Against this glowing background her slim, erect figure, stiff with unbendable pride, stood out in vivid relief.
"Petticoat Rule"
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
She was essentially graceful even in the studied stiffness of her movements; a stiffness which she had practised and then made entirely her own, and which was somehow expressive of the unbendable hauteur of her moral character.
"Petticoat Rule"
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
They seemed absolutely unbendable and so we soaked them with castor-oil.
"“Crumpsâ€Â, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went"
Louis Keene