Rigid

Examples

• He was one of those rare men who are rigid to themselves and indulgent to others. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And the rigid examination system that killed all intellectual initiatives has been destroyed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But conditions change whether statesmen wish them to or not; society must have new institutions to fit new wants, and all that rigid conservatism can do is to make the transitions difficult. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Among the more rigid socialists and reformers it is not customary to spend much time discussing mental habits. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was so dark now you could only see the flakes blowing past and the rigid dark of the pine trunks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They fell into his, while her arms, extended but not rigid, kept him far enough off to let her surrendered face say the rest. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The girl, standing pale and rigid against the farther wall, sought with ever-increasing terror for some loophole of escape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He should have addressed her at once in solemn accents, and with rigid mien. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He stood against assumptions, and insisted on rigid proof. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Yes, I was right: it was Mr. Brocklehurst, buttoned up in a surtout, and looking longer, narrower, and more rigid than ever. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Glancing at Holmes, I saw his face turn rigid, and he leaned forward in intense excitement. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Trifling variations in the ingredients, in the proportion and in the heating, made it either pliable as kid, tougher than ox hide, as elastic as whalebone, or as rigid as flint. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The really rigid and mechanical thing is the charter behind which Tammany works. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He was a man of such rigid refinement, that he would have starved rather than have dined without a white neckcloth. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She is just to the conquered, but rigid. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I grant that in the rigid political conditions prevailing to-day a new issue is an embarrassment, perhaps a hindrance to the procedure of political life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They were not savage men either of them, though it appeared both were rigid, for they fined a delinquent who came considerably too late. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You are rigid with me, and I deserve it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In testing the recipes follow the directions with rigid care, and practice on a small quantity of the article until you get it right. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Clayton stood rigid, with raised spear. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I raised his rigid limbs, I marked the distortion of his face, and the stony eyes lost to perception. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mr. Rochester heard, but heeded not: he stood stubborn and rigid, making no movement but to possess himself of my hand. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He remained rigid, his back to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Miss Murdstone gave me her chilly finger-nails, and sat severely rigid. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Mr Lammle shrugged his shoulders, and Mrs Lammle sat rigid. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I saw full well that no spark of life existed in that ruined form, his features were rigid, his eyes glazed, his head had fallen back. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• For a moment his rigid countenance relaxed with a quiver of content: quickly bent up again, however, he went on,-- Vite à l'ouvrage! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• For notice how it ignores human wants and human powers--how it subordinates people to a rigid formula. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For an instant he was rigid and motionless. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• No sooner had Yeobright gone from his mother's house than her face changed its rigid aspect for one of blank despair. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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