Under these average boyish physiognomies that she seems to turn off by the gross, she conceals some of her most rigid, inflexible purposes, some of her most unmodifiable characters; and the dark-eyed, demonstrative, rebellious girl may after all turn out to be a passive being compared with this pink-and-white bit of masculinity with the indeterminate features.
That was the bare fact which Bulstrode was now forced to see in the rigid outline with which acts present themselves to onlookers.
Casaubon would have trained me for, where the doing would be all laid down by a precedent too rigid for me to react upon.
Casaubon kept his hands behind him and allowed her pliant arm to cling with difficulty against his rigid arm.
In chuckling over the vexations he could inflict by the rigid clutch of his dead hand, he inevitably mingled his consciousness with that livid stagnant presence, and so far as he was preoccupied with a future life, it was with one of gratification inside his coffin.
He was one of those rare men who are rigid to themselves and indulgent to others.
For it must be remembered that this was a dark period; and in spite of venerable colleges which used great efforts to secure purity of knowledge by making it scarce, and to exclude error by a rigid exclusiveness in relation to fees and appointments, it happened that very ignorant young gentlemen were promoted in town, and many more got a legal right to practise over large areas in the country.
At that time there was no rigid sequestration on the islands, and lepers, if they chose, were allowed to go free.
I should be sorry if my conscience, insisting on a rigid attention to the matter in hand, forced me to dismiss him in a couple of lines.
Looking up the river, they could see Otter start up, tense and rigid, from out of the shallows where he crouched in dumb patience, and could hear his amazed and joyous bark as he bounded up through the osiers on to the path.
Mole stood a moment rigid, while his uplifted nose, quivering slightly, felt the air.
Miss Josephine Barry, thin, prim, and rigid, was knitting fiercely by the fire, her wrath quite unappeased and her eyes snapping through her gold-rimmed glasses.
She looked like a woman of narrow experience and rigid conscience, which she was; but there was a saving something about her mouth which, if it had been ever so slightly developed, might have been considered indicative of a sense of humor.
MOM JEANS Just the term mom jeans conjures up an image of high-waisted rigid denim jeans with straight (but not tight!
"Travel demand has been falling, but demand for food is pretty rigid.
These men will only become more rigid over time.
That ugly word that implied everything dark, blank, rigid, and helpless.
Not once was the situation so cast-iron rigid that I had no chance at all.
Be rigid.
Moreover, it's soft and flexible, with only a few small rigid components.
