Ethan put his arms stiffly at his sides and stood, to my dismay, like a little soldier. |
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Marching stiffly across the room he performed a perfect about-turn before slapping his tiny sandalled foot on the clay floor and saluting. |
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And few could have failed to be moved by the five pitiful bodies of quins, lined up stiffly in a row. |
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It created substantial costs in unemployment and lost output in order to stiffly deal with inflation. |
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Saucer-eyed tarsiers, pale moon rats and scruffy stink badgers perch stiffly in glass cases. |
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Stifling a cry of pain, she stiffly moved herself into a better position holding her arms straight as possible. |
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Across from me, Ashley chuckled and shook her head, causing her white streaked hair to stiffly follow her movements. |
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Elders climb stiffly out of the bus, while the young ones unload swags off the top. |
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He closed the door and claimed his seat in the squashy swivel chair behind his desk while I remained standing, hands folded stiffly. |
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His wife, a petite blonde, stands beside him clutching a glass of wine and smiling stiffly. |
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Next to Ojka's stiffly coifed hair, Uma's unkempt curls looked lovely around her face. |
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Tobias's nostrils were flared, and he had his arms held stiffly against his sides, with his hands clenched into fists. |
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The floorpan is not as torsionally rigid as is the case in the best of the European rivals, nor is the suspension as stiffly mounted. |
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When I got home, an elegant woman, with frosted hair and dressed in Armani, sat stiffly on our couch. |
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She walked stiffly towards the group that was waiting for them and gave Dr. Wordsworth a curt nod. |
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Automatically Greg takes her hand, like the good gallant man he is, and draws her nearer as Jem walks stiffly away. |
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Her tone was flat and deadly, her fingers curled stiffly into something like claws. |
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Desmond made a production of apologizing, but Michael remained stiffly silent. |
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He caught the bag a bit stiffly and this lump came up like a little gobstopper under his skin. |
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He held his head stiffly with his nose angled upward and his lips pursed with a superior, disdainful expression. |
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Raquel still stood stiffly, but the passion in his voice was gradually chipping away at her suspicions. |
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The path now climbed stiffly, switching back and forth on the steeper sections, otherwise crossing the face of the right hand valley wall. |
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We got stiffly to our feet and clapped the encores, applauded and cheered the memory of what we once believed and wanted to be. |
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She quickly brings her arms stiffly to her sides and flashes a lopsided smile, her heavy jaw clenched. |
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When not resting or feeding, they can move quickly, hopping on their hind legs with their tail held out stiffly behind. |
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Carter said, coming stiffly to attention and saluting Saunders who returned the salute and then shook Carters hand. |
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When Chris came down he found his parents sitting stiffly opposite each other, the tension palpable. |
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He was scratched from the lineup yesterday and was walking stiffly as the result of having his neck and back taped up. |
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In terms of car set-up, we try to spring the cars quite stiffly in order to get a responsive change of direction through the chicanes. |
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A man stands stiffly in a vintage uniform, mirrored glasses masking his face. |
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Her shoes slapped against the cracked sidewalk over and over as she walked stiffly. |
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The dog sat stiffly next to Mr. Dawson's chair and now carefully watched the group. |
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I walked stiffly into the lounge and had the sudden urge to have a boiling hot bath. |
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He was standing stiffly at his gate, staring into the cemetery, his eyes deep pools of inexpressible sorrow. |
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The witness against the government of Iraq walked stiffly into the room, metal callipers buckled to heavy medical shoes. |
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She sat stiffly in the office chair, like an executive calling a boardroom to order. |
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We had been forced to smile stiffly at the camera despite the nauseating stench of drying fish. |
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She hurt him by stiffly acknowledging his services to the Crown and forgetting to recall his 60 years of service to the state. |
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He danced stiffly, raising his legs and plunking them down again like a tin soldier, as if he were being controlled by a master puppeteer. |
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Figures marched stiffly in single file down the narrow corridors between the makeshift rooms. |
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Carefully fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and transfer mixture to buttered baking pan. |
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During this time, she was allowed to wear her own clothing, and not the stiffly starch hardness of the plain prison uniform. |
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They preferred the discomfort of boned bodices and stiffly interfaced skirts. |
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The city council stiffly reprimanded students caught fist-fighting at the college. |
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He requested the promulgation of a law that would stiffly punish all those attempting to play with national unity. |
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George's eyes grew very upset and he drew himself up stiffly. |
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Labour's most memorable poster during its campaign was one of Tory leader William Hague, with his normally bald head sporting Margaret Thatcher's stiffly lacquered hairdo. |
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As the third set began, he was limping stiffly around the court. |
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When dawn broke, he rose stiffly, and stretched his aching limbs. |
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She stiffly accepted his hand, and he lead her to the floor. |
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Picture the first 19 th-century photographers, perched behind unwieldy wooden cameras atop tripods, their subjects sitting stiffly without motion. |
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He stiffly thanked her for coming and commented on how well she looked. |
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If you're a young man about town, you strut stiffly, head up, as if the place smells of disinfectant, put on a lofty expression and speak through your nose. |
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Joan opted for the two-seater couch and sat stiffly at the edge of it. |
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He moved stiffly to the phone and scheduled a new photo appointment. |
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A fifth lion, rearing up on its hind legs, prepares to attack an unsuspecting but seemingly ill-natured winged griffin seated stiffly on its haunches. |
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But Sarkozy looked haggard when he stiffly walked out of the hospital Monday afternoon in his ubiquitous dark suit. |
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Finally, very stiffly whisked egg whites are folded into the mixture. |
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With that I grabbed my crutch stiffly and hobbled out the door. |
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It was also cocked very stiffly, which killed any fun I might have had while plinking. |
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Such lignous and woody plants as are hard of substance, procere of stature, that are thick and solid, and stiffly adhere to the ground on which they stand. |
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The figure stands somewhat stiffly, weighed down by heavy garments which have an archaistic style, with a mantle drawn across the body and pinned on the right shoulder. |
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