I have no desire to interfere with the future happiness of Mrs. Montoyo," I stiffly answered.
No; her eyes were open, and when I stiffly shifted posture she looked across at me.
Harmy dons her cape-bonnet, and marches stiffly into the kitchen garden, leaving the disreputable visitor to his child hostess.
The protuberant eyes protruded farther and farther, the tuft of grey hair seemed to rear itself more stiffly erect, his cheeks changed from red to purple.
She had reached that point when Henri came below and saluted her stiffly from the doorway.
They sat in Belle's bedroom, and her sentences were punctuated by little backs briskly presented to have small garments fastened, or bows put on stiffly bobbed yellow hair.
But when he drew himself stiffly to attention he overdid the thing rather and went over backward with a crash.
He had stoodstiffly and frowningly before the boy, and he had asked in a highly official tone: "What must a man be to be buried with military honors?
He stops; rises stiffly by straightening his legs; stretches out his nose forward and his tail in a horizontal line behind, like a pointer, and utters an appalling roar.
They each took the end of a different bench, and rather stiffly sat gazing into the shadowy severity of the big room.
He passed his hand across his moist and pallid face, paced his room again several times, then touched a button and stood stiffly erect beside his desk.
He bowed and entered the parlour and stood rather stiffly in the centre of the room.
The editor was standing stifflyin the middle of the parlour.
But----" Delgrado wheeled round to face a tall burly man standing stiffly at his side as though awaiting orders.
He held himself stiffly erect where he stood for a moment, took a few lurching steps forward, paused, and then plunged suddenly across the garden toward Colonel Everard.
He came obediently, and patted her shoulder stiffly but did not kiss her.
His wife got rather stiffly to her feet and waited, looking away from the lighted enclosure, over the low hedge, at the lawn.
Their embroidered, stiffly starched petticoats, flowered aprons and gay kerchiefs have disappeared, and instead they have put on more sombre garb, some cast off clothing of our civilization.
Plush furniture is added and stands stiffly against the wall; not very useful, but somewhat like the article which stands in more pretentious parlours.
Mrs. Maxwell poured the tea and portioned out the sugar with her black-gloved hands, and Mrs. Field stiffly buttered her biscuits.
She marched ahead stiffly now, and left her brother to his flourishing seconding of her announcement.
Nobody would have dreamed how day after day she had journeyed stiffly down to the old garden spot behind the house to watch the progress of the rhubarb, and how triumphantly she had brought up those green and rosy stalks.
CREAM When eggs are relatively cheaper than cream, the stiffly beaten white of an egg may be used to advantage to mix with beaten cream.
Serve in cups with or without whipped cream; or pour over the stiffly beaten white of one egg.
Naturally," he answered stiffly as they walked along, "but it is quite unnecessary for Lady Tancred to struggle through this rabble and take telegrams herself.
It was that of stiffly rustling garments, as of a person clad therein rising with difficulty from a kneeling posture.
She found what she wanted in a plain cloth skirt and a white tailored waist with stiffly starched cuffs, and a man's sleeve links.
A great weight lay across his legs, so stiffly that Denis thought the dead man a log until his hand came in contact with damp clothing.
But he walked so stiffly along the corridor, that she did not dare approach him.
Then she stalked out as stiffly as she had come in.
At length she arrived, she passed stiffly before the concierge's room where she perfectly recognized the Lorilleuxs and the Poissons seated at the table having dinner, and who made grimaces of disgust on beholding her in that sorry state.
She put her cap and shawl on again and went upstairs very stifflyin her skirts, looking very stately.
Gervaise uttered her thanks and stalked stiffly along the pavement with the determination of flying at Coupeau's eyes.
She rose stiffly to receive Mrs. Caldwell, and kissed her on both cheeks with restrained emotion.
She came down to breakfast every morning, and sat up stiffly at the end of the table away from the fire, her usual seat, eating little, and saying little, but listening with interest when the others spoke.
Fuchsias drooped their purple and scarlet heads, dahlias, with a grape-like bloom on their velvety petals, stood stiffly staring, and against the granite wall giant sunflowers hung their heavy heads on a curve of sticky green stem.
One thing you want to remember," he said to Bob, "and that is to walk pretty stiffly like you had a bone in your leg an' swallowed a ramrod.
Muller turned stiffly and entered the power plant adjacent, while Bob in a fever adjusted the headpiece.
Upon her knees the Child Christ sat, stiffly upright, one hand raised in blessing; the child was tiny, with a strange pale countenance and eyes much too large for its face.
Pale, and stiffly erect, yet determined all the same to treat it as a laughing matter, she had vouchsafed the Duchess some kind of assurance that she would for the future observe a more cautious behavior towards Warkworth.
It grows close to the ground; its perfect circle of thick, short fingers, rather like gigantic asparagus, radiating stiffly from the centre.
He kept his eyes fixed on the opal waters, and stood up as stiffly as if he had to receive the shock of a charge.
She marched into the drawing-room, and sat stiffly on a seat by the window; tried to say something jesting, and failed.
Thus recalled to his domestic ties he rose stiffly and hastily.
Stephen looked curiously at the old doctor who descended stiffly from his car.
Aunt Hannah stood stiffly upright for a moment, as if nerving herself, then, turned toward the family.
When Mary had done, and stood breathlessly waiting for a reply, the old lady moved stiffly as if the silence had aroused her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stiffly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
