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More than the stiffish text, the hundreds of pictures disclose her allure, the poetry of her body and even the evangelical frenzy that sent her forth to conquer the world's stages.

From Time Magazine Archive

Furnished in stiffish fashion, the apartment includes a well-stocked library equipped with everything from Joe Miller's Joke Book to the works of Schopenhauer.

From Time Magazine Archive

The chief feature of Revelstoke's reception was a motor run up Revelstoke mountain, a four thousand feet ride up a stiffish road that climbed by corkscrew bends.

From Westward with the Prince of Wales by Newton, W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas)

Paper Darts Take a sheet of stiffish paper about the size of this page and fold it longways, exactly double.

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

They have fibrous-coated corms, stiffish, ribbed, sword-like leaves, and more or less funnel-shaped flowers.

From Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air by Weathers, John