"Stilted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and "concludes"—never begins and ends, who never uses a short word if he can find a long word, who systematically rejects terse and idiomatic Anglo-Saxon when a Latinism is to be employed and whose pompous stilted periods are the very triumph of the "Deadly-lively"! By arts precisely similar the learned George Sale made the Koran, that pure and unstudied inspiration of Arabian eloquence, dull as a law document, and left the field clear for ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... that stilted loftiness which dignitaries are wont to assume on great occasions. All the same, there were tears of joy in Jan's eyes and he had hard work to keep ...
— The Emperor of Portugalia • Selma Lagerlof
... Lady Blakeney now took up her stand on the exquisitely decorated landing, ready to greet her guests. She had a smile and a pleasant word for all, as, in a constant stream, the elite of London fashionable society began to file past her, exchanging the elaborate greetings which the stilted mode of the ...
— The Elusive Pimpernel • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... New York and London in his queer stilted way. He had been a fireman on board ship, a teacher of jiujitsu, a juggler, a quack dentist, Heaven knows what else. Driven by the conscientious inquisitiveness of his race, he had endured hardships, contempt and rough treatment with the smiling patience ...
— Kimono • John Paris
... he had a "grave and sedate appearance", and the somewhat stilted form of the question is quite in harmony ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature • Ontario Ministry of Education
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