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stilted
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    Her legs stilted with fear, she continued down.†  (source)
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    Although the tone of the journal, written in the third person in a stilted, self-consciousness voice, often veers toward melodrama, the available evidence indicates that McCandless did not misrepresent the facts; telling the truth was a credo he took seriously.†  (source)
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    Our conversations were now stilted and reserved, as if we were both afraid of revealing some key piece of information the other might be able to use.†  (source)
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    Tall as a dead tree in winter all skull, all scarecrow-stilted bones, the thin man, the Skeleton, Mr Skull played his xylophone shadow upon hidden things, cold paper rubbish, warm flinching boys, below.†  (source)
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    "Yes," Cuthbert said, stiltedly formal now.†  (source)
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    Yet despite Francie and Em and our stilted pleasantries in the kitchen, Kitsey's apartment was one of the few places I felt truly safe in New York.†  (source)
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    Stilted.†  (source)
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    She slips away, and I grit my teeth as Grandfather coerces me into a stilted discus sion with the governor.†  (source)
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    A hooded figure stood in the doorway and for a second the Consul thought it was Het Masteen, but then he realized that this man was much shorter, his voice not accented with the stilted Templar consonants.†  (source)
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    And this time she plows forward, reckless, fast, like a motorized car going through snowdrifts, spinning, peeling out, traveling in circles, going nowhere, her words nearly indecipherable as she flies through the stilted speech in that high-pitched, nervous voice.†  (source)
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    I had to read several of the letters he'd received first to pick up the stilted formal style of the day.†  (source)
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    They descended to the main deck, moving in a strange and stilted gait because they were not used to walking with their boots off.†  (source)
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    He tottered on comical, stilted legs to the sheltering side of the mare, peeping around her rear end at Joe.†  (source)
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