And the musty, ancient volume was full of queer diagrams and elegantly stilted descriptions of other strange experiments.
Later in the day Lee picked up the old book again and plunged into its strange, stilted dissertation on electricity.
The poetry which Burns wrote, not in dialect, but in the classical English, is in the stilted manner of his century, and his prose correspondence betrays his lack of culture by its constant lapse into rhetorical affectation and fine writing.
Their style was elegant and academic, retaining a little of the stilted poetic diction of their classical forerunners.
The diction wasstilted and artificial, and pompous declamation took the place of action and genuine passion.
Somewhat stilted lovemaking this; but what was a poor fellow to do who had been taken from the Rue Boissière and plunged into empire making, all in the course of a summer's evening?
Harrietta Fuller could take lines that werestilted and shoddy and speak them in a way to make them sound natural and distinctive and real.
You saw Japanese women in tight kimonos and funny little stilted flapping footgear running to catch a street car; and you laughed at the incongruity of it.
These word fencings had begun, of course, as a child would naturally have begun them, with the stilted sentences and high-flown remarks which she had lifted from Grimm's Fairy Tales.
He passed and repassed from stilted pathos to strained and verbal wit (often mere punning); and when a reformer like T.
The stilted logical demonstration is always foreign to the matter, and is generally soon forgotten, without weakening our conviction.
The novel would still be readable if it were stripped of the stilted conversations and sentimental gush in which Richardson delighted; but that would leave precious little of the story.
As a writer he began without study or literary training, and was stilted or slovenly in most of his work.
Rather, how his face lights up at the immediate and perfect response to his commands, and every movement of the long line of soldiers is an effectual refutation of the stilted idea that well informed men cannot make good soldiers.
His master was a vivacious Frenchman, who, one day, came upon him as, under the instruction of Chetwood, he was studying a part in some stiltedand ranting tragedy.
It is written in a stilted and inflated style, and bears all the marks of a juvenile production.
Government was unstable and corrupt, and the Confucianism which had been its philosophical underpinning was stilted and unsatisfying.
She had, as Mrs. Squeamish in Wycherley's play, once acted with Quin on the occasion of his benefit and she well remembered his stiff, stilted style and how he domineered over everybody.
Against the simplicity and pathos of the old ballad Buononcini's stilted artificialities sounded tame and monotonous.
He was always stilted in speech; Humphrey had said that he talked like the Congressional Record.
At the farther end of the table the little Senator, all dignity and calm stilted sentences, made himself remotely agreeable to several girls at once.
When they arrived at the spot he was stilted in manner, though atremble within.
German poetry, which prescribed obedience to the rules of the stilted French court-poetry, under pain of the critic's lash.
Gottsched,[4] who greatly contributed toward the reformation of German literature, still retained the stilted Alexandrine and the pseudo-Gallic imitation of the ancient dramatists to which Lessing put an end.
He is not nearly so composed as Shadwell, and his voice has a strange and stilted sound.
All trace of anger had vanished now both from Mr. Anstruther's face and from his manner, and he spoke in the cold, precise tones, and framed his sentences in the rather stilted manner habitual to him.
The moment he perceived the fair-apparelled youth from a distance, he stilted towards him, and gave him kindly welcome.
But as has already been said, any degree of overnicety, of pedantic elegance, of stilted correctness, is especially irritating to a sensitive ear.
Long, high-worded, stilted letters the poor boy wrote and rewrote and copied.
The mottoes of the two nations are as well rendered in the vernacular as by any formal or stilted phrases.
The oak pulpit is elevated to suit the galleries, stilted on stone clustered columns, with foliated caps, and butts upon the chancel west pier.
The church will hold 1,700 persons, and the galleries add to the auditorium, but are no assistance to effect, and compel the use of a stilted and old-fashioned pulpit.
The school class rooms and offices below account for thestilted appearance before referred to.
It is simply incredible to me that human beings possessed of the same senses as ours could find satisfaction for their imagination in the sterile moralising, stilted sentiment, superficial wit, and tiresome persiflage of that queer generation.
The windows are framed by engaged columns which carry stilted round-arched calottes.
The authors of Ocheïdir describe these arches as horse-shoed; they seemed to me to be merely slightly stilted and adorned with a double fillet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stilted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
