stiff

• Old Mrs. Wiggins said she'd noticed how we acted kind of stiff, and as if we wasn't glad to see them, the minute she come, and Mrs. Wiggins said she had, too, and she'd seen you put the saleratus into the stew, and she thought from the way you switched around you were up to something. —  Young Lucretia and Other Stories
• It may be briefly described as a stiff clay soil, containing a sufficiency of lime, potash, and phosphoric acid, to meet all the requirements of the clover-crop. —  Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject
• But what drapery for the mother of the sacred child!--stiff, starch, rectangularly-folded, white muslin, stuck about with diverse artificial flowers--like unto a shew figure in Brook Green Fair! —  A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One
• Yet the entire Hochschule contingent unanimously condemned his bowing as being 'stiff'--merely because it did not conform to the Joachim tradition. —  Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
• A bindle-stiff is a working tramp. —  The Road

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