Слово "stiff". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

  Alexander Ossipon got up, tall in his threadbare blue serge suit under the low ceiling, shook off the stiffness of long immobility, and strolled away into the kitchen (down two steps) to look over Stevie’s shoulder.

He was a short and solid old man in a black peasant's smock and gray iron-stiff trousers and he wore rope-soled shoes.

Add to this that Gray, the new man, had his face tied up in a bandage for a cut he had got in breaking away from the mutineers and that poor old Tom Redruth, still unburied, lay along the wall, stiff and stark, under the Union Jack.

Afternoons, when the fossil sea was warm and motionless, and the wine trees stood stiff in the yard, and the little distant Martian bone town was all enclosed, and no one drifted out their doors, you could see Mr. K himself in his room, reading from a metal book with raised hieroglyphs over which he brushed his hand, as one might play a harp.

You were stiff, and were having convulsions.

It seemed to Lucy only the next minute (though really it was hours and hours later) when she woke up feeling a little cold and dreadfully stiff and thinking how she would like a hot bath.

A couple of times I tried pushing through it, but it still was as stiff and strong as ever.

The figure was stiff; but the signature was good for more than that if it was only genuine.

It is peculiarly strong and stiff.”

‘It is no longer needed, comrade,’ said Squealer stiffly. ‘“Beasts of England” was the song of the Rebellion.

“I shall do nothing of the sort,” she said stiffly.

“I am a machine,” I reply stiffly. “A machine of my grade does not experience intermediate states between function and nonfunction. I go or I do not go, you understand?

I don’t as a rule cotton to Britishers – they’re a stiff-necked lot – but I liked this one.”

McGonagall's face was stiff.

The seminary occupied the buildings of an old Dominican monastery, and two hundred years ago the square courtyard had been stiff and trim, and the rosemary and lavender had grown in close-cut bushes between the straight box edgings.

Pickering: we have taken on a stiff job.

Her face was covered with wrinkles, her hair was nearly white, and she walked rather stiffly.

"Yes. I believe she has passed quite a stiff exam."

We were about three miles from the shore and a stiff breeze was blowing.

"Enter, then, and look," said Father Wolf stiffly, "but there is no food here."

Looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over.

“You’re off colour, that’s what’s the matter with you,” Henry dogmatised. “What you need is quinine, an’ I’m goin’ to dose you up stiff as soon as we make McGurry.”

Neilson poured his visitor a good stiff glass of whisky and gave him a cigar.

I said, 'I could face a stiff drink soon.

The figure was stiff; but the signature was good for more than that if it was only genuine.

The machine goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working of it, and it has lost a little of its force.

The figure was stiff; but the signature was good for more than that if it was only genuine.

“Voice be damned!” He bent stiffly over her.

Nor was she above slashing his shoulder sharply on occasion. At such times he betrayed no anger. He merely sprang to the side and ran stiffly ahead for several awkward leaps, in carriage and conduct resembling an abashed country swain.

He climbed stiffly down the ladder and was rowed to a little cove.

'Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock Turtle said: 'I'm too stiff.

“Because you’re going to need a very stiff drink.”

It had been so awful – that time – and to have it all raked up again. And to be suspected and perhaps thrown into prison. I was just scared stiff, M. Poirot.

The machine goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working of it, and it has lost a little of its force.

I do not know whether it is from temperament or from organic indisposition, but, judging from the expression of Madame's face, her severe gestures, and the stiff bending of her body, she cares nothing at all for love.

He smiled stiffly in answer to Julia’s warm, ready smile and she felt the palm of his hand wet with sweat when she cordially grasped it.

“Think so?” Philadelphia Red queried sweetly, ere his tones turned to savageness. “Why, you old stiff, you couldn’t get nothin’.

I just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs.

"Just between ourselves, Blore, and taking into account that we'll probably both be a couple of stiffs before another day is out, you did indulge in that spot of perjury, I suppose?"

We got a stiff upstairs. It's a guy from the heist.