stiff-rumped

And believe me, that stiff-rumped old busybody will have no compunction at all in blackening your name to anyone within hearing distance.

Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

And believe me, that stiff-rumped old busybody will have no compunction at all in blackening your name to anyone within hearing distance.

Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

December 5th, 2002 stiff-rumped ... always nabbing the rust, or riding grub.

December 5th, 2002 2002

“No matter what else Ferdinand is, he is a member of an old aristocratic family, and Portuguese family honor is in some ways more stiff-rumped than English.

The Ideal Bride Laurens, Stephanie 2004

I know some stiff-rumped bureaucrats will not agree, but if he were here to defend himself, Pythag would undoubtedly say, “If you don’t want a gentleman born with an enviable amount of curiosity to climb into an elephants’ compound, for goodness sakes, rely on more than a waist-high fence and a silly excuse for a moat to keep him out.”

Eighteen JAN BURKE 2002

I know some stiff-rumped bureaucrats will not agree, but if he were here to defend himself, Pythag would undoubtedly say, “If you don’t want a gentleman born with an enviable amount of curiosity to climb into an elephants’ compound, for goodness sakes, rely on more than a waist-high fence and a silly excuse for a moat to keep him out.”

Eighteen JAN BURKE 2002

One wonders how such stiff-rumped assholes can contort themselves without breaking something.

God is for Suckers! 2009

"Because he’s just another stiff-rumped consul," said Sulla.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990