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Example sentences for "stiffish"

Lexicographically close words:
stiffened; stiffening; stiffens; stiffer; stiffest; stiffly; stiffnecked; stiffness; stiffs; stifle
  1. After two hours of this misery we turned abruptly from the ravine, and ascended by a gulley to the hill-side, and, surmounting a stiffish ascent, found a fine open valley before us.

  2. I don't think this here canvas would stand another stiffish gale without flying into ribbons.

  3. Still we might do it, if we could but get a stiffish breeze," observed Murray.

  4. The glass has fallen considerably within the last few hours; there is a stiffish breeze from the north, which is blowing against the tide, so that our course is not likely to be one of the smoothest.

  5. The settlers were directed to assemble at a point named, at a certain hour, on a given day, with all the able-bodied men they could muster capable of bearing arms, and to be prepared for what might probably prove a stiffish job.

  6. The company shouted and applauded at this and gave vent to some stiffish epigrammatic witticisms.

  7. In stiffish loam a strong clump was planted three years ago, but it has never looked healthy.

  8. It is, however, very accommodating, and will be found to do well in ordinary garden soil, especially if it be a stiffish loam; clayey land is well adapted for it.

  9. It should be made in three pieces, with a stiffish backbone, constituting the lower third of its length, and with most of the bend in the upper two-thirds.

  10. A belt of Scotch fir plantation, with a stiffish fence on each side, tries their mettle and the stoutness of their hats: crash they get through it, the noise they make among the thorns and rotten branches resembling the outburst of a fire.

  11. Having left this spot next morning with a stiffish breeze blowing from the land, we arrived at the entrance of Terminos bay, without, however, seeing anything of Escobar.

  12. In many Capricorn-beetles and various insects the antennae are clothed, instead of down, with stiffish hairs or short bristles.

  13. After talking thus one night my prick was in stiffish form, and I put her hand round it.

  14. With prick still stiffish down I fell on her, and was up her again in the twinkling of an eye, lodging my prick in preparation for another fuck.

  15. The genial annoyance of the diner and the apologetic concern of the black are excellently depicted by the artist, for the original drawing of which I paid a stiffish price to the leading artist fellow of Spokane.

  16. Stiffish lot, those Americans," he said at last.

  17. The woman, doubtless with his compromising letters, would be holding out for a stiffish price; she would think them worth no end.

  18. Tail cylindrical, not tapering, and furnished with a stiffish brush at the extremity.

  19. Driving all day and watching half the night is pretty stiffish work, good weather and bad, when you've got to keep it up for months at a time, and we'd been three months and a week on the road.

  20. She made me take a whisky--a stiffish one that she mixed herself--for a parting glass, and I felt it took a bit of effect upon me.

  21. We humped our saddles and swags ourselves; a stiffish load too, but the night was cool, and we did our best.

  22. There now suddenly arose a stiffish breeze, our rowers pulled with all their might, and Cortes ordered the brigantines to run right in among the canoes.

  23. Beat yolk of egg and add a little cold water, then add them to the flour, making them into a stiffish dough.

  24. I'm coorious to know, having had a stiffish argiment on that pint with Rais Ali.

  25. Depend on it that young feller ain't likely to part with his skin without a pretty stiffish spurt for it.

  26. Young clothed with stiffish down, and able to walk and swim from birth.

  27. Plumage soft and blended, with the filaments stiffish and disunited.

  28. Our places were appointed to us by the director of the hunt, and some of us had a stiffish climb before reaching the spot indicated.

  29. Immediately on quitting this place we turned into a less frequented path, and began a stiffish ascent.

  30. The stiffish breeze cost us one sail; the storm, two.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stiffish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.