He threw himself flat on the ground and lay stiff as a poker.

When she got into bed she lay stiff and straight.

But her body lay stiff and her heart kept thumping.

The little bird was dead and lay stiff on the floor.

He lay stiff on her hand, small, cold and useless.

He sat up painfully, then looked over at his wife who lay cold and stiff on the couch beside him.

Below the cross his black-pajama'd legs lay stiff and straight.

She lay stiff in death, a dark, heavily built woman.

At last he went to bed in a rage, and lay stiff, away from her.

He lay stiff and still beneath the covers, examining himself for pain.