumn bloom.
He was quicker in his movements than those who usually handled these stiff ropes and held the clumsy tiller.
Yet now this bowed dark head, and the rim of brown throat between the short, thick hair and the stiffwhite collar, looked somehow familiar, as if the man who knelt there had always been hers.
You've been so stiff and different since I came back and found you turned into Sister Rose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stiff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
