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- adjective dialect
stiff
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Examples
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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
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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!
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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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