The wind of their running was cold and wild, the horses were lathered and their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind.

His face was stiff with anger when they let go of his arms.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

His steps were short and stiff, and, with his head thrown back, his progress was a supercilious strut.

His moustache was very stiff and military.

Pavia offered stiff resistance however, and was only taken after a siege lasting three years.

The settlement was at Baracoa, but the new settlers were to be greeted with stiff resistance from the local Taíno population.

" Before this, he had published several works on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and its consequences, but his literary capacity was mediocre, his style stiff and cold, and it was his personal character rather than his reputation as a writer that earned him the confidence of the elector.

" In September of the same year, Griffith mocked Adams by mimicking his Pippy the Ziphead creation with a strip showing stiff, Dilbert-like creations in an office setting and one of the characters saying, " I sense a joke was delivered.

Thomas was not a natural actor, and initially, his performances were criticized as stiff and ineffective by advertising critics.

But Humble Oil still faced stiff competition from such national brands such as Shell and Texaco, which at that time was the only company to market under one brand name in all 50 states.

The dairy industry was further handicapped by the difficulties of trying to transport milk over poor roads in a tropical country, as well as by stiff competition in the domestic market from subsidized foreign imports, mostly from the United States.

After facing stiff resistance in an invasion of Finland, an interim peace was entered, granting the Soviet Union the eastern region of Karelia ( 10 % of Finnish territory ).

This was in stark contrast to the stiff representations of birds by his contemporaries, such as Alexander Wilson.

One of his grievances was that he had to exchange his stylish Paris suit for a stiff uniform and pigtail.

On the other side, I was sorry to find most of the Parliament men as stiff, in requiring an absolute submission to their authority as if no differences had happened among us, nor the privileges of Parliament ever been violated, peremptorily insisting upon the entire subjection of the army, and refusing to hearken to any terms of accommodation, though the necessity of affairs seemed to demand it, if we would preserve our cause from ruin.

The film, produced in 1913, showed the play's Broadway actors reciting every line of dialogue, resulting in a stiff film that Pickford later called " one of the worst I ever made ... it was deadly.

After his return to Vienna, his father was concerned about Rudolf's aloof and stiff manner, typical of the more conservative Spanish court, rather than the more relaxed and open Austrian court ; but his Spanish mother saw in him courtliness and refinement.

Its aim was to increase the lifespan of the aging Mega Drive / Genesis system, which was facing increasingly stiff competition from the SNES.

The cable was stiff and difficult to bend around corners.

However, rotoscoping made the animation look stiff and the technique was later used more for studying human and animal movement, rather than directly tracing and copying filmed movements.

The Acadian resistance, in concert with native allies, including the Mi ' kmaq, was sometimes quite stiff, with ongoing frontier raids ( against Dartmouth and Lunenburg among others ).

The most generalized type was Coryphodon, representing the family Coryphodontidae, from the lower Eocene of Europe and North America, in which there were 44 teeth and no horn-like excrescences on the long skull, while the femur had a third trochanter.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from c. 600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein ( κερητίζειν ) because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick ( kéras, κέρας ) In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1, 000 years.

The M1916 design had side-mounted horn-like ventilator lugs which were intended to be support for an additional steel brow plate or Stirnpanzer, which only ever saw limited use by snipers and trench raiding parties, as it was too heavy for general use.

But whenever a major purchase was contemplated forty years ago -- a new bedroom set or a winter coat, an Easter bonnet, a bicycle for Junior -- the family set off for the downtown department store, where the selection would be greatest.

" bonnet ", a general word for headgear ), also " Pickelhelm ," was a spiked helmet worn in the 19th and 20th centuries by German military, firefighters, and police.

The overall styling was created by Dutchman Harm Lagaay, a member of the Porsche styling team, with the hidden headlights, sloping bonnet line and grille-less nose giving the car its popular wedge shape.

The Trabant was a steel monocoque design with roof, bootlid / trunklid, bonnet / hood, bumpers / fenders and doors in Duroplast, a hard plastic similar to bakelite made of recycled materials: cotton waste from the Soviet Union and phenol resins from the East German dye industry, making the Trabant the first car with a body made of recycled material.

This car was essentially a facelift of the P60, with a different front fascia, bonnet, roof and rear, whilst retaining the original P50 underpinnings.

Lewis Carroll decided to suppress a scene involving what was described as " a wasp in a wig " ( possibly a play on the commonplace expression " bee in the bonnet ").

Further improvements followed: the engine moved to the front on the Type 48 and was soon under a hood ( bonnet ) at the front of the car, instead of hidden underneath ; the steering wheel was adopted on the Type 36 ; and they began to look more like the modern car.

Steel used for the bodywork was at its best quality, and the Wolfsburg emblem at the tip of the front of the bonnet was a complex fabrication ( subsequent models deleted the emblem ).

Sometimes a veil of this type was draped over and pinned to the bonnet or hat of a woman in mourning, especially at the funeral and during the subsequent period of " high mourning ".

In particular the corrugated Citroën H Van style " ripple bonnet " of convex swages was replaced ( except for the Sahara ), with one using six larger concave swages and looked similar until the end of production.

She took to removing her bonnet during Sunday sermons to ease the pain, but was required to sit in the back row so that others would not see her bareheaded in church.

His coat was left upon the Peatlaw ; and his bonnet, which had fallen off in the course of his aerial journey, was afterwards found hanging upon the steeple of the church of Lanark.

From then on, the car was a 1976 – 1980 model ( registration SLW 287R ), Austin Citron Green in colour with a satin black bonnet.

Count Louis-Mathieu Molé described the fabled lover as " a little old man dressed in a hideous cotton dressing gown with a pattern of blue stripes and red bouquets, a wispy cotton bonnet on his head, using a cane walking stick with a gold knob as tall as he was to support his wobbly steps.

One marketing feature of these engines was their impressive length — some of the Duesenberg engines were over long, resulting in the long hood ( bonnet ) found on these automobiles.

For 1969, the Mark II range was given subtle revisions, with separate " FORD " block letters mounted on the bonnet and boot lids, a blacked out grille and chrome strips on top and below the taillights running the full width of the tail panel marking them out.

The Mark III was heavily inspired by the contemporary " coke bottle " design language which had emanated from Detroit-the car sported the same fluted bonnet design and beltline from the North American Ford LTD of the same era.

However, it was a purely a cosmetic change, as a four-cylinder bonnet will fit over a six-cylinder Cortina's engine bay.

The black bonnet / hood of the Viva GT was hard to miss

It was distinguished by having a black bonnet with twin louvres and being all-over white.