There were two neat little holes in the trouser leg, where a bullet had gone through, and a patch of blood, which stiffened the cloth all round them.
He had, therefore, brought up every coolie he could find, armed them with every weapon he could lay his hands on, and stiffened their wavering ranks with the disciplined men from the forts and what blue-jackets he could muster.
The waters broke my hollow trance, And with a temporary strength My stiffened limbs were rebaptized.
He stiffened every muscle, gave a supreme effort, and up went the ladder.
The gun arm stiffened in air as the whiplike, authoritative phrase reached its possessor and, grinning exultantly, the puncher wheeled to get a good look at his next victim.
He stiffened convulsively, whirled halfway around and pitched headlong under the table, dead before he touched the floor.
He stiffened suddenly and sat up, excitement transforming him.
Lucy stiffened as he got the idea that the rain wouldn't hurt him.
Behind the screen the hidden one stiffened where she crouched with fierce brow and fixed eyes.
But on her last word she stiffened upward with a low cry of agony, shut her eyes and swung her head as if about to faint.
A scant quarter past six o'clock it might have been, when he opened his fire-box to throw in a stick or two more of fuel and to warm his stiffened fingers in the flame.
But shestiffened herself, and though she felt the blood dyeing her face, she sang on sturdily.
His huge frame stiffened haughtily, as he drew himself up.
She set her teeth over her lip to stop its trembling, and stiffened herself to the iron composure of a shield-maiden.
But Sigurd stiffened as quickly as he had relaxed.
The blood surged into Alwin's eyes; his muscles stiffened into iron.
His body stiffened suddenly, and he flung his arms high above his head and clenched his hands in agony.
He gave himself up for lost, and stiffened himself to die bravely,--as became Earl Edmund's son.
So Rayton took Nell home, and Nash, Banks, Harley and the old servant drove over to the dead man's house, taking the shrunken and stiffened clay along with them in the back of the pung.
He stiffened up, clicked his heels again, saluted, and the next moment he had thrown his right leg across the horse which the orderly had brought up for him.
The chances against anything like--" Moira grunted and stiffened for a moment.
He stiffened again when he realized that Greer had abruptly begun to talk shop.
The pugilist had huge, misshapen paws that could scarcely explore his own, much less another's pockets, and his stiffened fingers could not palm a coin in the dark, yet a stranger had accused him of deftly lifting a watch.
Lilas shrieked, and Bob stiffened himself, then slipped an arm around his bride.
Unusually talkative and restless, he had suddenly hardened and stiffened to a repressed, tense calm; speechless, almost rigid in his chair.
Ask the old Washington residents whether the coming in of rich people with leisure hasn't demoralized society, or stiffened it, and made it impossible after the old sort.
His fingersstiffened and slid on the slippery flesh.
His opponent wriggled in his arms, stiffenedand crushed against him.
Divining his purpose, the big man stiffened as he caught a glimpse of the sea over his shoulder.
The salt-stiffened canvas unrolled as the men laid their burden down, exposing the body of a huge fisherman.
Picardil is the diminutive of "picca," a pike or spear head, and was given to this article of attire from the resemblance of its stiffened edges to the points of spears.
She wears a black dress with stiffenedcollar behind, ornamented with gold embroidery, open at the neck, disclosing a pink bodice also richly embroidered, the sleeves furred at the elbows.
That book of rules stiffened his match play tremendously, besides making his opponents want to murder him.
He had suddenly stiffened in every muscle and joint--gone tense with the nervous strain.
My word, it's just as if getting into your armour had stiffened you all over.
O'Flynn mixed and handed up the mud-mortar, while Mac put in some brisk work with it before it stiffened in the increasing cold.
The Pymeuts knew that the great thing was to get the ice-stiffened clothes off as quickly as might be, and that is to be done expeditiously only by cutting them off.
There lay the skeleton-like frames with stiffened legs and glassy eyes staring fixedly at the first flies already attracted by their miserable carrion.
When the sun awoke this miserable band they gathered themselves together with heavy step, still stiffened by the night.
Then the wolf howled again and they stiffened with surprise as a score of wild voices answered.
The bitter frost claimed Breed's swollen foot and stiffened it, numbing all sense of pain.
Her wounds stiffened and festered from imbedded shot, and she was dry and feverish.
They drew away from him and he writhed on the ground in nasty convulsions,--stiffened and stretched out with his eyes bulging from their sockets and glaring forth in death.
With stiffened lips Haney repeated now and again: "Keep me alive till she comes, doctor.
Before daylight one mule stiffened out in death and a half hour later the other one died.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stiffened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
