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I'm now a bit stiff and have a big lump on my right foot where I caught a guy on the elbow.
Pressure is constantly applied on school administrations to attract greater numbers or face stiff funding cuts.
The company is facing stiff competition from rivals that have launched new products such as DVD players and televisions.
In winter I washed my clothes and put them on the line to dry and they got so stiff, I was shocked.
A woman in her mid-fifties stood on a ladder organizing books on a top shelf, her stiff, dark hair long since made limp by the humidity.
In a fashion shoot called Doll Drums, the model lies limp and stiff, draped over chairs as if she'd been thrown there by a petulant child.
You can then work over the wood surface with a stiff broom to further dislodge dirt, then rinse it off with a hose.
The style, when it is not terse and apophthegmatic, as of one trying to imitate Bacon, is stiff with conceits and long-winded sentences.
The air was cold and a stiff wind had blown up, howling down corridors like a banshee.
She was dressed in a style I had only seen in old portraits, a stiff black dress with flaring skirts and a lace-ornamented stomacher.
It also has a tiny beak with a large gape, surrounded by stiff feathers called rictal bristles, which help the bird catch its aerial prey.
But he wanted to be able to feel them once more, their less-than-perfect curvatures beneath her cold lids and stiff, rough lashes.
The government could certainly go to employers and enact stiff penalties and cut that spigot off.
She asked Congress on Saturday to legislate stiff punishments for illegal loggers, stopping short of calling for the death penalty.
Cadet Drew Callaghan nodded in return, and resumed his stiff stance, holding the door open for the two girls.
I was met with a stiff child, no answering or responsive hug, no acknowledgement and a blank stare into space.
The stiff and stylised human forms dominate, colluding powerfully with the resonant colours.
It broke down not because it met with stiff physical resistance from security forces but more because it was an ideological flop.
In a traditional yurt, the framework is covered with felt mats and tied down with hair ropes to prevent the mats from blowing off in stiff winds.
The dancers are competent but seemed rather stiff it's panto girls and boys, let yourselves go!
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Examples from Classical Literature
From experience, I notice that nothing is more congenial to the germination of the tea-nut than a good stiff blue, clayed soil.
Light porous soils may be rolled at any time, but clay soils can be rolled to advantage only when they are stiff and cloddy.
I think John's imagination was worked upon by the sweet and mournful hymns that were discordantly sung in the stiff old parlors.
His eyes were closed, and a stiff wisp of his fair hair was clotted with blood.
The cockspur thorn is a small, handsome tree, fifteen to twenty feet high, with stiff branches in a broad round head.
More and more we are getting away from the cold, stiff planting of Canna, coleus, and Salvia.
After a stiff climb the summit of the Amersfoort Hills was reached just before dark.
Beat the egg white, add the cream of tartar, and continue beating until the egg white is stiff.
The blood had congealed in my hands until they were so stiff as to be almost useless.
Pour upon three egg-whites beaten very stiff, flavor with vanilla or bitter almond, and spread between layers.
It has eased my joints, which were somewhat stiff from these years of peace.
I threw on a fresh log, kicked it into a blaze, and poured out for him a stiff glass of applejack.
The dog did not look at her, but crocked under him the leg that had been stiff like a ramrod and spread out another.
Soon enough she found him, not far off, stiff and cold beside his half-cut bundle of firewood.
Strigillose, Strigose, beset with stout and appressed, stiff or rigid bristles.
Her archness was a shade stiff, but her neck was one of her chief attractions.
When that Melvin boy, that bugler, saw us coming to that porch he was scared stiff.
She turned to Aldo, standing stiff and secretarial in the middle of the room.
Ma's scared stiff about me, thinks the devil's got an option on my future sure.
A stiff jolt of elderberry wine drove off the jitters and reasoning returned.
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