The guards stood stiff-backed and unsmiling. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Benjamin saluted and strode off, stiff-backed and proud. From Wordnik.com. [Advance and Retreat]
The commander greeted him with stiff-backed friendliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
"You stiff-backed, bone-brained old fart, you led us on!". From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Gate]
Mr. Wall walked down the line of stiff-backed, silent boys. From Wordnik.com. [Don Strong, Patrol Leader] Reference
She stopped her struggling and stood stiff-backed before him. From Wordnik.com. [Deuces Wild] Reference
He lacks spontaneity and sensibility, he is too stiff-backed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
Sigami stood silently, for all the men were now waiting, stiff-backed. From Wordnik.com. [Ironhand's Daughter]
Shifting in the stiff-backed chair, he crossed and uncrossed his legs. From Wordnik.com. [A STRANGER IS WATCHING] Reference
And George Voight slipped into a stiff-backed chair with a sigh of relief. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Awkwardly clutching the blanket close, she ducked stiff-backed into the tent. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
Abby sat stiff-backed at her dining room table with Montoya and another detective. From Wordnik.com. [Shiver]
Areina was striding away, stiff-backed, casting one look over her shoulder at them. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
Very kind of him, the stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
Shamil and his second in command walked away, stiff-backed and in opposite directions. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Valiant]
She perched stiff-backed on its edge, her white, crinkled-cotton dress ballooning about her. From Wordnik.com. [A Share in Death] Reference
They ate on a card table in the living room, sitting on four mismatched, stiff-backed chairs. From Wordnik.com. [Red Dog]
The men Reidi had lent were a lord's retainers, stiff-backed and properin a gentleman's presence. From Wordnik.com. [2005]
When I explained my Canadianism, the stiff-backed attitudes diminished like a bad smell dissipating. From Wordnik.com. [blog: America] Reference
Standing now before her stiff-backed NASA pilot, Rachel had little doubt her morning plans were cast in stone. From Wordnik.com. [Deception Point]
Cassidy assumed the stiff-backed formal posture of a concert pianist, hands poised dramatically above the keys. From Wordnik.com. [Again to Carthage] Reference
You drive from a kind of pulpit, and the green is below you, protected by large stiff-backed bunkers like pews. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917] Reference
The decor was red Naugahyde, stiff-backed chairs and plain white walls decorated only by a few Nikon calendars. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
The idea that the only dining-room chair possible is a perfectly straight up and down stiff-backed chair is absurd. From Wordnik.com. [The House in Good Taste] Reference
Courtney took off her Akubra hat and sat down, making herself as comfortable as she could in the stiff-backed seat. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage At A Price]
They rather welcomed the sight of Miss Cora, stiff-backed and stern-lipped, bearing down upon them like a tug of war. From Wordnik.com. [Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion] Reference
Leane drew herself up stiff-backed on her knees and swallowed hard before answering, but her voice was perfectly level. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
Cormac walked, stiff-backed, from the smithy and only out of sight of the building did he spit the blood from his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Last Sword Of Power]
Ditto Kevin Costner, who played the stiff-backed Eliot Ness in The Untouchables and who would've made a fine Patrick Fitzgerald. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Watson: Blago! (The Musical)] Reference
As a finishing touch fit the lid inside with clips for holding a stiff-backed writing pad and pencil for the recording of messages. From Wordnik.com. [Things To Make] Reference
It would feel good to stand in the rank again, with a stiff-backed sahib out in front of me, and the thunder of the gun-wheels going by. From Wordnik.com. [In The Time Of Light] Reference
Mother was seated in a stiff-backed chair, wearing a long-sleeved white linen dress, her hair gathered up into a tightly constricted bun. From Wordnik.com. [The Pursuit of Happiness] Reference
Then he curled his hands inward, leaned forward stiff-backed, and, touching his fists to the table top, leaned massively on his knuckles. From Wordnik.com. [The Saturn Game]
John Julius Norwich is an earnest and somewhat stiff-backed editor. From Wordnik.com. [Energy Bulletin -] Reference
When it comes to that, he is very stiff-backed, as I have often had to tell him. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference
Save for one overturned stiff-backed chair, it apparently had not been disturbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Winning Clue] Reference
His mother, at the table, on a stiff-backed chair, was knitting -- everlastingly knitting. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero] Reference
He kept his hands rammed in his pockets, he was as stiff-backed as ever, only his head hung down. From Wordnik.com. [Chance A Tale in Two Parts] Reference
Sir John went to the library and sat rather wearily down in the stiff-backed chair before the fire. From Wordnik.com. [With Edged Tools] Reference
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