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  • adjective dialect stiff

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Examples

  • The grave itself was small attic quiet as a king at the end of his reignAround the grave the grass was burnedgray and stifflike the lips of lovers who no longer kiss

    The Grave of Rimbaud Bill Yarrow 2011

  • She was sick too, she couldn't say a word for a minute, but after a while she kissed me, I could feel the quivers in her lips, and she said stifflike: "Never mind, she'll be better soon, then she will!

    Laddie: A True Blue Story 1913

  • She was sick too, she couldn't say a word for a minute, but after a while she kissed me, I could feel the quivers in her lips, and she said stifflike: "Never mind, she'll be better soon, then she will!

    Laddie; a true blue story Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

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