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Updated: June 17, 2025
Mash well the berries so as to remove the skins; pour all into a preserving kettle and cook slowly for a few minutes to extract the juice; strain through a colander, and then through a flannel jelly-bag, keeping as hot as possible, for if not allowed to cool before putting again on the stove the jelly conies much stiffer; a few quince seeds boiled with the berries the first time tend to stiffen it; measure the juice, allowing a pound of sugar to every pint of juice, and boil fast for at least half an hour.
They did not meet often at dances, but at stiffer functions, at the Opera, and also twice in the country once on the river on a Sunday afternoon, and once for a whole week-end party, which last days deserve to be treated in more detail.
One final thud and she wrenched herself bodily free, found her anchor, and rode clear. On the whole I think we made few mistakes. Davies had a supreme aptitude for the work. Every hour, sometimes every minute, brought its problem, and his resource never failed. The stiffer it was the cooler he became.
He replied that that was not the account she had given of herself. I said, Perhaps not. But if she wasn't unhappy now she very soon would be if he persisted in refusing to acknowledge them. But his lip went stiffer and stiffer. He was too unhappy himself to be got at that way. So I took him on the ground of expediency. I said after all Jevons was his son-in-law. He couldn't go on ignoring Jevons.
A description of his appearance at this period is extant: "He was cramped into a uniform of the old Prussian cut, that on army surgeons had an even uglier, stiffer look; his little military hat barely covered his crown, behind which hung a long queue, while round his neck was screwed a horse-hair stock several sizes too small. More wondrous, however, was the nether part of him.
Lord Ava watched its issue from the fighting line beside men with whom he had scaled the rough heights of Elandslaagte and the stiffer steeps of Gun Hill.
I can't take the responsibility." Colina shrugged. "Then the Grampierres and I must go by ourselves," she said. Plaskett became even stiffer and more uncomfortable. "Germain Grampierre and his brother had no business to leave home," he said. "By their own confessions they are implicated in the raid on the Company's flour-mill.
But there is something piercingly penetrating and austere even in the consolations of this new faith. He did but remind the children of the burden of gratitude laid upon them. "Would you let him stiffer so much in vain? His suffering has made you and me happier and better to-day, at this moment, than we could have been without Jesus. You will understand how, and why, more clearly when you grow up.
There was a rather dreadful levity in the way she put it. "Stiffer and stiffer till I harden into one position, sitting or lying down, immovable. I'll have to go on living that way years, you see. I'll have to choose which way. Isn't it hideous? And I'll go on living that way, you see. Me. You don't know, of course, but it seems particularly hideous, because I'm not a bit an immovable sort.
Then an imposing young woman sauntered towards him. "Well," she said severely, "what can I show you?" Banks drew himself a little stiffer. "A dress," he said abruptly in his highest key, "ready-made and pink." "What size?" "Why" the little man paused, and a blush that was nearer a shadow crossed his weather-worn face "let me see.
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