Incapable of or resistant to bending. Synonym:rigid."A table made of rigid plastic" , "A palace guardsman stiff as a poker" , "Stiff hair" , "A stiff neck"
The dead body of a human being. Synonyms:cadaver, clay, corpse, remains."The end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse" , "The murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river" , "Honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"
... quite dusk before he reached the hotel. The country was all new and strange to him, and he had missed his way more than once. But though he was tired, and stiff, and hungry, he felt that his mental energies were braced, his mind at ease, and the disturbing and torturing memories of the previous night no longer ... — The Mystery of a Turkish Bath • E.M. Gollan (AKA Rita) Read full book for free!
... and gave me time. She was in an ecstasy; reasoning, supplicating, conjuring, panting. I, her friends, the whole world must join her: and join her I did. It was the very relief of which hypocrisy stood in need. I entreated this straight-backed youth, stiff in determination, to condescend to lend a pitying ear to our petitions; to suffer us to permeate his bowels of compassion, and avert this fatal and impending cloud, fraught ... — Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft Read full book for free!
... the evidence is slender, but idolatry in the sense of "image-worship" is frequently mentioned in the lives of early saints.[982] Gildas also speaks of images "mouldering away within and without the deserted temples, with stiff and deformed features."[983] This pathetic picture of the forsaken shrines of forgotten gods may refer to Romano-Celtic images, but the "stiff and deformed features" suggest rather native art, the art of a people unskilful at reproducing the human form, however artistic ... — The Religion of the Ancient Celts • J. A. MacCulloch Read full book for free!
... used to at home. When they passed through the village, nodding and smiling to nearly every one they met, and making little friendly remarks to the people at their cottage doors, she could not help thinking of her stiff walk in the park with Miss Mervyn, which always lasted a certain time if it was fine, and from which she often came back feeling very cross. If the walk at Fieldside were "odd," it was certainly amusing, and she began to wish there ... — Black, White and Gray - A Story of Three Homes • Amy Walton Read full book for free!
... gold crescents from Guiana. Out swung the stars, blazing, mighty, with black spaces in between. Again rang the trumpet, a high voice proclaiming eternal endeavor. The wind began to blow, and on the plain the cacti, gloomy and fantastic sentinels, moved their stiff bodies, waved their twisted arms in gestures of strangeness and horror. The Spaniard turned on his heel, went down to his men-at-arms where they kept watch and ward, and at midnight, riding like Death on a great, pale steed, led a hundred horsemen out ... — Sir Mortimer • Mary Johnston Read full book for free!
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