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Anger and mortification were ill inspirations for letter-writing, but under Lincoln's burning eyes Jason seized a pen and wrote his mother a stilted note. Lincoln paced the floor, pausing now and again to look over Jason's shoulder. "Address it and give it to me," said the President. "I'll see that it gets to her."
Then came his note, written at the Patroons' Club very brief, curiously stilted and formal, with a strange tone of finality through it, as though he were taking perfunctory leave of people who had come temporarily into his life, and as though the chances were agreeably even of his ever seeing them again. The girl was not hurt, as yet; she remained merely confused, incredulous, unreconciled.
A certain stilted, unreal quality? Scarcely. Words refused to fit themselves to the evasive form. Something that suggested the term "second class," though whether it were the manner or the substance that was responsible for the impression, was difficult to say. Sometimes his words allowed two possible interpretations to be put upon a sentence. He was a master of the ambiguous.
Lord Lyons was the British ambassador at Washington when the Prince of Wales now King Edward was betrothed to the Princess Alexandra, of Denmark, since queen regent of England. He used the most stilted, ornate, and diplomatic language to carry the simple fact. The President replied offhand with trenchant advice to the bearer, who was unmarried: "'Go, thou, and do likewise!"
"I felt absolutely hurt, silly and childish as it was to care for so slight a thing. I suppose my tell-tale face showed it, for Mrs. Harrington said, teasingly "'Really, James, you are very stately and magnificent, this morning! that speech sounded grand and stilted enough to have suited Sir Charles Grandison. "He laughed a little, but it sounded so forced that I wondered Mrs.
His pathos, as is the case with all weak writers, constantly trembles on the verge of bathos, while his lack of humour betrays him into penning passages of elaborate fatuity. His style is formal and often stilted, his verse often monotonous and at times heavy.
When I dip into "The Rambler" and "The Idler" now how dry and stilted and artificial their balanced sentences seem! yet I treasure them for what they once were to me. I did not read Boswell's Life of him till much later. In his conversation Johnson got the fulcrum in the right place. I reached home on the twentieth of May with an empty pocket and an empty stomach, but with a bagful of books.
A wall that seemed to isolate those who might live down there and shut them out as though theirs was another world. He touched his horse's flanks, and, with careful, stilted steps, the animal began the descent. And now he speculated as to the whereabouts of the ranch, for he knew that this was the Mosquito River, and somewhere upon its banks stood his future home. As he thought of this he laughed.
"There are enough of us to look after this fire, I think." "But, Tom, it it's the red shed!" gasped Mr. Swift. "I realize that, Dad. But it can't have much of a start yet. Is the alarm ringing, Koku?" "Yes, Master," replied the giant, in correct but stilted English. "I have set the indicator to signal the alarm in every shop on the premises." "That's right." Tom sprang toward the door.
The legs of tables are generally fluted, as noticed above, tapering towards the feet, and are relieved from a stilted appearance by being connected by a stretcher. Made by Riesener for Marie Antoinette. Collection "Mobilier National." M. Williamson quotes verbatim the memorandum of which this was the subject.
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