On the bed, at full length, and faintly illuminated by the pale light that came from the window, lay a sack of canvas, and under its rude folds was stretched a long and
stiffened form; it was Faria's last winding-sheet, -- a winding-sheet which, as the turnkey said, cost so little.
My limbs
stiffened under the strain of violent cramp.
Her mouth
stiffened, the muscles of the cheek contracted on the right side of her pale, nervous face.
In one mysterious instant all her beauty left her; her face
stiffened awfully, like the face of a corpse.
He saw that the skin was beautiful, which appealed to his barbaric sense of ornamentation, and when it
stiffened and later commenced to decompose because of his having no knowledge of how to cure or tan it was with sorrow and regret that he discarded it.
He
stiffened himself upon the spout, pushed against the wall with both his knees, clung to a crevice in the stones with his hands, and succeeded in climbing back with one foot, perhaps; but this effort made the leaden beak on which he rested bend abruptly.
Just as horses shy and snort and gather about a dead horse, so the inmates of the house and strangers crowded into the drawing room round the coffin- the Marshal, the village Elder, peasant women- and all with fixed and frightened eyes, crossing themselves, bowed and kissed the old prince's cold and
stiffened hand.
This god,
stiffened electrically and pointed Jerry along the deck, and, with mouth encouragements and urgings the import of which Jerry could only guess, directed him toward the one who so commanded by saying:
That first meeting in the Barbary Coast cabaret, Michael had bristled at him, and
stiffened belligerently, when he laid his hand on Michael's head.
His muzzle went up, his tail
stiffened, and his nostrils dilated as he scented the air.
The chin, with the damp black beard, pointed higher in the air as the back muscles
stiffened and the chest swelled in an unconscious and instinctive effort to get more air.
For a moment he sat perfectly still and then his body
stiffened and he sprang to his feet.