КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «STILTINESS»
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This imparts to it a kind of stiltiness, which approaches the Sophomoric. We have
now and then a metaphor, too; not quite so good as new; as for instance, now, a “
Phenix rising from the ashes of his sire,”-a department of ornithology, whose ...
As they came out, Miss Maria looked thunder at Fanny, and bade the doctor good
morning with a peculiar stiltiness of expression, which implied, in her own
opinion, a great deal more than anybody else could possibly have made of it.
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Means and Ends: Or Self-training
Nothing is more disagreeable than the stiltiness and haranguing of such talkers.
Simplicity and naturalness are the charms of conversation. You will find yourself
better pleased, and often more edified by common sense and good humor, than ...
Catharine Maria Sedgwick,
1839
For the style, it may be occasionally too gorgeous: there are too many good
things, and no resting places, for one who starts fair with the author, and means
to accompany him to the end. This imparts to it a kind of stiltiness, which
approaches ...
James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins,
1841
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The Doberman Pinscher - A Complete Anthology of the Dog -
... seen from behind, placed straight, turning neither in nor out. Faults: Slender or
lightly-muscled hindlegs, stiffness or stiltiness in hindquarters. FEET—Short, well-
arched, compact, dew-claws to be removed at the time of the docking of the tail.
L's millennial corpselike stiltiness. Good as I know L to be, he is most
misabiliously unsatisfactory as a companion. Fri: 4. Unwei] all night, diarrhoea all
day, better at night. Feb 5. Ill whether from internal cold and cold feet I cannot tell.
Called L ...
As they came out, Miss Maria looked thunder at Fanny, and bade the doctor good
morning with a peculiar stiltiness of expression, which implied, in her own
opinion, a great deal more than anybody else could possibly have made of it.
Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith,
1839
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British Poultry Standards
... stiltiness or in-kneed appearance. Well balanced. Type: Body wide at the
shoulders and narrowing slightly to root of tail. Back long and flat, sloping slightly
to the tail. Breast round, full and prominent, carried well forward; breastbone
straight.
Soundness is of paramount importance and stiltiness, loaded or slack shoulders,
straight shoulder placement, weakness at elbows, pasterns or feet, straight stifles,
cow or bow hocks, must be regarded as serious faults. When trotting the feet ...
Richard G. Beauchamp,
2007
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The Mating and Breeding of Poultry
There is a tendency in this breed for the fowls to lack size, especially in the
females, and along with this lack in size goes a lack in the size of bone and a
shortness of back. There is also somewhat of a tendency toward stiltiness ; that is,
the ...
Harry M. Lamon, Rob Roy Slocum,
1920