Another look, and he could sense the sudden stiffening of her body.

He also calls for a general stiffening of society's nerve.

He caught the quick stiffening of her shoulders before she turned.

From the stiffening of his shoulders and back, she knew the warning shot had hit home.

Nonetheless, all sides say the decision is an important stiffening of environmental rules.

Immediately she caught the sudden stiffening in the nurse's face.

Or perhaps he felt that the Captain needed a little stiffening of the moral fibre.

And from the stiffening of her body, she had deduced that too.

There need be no "ideas," but only a stiffening of the muscles, followed quickly by action.

We have no bones at all, just a stiffening of cartilage.

The cold, flat answer had her stiffening in defense.

With satisfaction he sensed the slightest stiffening of her body.

After an initial stiffening, the boy relaxed against him, almost clung.

Chen saw the slight stiffening in the man's back and understood.

There's a stiffening of resolve, and it seems to be in the writing."

He could sense the immediate stiffening of the two men on the board, the mounting tension.

He stood up, took a few steps toward her, stopped at the stiffening of her body.

It was a question, but he knew her answer from the stiffening of her neck.

But by that time I had relaxed from my initial automatic stiffening.

The jacket is rounded slightly over the hips, but without any stiffening.

Those who believe that a cultural stiffening of personal standards is still possible point to recent small-scale examples.

The sudden stiffening of her limbs alerted him as nothing else could.

They usually begin with a stiffening of the arms and legs, following by jerking motions.

For example, some patients have reported that eating ice cream leads to a stiffening of the throat.

The stiffening (both kinds) had lessened by the time they went back to the cottage.

His back just stiffened too much to continue, he said later.

The thought stiffened him to go through with the matter.

The boy stiffened, as if trying to come to attention.

Every time he said the word the girl stiffened a little.

When they had gone a little way, he stiffened his face.

By then he was dead, his body beginning to stiffen.

Hard to believe the boy could stiffen even further to attention.

Suddenly he stiffened, and held his head to one side.

The very thought of what they'd done made him stiffen again.

When I brought this up with him, he stiffened a little.

I stiffened, and a cold feeling came into my mind.

In a moment, the man's long face had stiffened for the test.

She must've known from the way my entire body stiffened when I started coming.

Then she looked over my shoulder, and her face stiffened.

But then she thought of something that made her stiffen.

She stiffened and her eyes dropped away from his face.

Then he stiffened a little, looking out through the screen.

The free woman in the audience stiffened at these words.

Peter stiffened up and sat at attention during the service.

A picture on the wall made him stiffen to attention.

This is when your hands and feet start to stiffen.

However, the arm stiffened and he was gone for the night.

The man's face stiffened; something closed down behind his eyes.

She stiffened, and pulled away from him as if he were on fire.

His soldiers stiffened and turned their eyes away from the girls.