How To Use Stiffen In A Sentence
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She could feel underclothes, linen drawers, silken chemise, a farthingale with its stiffened hoops.
Ill Met By Moonlight
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`Then apparently James needs no more stiffening in his collar," Aubrey murmured.
THE LAST RAVEN
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The fledgling stiffened, feathers bristling as though roused by a gale.
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The skin is fibreglass over a thin layer of plywood, which is itself supported by a skeleton of thicker ply, stiffened by a steel structure.
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The Queen heard it as well, for Margaret saw her shoulders stiffen almost imperceptibly.
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Millner, keenly aware that an aromatic savarin au rhum was describing an arc behind his head previous to being rushed back to the pantry under young Draper's indifferent eye, stiffened himself against this last assault of the enemy, and read out firmly: "What relation do you consider that a man's business conduct should bear to his religious and domestic life?
The Blond Beast
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Weiss stiffened in his boots, the scar dragging down his eye seemed to pulsate.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Draconis froze, his body stiffening, his grip slackening.
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He stiffened when he saw his boss enter the room
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The ordinary manipulation of the shoulder can be accomplished with the patient lying down; but if special conditions, such as articular stiffening, call for unusual care or unusual force, it will be found best to treat the shoulder with the patient seated.
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
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La Sylphide also popularized the white tutus, freeing the ballerinas from the bondage of stiffening panniers.
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The grin vanished like magic, her whole body stiffening in antipathy as her eyes locked with fathomless brown ones.
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The next essential garment was the corset stiffened with thin strips of whalebone.
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He exaggerated the hips with panniered silk skirts, and skirts were stiffened into subtle bell shapes.
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Ends of the shell are stiffened with laminated timber arches braced by a diagrid of tension cables from which hang enclosing cardboard honeycomb panels.
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By then, our personalities - soft, giving and flaccid - have already solidified, which renders any effort to stiffen our sinews impotent.
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She made her voice sound falsely bright and watched him stiffen.
Western Man
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Much progress has been made across the country, but such progress will be fragile indeed if we do not stiffen our spines against the temptation to lower the bar.
Linda Rosen: Time to Raise the Bar
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After the German Army was chased across France, resistance began to stiffen.
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The coarse, heavy, plain-woven linen or cotton material known as buckram today is used for stiffening, etc.
Textiles and Clothing
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They won all the battles and and stiffened the defence which had been porous like in the first period.
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France also sought to stiffen the resolve of wobbly partners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Secondary programs are too easy. High school graduation standards must be stiffened.
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stiffen the regulations
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The more she rocked me, the more the problem grew, the more my resolve stiffened.
Times, Sunday Times
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I heard the deep rumble of Michael's voice and I immediately stiffened up.
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Delete or abrase the scribed mortise lines for the stiffening transoms on the side opposite the corner tenon.
Chapter 7
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The fronds were stiffened by ice and arched over the trickle like a tunnel of swords at a wedding.
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His will has stiffened after suffering such hardness.
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Our minds get tricks and attitudes as our bodies do, thought Harold, and age stiffens them into unalterableness.
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These clothes restrict your freedom of movement and stiffen up the whole body.
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The next essential garment was the corset stiffened with thin strips of whalebone.
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I dare say before this Time you have interpreted the Northern Storm; if the presages chill'd your Blood, what how must you be froze and stiffend at the Disgrace brought upon our Arms unless some warmer passion seaze you, and Anger and resentment Fire your Breast.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 30 - 31 July 1777
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She tried to stand up, but her already tense muscles had stiffened considerably during the flight.
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Cardiac syncope often causes immediate loss of consciousness, tonic stiffening of body and limbs, and often myoclonic jerking.
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There is no need to allow for side hems as the stiffened fabric will not fray.
Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
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In the meantime Pleasonton's three divisions, "stiffened" -- to use one of Hooker's expressions -- by two brigades of infantry, stole down to the fords and lay there during the night, quietly, and without fires, ready at the first dawn of day to spring upon their too-confident adversaries and give them a rude awakening.
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI
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An internal fiberglass liner is glassed in place and provides much of the structural support and stiffening for the hull.
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It stoutened the heart, stiffened the back, and made men more than men.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW
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He knows when to explode into the shot - when the defender is off balance or has stiffened his knees or has moved in too close.
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The web plate is longitudinally stiffened near the midpoint of its depth.
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My hands went to the Doctor's chest and I made to push, but he batted my arms apart and drove two stiffened fingers into my belly.
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And no wonder; for a very slight proportion of tannic acid in the water corrugates and stiffens the thin, smooth skin of the anemone, like the tanning of leather.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
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Finally came the gown, which might consist of a boned bodice and stiffened skirt to match.
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Her body stiffens as she stares at the TV, focusing her eyes, ears, heart and soul on the screen.
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A solid wood stem and mahogany floors and stiffeners complete the basic construction which has been particularly cleanly executed by West Custom.
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stiffening his shoulders, he prepared to advance
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She is dressed in a tight-fitting black velvet bodice. square-cut at the neck and partly filled in with a gay handkerchief, coloured rose-pink, blue, and golden, like the alpen-rose, the gentian, and the mountain dandelion; alabaster beads, pale as edelweiss, are round her throat; her stiffened. white linen sleeves finish at the elbow; and her full well-worn skirt is of gentian blue.
Plays : Second Series
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But the title might stiffen a cock or two in Dubuque.
Shortcut Man
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After the preliminaries of love-play, the stimulated penis, erect, enlarged and stiffened, is pressed into the woman's vagina.
Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
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Lee promptly stiffen at the turn of the conversation and the change in my tone of voice.
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For this open rift in the leadership is likely only to stiffen the resolve of the hardliners to crack down harder.
Times, Sunday Times
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Remember what he is really like and stiffen your resolve.
The Sun
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Mama stiffened on the way over so I had to unbend her gentle getting her out of the cab.
RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
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I felt her body stiffen, her leg muscles tightening and resisting.
Times, Sunday Times
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My back has stiffened overnight.
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Fancy a pagne or skirt all formed of little strips of material bedizened with red and black hieroglyphics, stiffened with bitumen, and apparently belonging to a freshly unbandaged mummy.
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This lignification serves to stiffen and strengthen the cells.
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And strikes can backfire: lack of public support can stiffen government resolve.
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And the logical remedy for competitive sloth is stiffened antitrust enforcement.
Ian Fletcher: Is a Flat Tariff the Answer to America's Trade Mess?
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It seemed like his back stiffened towards the end.
The Sun
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For one precious moment the air filled with dragonfly hatchlings, their limp wings stiffening in the sun, performing aerobatic exercises before migrating down to the river.
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Even the hangar door needed modifications - a sturdy wooden wind post stiffens it to prevent excessive vibration caused by the massive rotor downwash.
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Which verses, in a word, may have a spice and volupty, may have passion's cling and such like decency, so that they can incite with ticklings, I do not say boys, but bearded ones whose stiffened limbs amort lack pliancy in movement.
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
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Assistants held the patient securely and some sedation such as mandrake root or solution of opium was given, a concoction which probably stiffened the surgeon's resolve rather than mollified the patient.
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The atrium itself is a grand, multi-level space covered by a space-frame roof that is stiffened by a dramatic king post truss made of turned fir logs held together with steel tension rods and connectors.
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Raven was clearly justified in eliding details of the two plots, in the interest of stiffening his adaptation, and making it plausible to 1970s viewers.
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a counter may be used to stiffen the material around the heel and to give support to the foot
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The more she rocked me, the more the problem grew, the more my resolve stiffened.
Times, Sunday Times
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This "frier," whose shanty leaned against a tumble-down house, and was propped up by heavy joists, green with moss, made a display of boiled mussels lying in large earthenware bowls filled to the brim with clear water; of dishes of little yellow dabs stiffened by too thick a coating of paste; of squares of tripe simmering in a pan; and of grilled herrings, black and charred, and so hard that if you tapped them they sounded like wood.
The Fat and the Thin
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The hottest tonsorial trend for the winter is for erectile barnets - product-stiffened locks that make you go "lawks", quiffs that stand up
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But the spirit that endures the mere cruelties and caprices of an established despot is the spirit of an ancient and settled and probably stiffened society, not the spirit of a new one.
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However, more skilful growers and more determined winery owners have pushed several recent examples to heights heretofore not achieved, often with a stiffening soupçon of Cabernet Sauvignon.
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With a double carbon graphite stringer, rail stiffeners, and slick skin bottom, it was also quite fast.
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This indicated that the fracture had initiated at the unfused butt weld in the longitudinal stiffener.
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Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine
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Denial can obscure obstacles and stiffen resolve.
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These events have stiffened our resolve to succeed.
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Again, a fabric is first dyed and stiffened, then cut into petals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stiffening competition in the market has led to a reduction in the company's profits this year.
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She stiffened when her former husband walked into the room.
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The weight is a few grains more which may stiffen the shaft a little.
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The men stiffened up to the color line, charged forward with a cheer, and drove back the enemy.
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Feeling more confident in the arms of this stranger who was not a stranger, Ellen's back stiffened.
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To stiffen the shallow vault, curved steel girders brace the two sides.
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These clothes restrict your freedom of movement and stiffen up the whole body.
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It seemed like his back stiffened up towards the end, but then it is hard to play against Novak.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only time the FA's resolve stiffens these days is when a member of its hierarchy decides to try to work his way through the typing pool.
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The welcoming blue eyes crossed with guarded tension, and her relaxed pose stiffened with anxiety.
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Slattery stiffened, was immediately scoping the area.
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Mazda also added a strut tower bar to help stiffen up the chassis.
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ASCENSION, MARE BOAT -- Wreck of unknown racing-plane, Parden rudder, wire-stiffened xylonite vans, and Harliss engine-seating, sighted and salved 7 20 'S. 18 41' W.Dec. 15th.
Actions and Reactions
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Ada stiffened at the sound of his voice.
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Weiss stiffened in his boots, the scar dragging down his eye seemed to pulsate.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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The wind had come around northwest, stiffening overnight, and everyone knew the cod bit best in a nor'wester.
AMAGANSETT
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And that determination will stiffen the sinew and summon up the blood.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm also crocheting a ton of snowflakes and today's chore is to spray them liberally with starch to stiffen them up, then I'll attatch a little string and voila!
Weekly Catchup
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So badly did his misused body stiffen, that when he was called it required another ten minutes and a second glass of whisky to unbend his joints and limber up the muscles.
Trust
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She threw her body violently upright and stiffened, breathing heavily against her rebelling mind, pressing her thoughts into the silent empty space around her.
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Frank at once presented his half-stiffened cock to his mother's lips, whilst Ethel, kneeling down between the maternal thighs, rolled her lascivious tongue in delight round that splendid clitoris and within the serrated nymphae which guarded the entrance to the temple of love, whilst her nose revelled amongst the beautiful chevelure of a most glorious mons Veneris, and inhaled all the sweet odours of that
The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies
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The tallow and the beeswax was not able to be hardened and stiffened and this led to the invention of the moulding machine by Joseph Morgan in 1834.
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Pondering this commentary will stiffen the spine of the faithful for preaching, teaching, interpretation and life in the world.
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By the early 19th century women dancers began to wear the new thin, heelless, satin ballet slipper, tied with ribbons around the ankle and stiffened at the toe by rows of darning.
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Older discs, joints and tendons dehydrate and stiffen, becoming intolerant of pounding and jumping, but that's no reason not to be active, she says.
Boomers, you gotta make that body last
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How strange -- _how strange_!" she repeated, as she looked down on the little blanched and stiffening face.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II
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Suddenly the bird clearly spotted something and visibly stiffened.
Times, Sunday Times
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The blood supply to the skin is reduced when muscles stiffen.
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‘Looky, looky,’ He felt with his senses that they all looked up, towards him and felt Anna stiffen and stubbornly keep her eyes away from him.
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For this open rift in the leadership is likely only to stiffen the resolve of the hardliners to crack down harder.
Times, Sunday Times
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I felt my body stiffen painfully as I relived the memory of my best friend being thrown onto the concrete footpath.
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Might not American training, advice and leadership be the best way to stiffen their resolve?
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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Fingers like swollen sausages and a terrible paralysis beginning to suffuse him, stiffening his limbs, fevering his mind, Kenneally saw the great shade looming up over the side of the boat, flicking sea water from its slick blue skin.
The Miko
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As the crystals form connections, the concrete stiffens, hardens, and gains strength.
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As an acute response to such stretches the cytoskeleton can stiffen, increase traction forces and reinforce, as reported by some, or can soften and fluidize, as reported more recently by our laboratory, but in any given circumstance it remains unknown which response might prevail or why.
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Nicole followed my gaze, and I saw her visibly stiffen at the sight of her sister.
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He suddenly stiffened up, looking at her as if he had just stepped across some kind of social boundary.
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However, the thought of Margreet's tragic death would have her soft heart stiffened.
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The ends of the dome are closed with the same material, carried on diagonal grids of cardboard stiffened with timber and connected by tubular steel nodes.
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She was about to make some inconsequential remark to distract Portia from Sugden's sudden attention to security when Portia stiffened.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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To borrow the corset metaphor, it's clear that we need to loosen our stays rather than stiffen them further, if we are to achieve optimum comfort and good function.
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France also sought to stiffen the resolve of wobbly partners.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most familiar use of starch is as a thickener for cooking sauces, as in cornflour, or perhaps as a substance for stiffening shirt collars.
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Gusting breezes stiffened and rustled the heavy leaf canopies offering a meager shade from the summer sun.
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The price of eggs has stiffened to double its original one.
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It has a sort of Australian twang to it and is in common with several other similar phrases, all with the same meaning: starve the bardies [bardies are grubs], stiffen the crows, spare the crow.
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Interrupted by an audible gasp of shock from a spinster-appearing female sunning herself hard by and angularly in the sand in a swimming suit monstrously unbeautiful, Lee Barton was aware of an involuntary and almost perceptible stiffening on the part of his wife.
THE KANAKA SURF
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It's personal, and you can sense, amidst the all the uncertainty and trepidation, American resolve stiffening.
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British imperial policy stiffened after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
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And that determination will stiffen the sinew and summon up the blood.
Times, Sunday Times
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She tried to stand up, but her already tense muscles had stiffened considerably during the flight.
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And besides, if the joint is to be stiffened by callus, it were better that this should not take place when the arm is extended, for this position will be a great impediment and little advantage; if the arm be wholly bent, it will be more useful; but it will be much more convenient to have the joint in the intermediate position when it becomes ankylosed.
On Fractures
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Lattice girders stiffened the outside formwork in both vertical and horizontal directions so that it could sustain wind loads while being repositioned.
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Might not American training, advice and leadership be the best way to stiffen their resolve?
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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To further stiffen the chassis, three cross members beneath the floor tunnel reduce flex due to steering input and provide a strong linear steering feel.
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Penalties for selling illegal drugs have been stiffened.
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The sealant stiffens the fabric and prevents the threads from showing through the stitching.
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Again, there was no grandstanding, no implication that the nation needed to have its resolve stiffened or its sinews strengthened.
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A textile toecap and a plastic shield wrapped around the heel add stiffening.
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Finally, as the concrete further sets or stiffens, troweling operations begin, if required.
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He is a little timid, 'he proceeded, stiffening himself, and walking trimly to the stairhead.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Flags flap briskly in a stiffening wind, providing the only sounds beyond the clicking of cameras and the distant murmur of cars making their slow, careful way to the site.
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n. - joining together of bones or hard parts; resulting stiffness. ankylose, v.i. (of bones) to fuse or stiffen in this way. ankyroid, ancyroid adj. - having shape of hook.
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Legislation that will stiffen the penalties for the offences of kidnapping and false imprisonment ought to be passed.
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The bigger muscles in the arms and legs stiffen between four and six hours after death.
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These memories on both sides serve but to stiffen our resolve.
Times, Sunday Times
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He looked at me, and even though he smiled, I could see his posture visibly stiffen.
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Less tightly-woven haircloth provided stiffening for the lapels and coat-tails of European dandies.
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He made his Kings debut Saturday, but his back stiffened up afterward.
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My body had begun to stiffen up after many years of sedentary work as a therapist.
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Can't let you stay long or we'll git all stiffened up, but Chuck Goodwin, down to Caroca, he knows hawses an 'he's a pal of mine.
Rimrock Trail
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Aislinn stiffened and beneath lowered lids she glared at the woman's back.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Arthropods have a stiff cuticle made largely of chitin and proteins, forming an exoskeleton that may or may not be further stiffened with calcium carbonate.
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Mud volcanoes indicate that this subcretion occurs where dewatering stiffens the subducted sediments.
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A sure sign, Mrs. Hungerford thought, that she was feeling better; and she watched in secret amusement the sudden stiffening of the angular figure and the compression of the thin lips as the "instructress" looked fixedly out of the carriage window and vouchsafed no other reply.
Dorothy's Travels
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Her face stiffens with the effort of indifference, lacquers over, smooth as riverbed sand.
An Ugly Man
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Thinking about them may stiffen up this oversoft Muse of his.
Roads from Rome
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The wind had come around northwest, stiffening overnight, and everyone knew the cod bit best in a nor'wester.
AMAGANSETT
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The smaller muscles in the face and between the fingers start stiffening between two and four hours after death.
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The blood supply to the skin is reduced when muscles stiffen.
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After the hair and fat had been removed, the tanner had to prevent the pelt from stiffening or rotting in one of several ways, as up to this point, it is white and very slimy and should be referred to as raw-hide.
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There is no need to allow for side hems as the stiffened fabric will not fray.
Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
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But as the Japanese imperium widened, Chinese resistance stiffened.
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My back stiffened a bit.
Christianity Today
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He leaned towards her and she stiffened at this invasion of her personal space.
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The word anchylosis signifies the stiffening of a joint.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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Another thing to which he called our attention was the fact that frames A, B, E, F, H, K and L were stiffened with cross braces, while the rest were not.
The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island
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In addition, she was stiffened from the long trudge, and the sand, to her surprise, was anything but soft.
CHAPTER II
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And that determination will stiffen the sinew and summon up the blood.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the thought, and the use of the forthright word even behind the curtains of her own mind, stiffened her resolve.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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Hold a magnet nearby and the bits of iron will line up end-to-end; they form a rigid lattice that stiffens the mixture.
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Now if this tube swells so much that it entirely closes, as so often happens in cases of "cold in the head" as well as in constant irritation from adenoids, then may follow a vast train of difficulties -- earache, mastoiditis, etc. -- with the result that the tiny bones in the middle ear which vibrate so exquisitely may become ankylosed (stiffened) and deafness often follow.
The Mother and Her Child
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Total surprise was achieved, but resistance soon stiffened.
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This heading is normally applied to lined curtains and is stiffened with curtain buckram.
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Her body stiffened slightly at the mention of that name.
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At the same time, their position has stiffened.
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Her pallor became pale with the pain and the corners of her mouth stiffened.
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Hands trembling, I stiffen my resolve.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their faces become solemn, almost stiffened.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the case of Woolf, Elshtain stiffens her tone and accuses her of seeking to 'de-realise' rather than realise the citizen with her outsider, peaceful separationism.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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If the stuffed animal has cardboard or hardboard stiffeners or joints, these can be destroyed in a washing machine.
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Tailin stiffened at the scorn in the woman's voice.
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Also in the Stranger: Annie Wagner on The Namesake, "a perfectly subtle story that stiffens with each new visual gimmick," and Michael Atkinson on a sampling of video "elegies" by Alexander Sokurov, "one of the modern age's most restless and uncompromised cinematic powerhouses.
GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 3/19.
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We presented evidence implicating actin polymerization and not actomyosin activity as the dominant mechanism actuating the stiffening response.
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I felt her body stiffen, her leg muscles tightening and resisting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Asmodeus stiffened as the beam engulfed him, let out a roar of disapproval and was promptly atomized.
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The blood supply to the skin is reduced when muscles stiffen.
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Dilloh's expression stiffen eL "You could talk to me.
Only You
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Once the Allies were on German territory, enemy resistance stiffened.
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In Elizabethan times the roots were dried and crushed and the powder was mixed with water and used to stiffen the ruffs worn by the gentry.
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My body, stiffened and full of aches from the hardness of my conchy sore and bitten by bedbugs and other insects, finds now no rest; my soul no longer tastes the sleep that brings on oblivion.
Sketchy Thoughts
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I downed the last of my coffee and stiffened my shoulders to come back to the land of the living.
FOOLS GOLD
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Stiffening competition in the market has led to a reduction in the company's profits this year.
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That's impressive for a man his age - perhaps, like me, he has a bad back that stiffens up when he sits.
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The suspended structure was designed to be truss stiffened, and its erection was carried out without disturbing heavy sea traffic reaching about 1400 ships per day.
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In addition, you will need fabric stiffener, a spray bottle, pails in which to soak the leather and acrylic paints or leather stains.
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For this open rift in the leadership is likely only to stiffen the resolve of the hardliners to crack down harder.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stiffening and reinforcement could take the building higher, but not without adding considerable expense.
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Hands trembling, I stiffen my resolve.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wind had come around northwest, stiffening overnight, and everyone knew the cod bit best in a nor'wester.
AMAGANSETT
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Cardiac syncope often causes immediate loss of consciousness, tonic stiffening of body and limbs, and often myoclonic jerking.
