She had written him a letter, of course, a stiff little note which had taken her hours to compose.

We've sent them a stiff note, and they haven't answered.

Yet there was a stiff note in her voice.

Ethan did resolve to send House Bharaputra a stiff note of complaint, though, later.

The Argentine government had refused to recognize its debts to us both public and private, and several stiff notes had been exchanged.

It was a stiff little note; he guessed that she had written it several times before she had been satisfied with it.

Send them a stiff note?

Very stiff diplomatic note; and Latin temper flares at last: Mexico severs relations.

"Forgive me for dredging up the past," Lady Stokeford said with a stiff note of apology.

He proposes a stiff note to Tito, amounting almost, if not quite, to an ultimatum.