Surviving at all would be miraculous--he couldn't afford to be stingy ab0ut the details, Punching the controls to cycle air back into the lock, a sudden rigidity along his muscles startled a gasp from him and locked him immobile.

Then came a sudden rigidity.

His great arm was about her thin body and she was very aware of its sudden rigidity.

But does any man know this infinitely important thing; Why, three days ago, when Warren Lewellyn first lit that lamp, seven of us died in sudden silent rigidity while we eleven, who stood beside and among them, are here this hour?

Judging from the sudden rigidity of her body under the silk, she had obviously not been aware of his presence.

And then, as though the hand of Death had reached out and touched them all, the five men tensed into sudden rigidity.

Conan did not reply, but the sudden rigidity of his form betrayed his interest.

The streets were filled with people at this hour, but something in the sudden rigidity of the people he was tracking had set off his own warning bell.

Mammalian muscle becomes rigid with heat rigor at about 50 C, with the sudden rigidity of the whole body rendering life impossible.

Because she was watching them, Serena saw the sudden rigidity in the fingers that lay on the desk.