"Rigidly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from Miss Van Tuyn to Arabian, who was still standing up stiffly, with a rigidly polite expression on ...
— December Love • Robert Hichens
... anguish from his presence, and seeking Xarisa, told her of this blow, which was worse than death to me. 'Xarisa,' said I, 'we part for ever! I shall never see thee more! Thy father will guard thee rigidly. Thy beauty and his wealth will soon attract some happier rival, and I shall ...
— Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies • Washington Irving
... obstinacy of feeble and timid spirits. She does not dare to dismiss an incompetent footman; and when she has once made up her mind, which is only possible in matters about which her opinions are rigidly formed, neither force nor persuasion can modify her. That is my reading of her character, and I think it the ...
— The Court of the Empress Josephine • Imbert de Saint-Amand
... of the finest outbursts in the scheme of education which he put forth at a later time is a passage in which he vindicates the province of music as an agent in moral training. His home, his tutor, his school were all rigidly Puritan; but there was nothing narrow or illiberal in his early training. "My father," he says, "destined me while yet a little boy to the study of humane letters; which I seized with such eagerness that from ...
— History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) - Puritan England, 1603-1660 • John Richard Green
... ignorance I think I never heard of!" said Miss Phoebe, rigidly. "I should think the—a—family a most unprofitable one for you to visit, ...
— Geoffrey Strong • Laura E. Richards
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