Even my mother took part in this conversation, for when we were all together now she grew stiff and still.

I got up with some difficulty, having grown quite stiff from crouching over him so long.

My lips, now, as I speak of it, grow stiff.

She huddled still in the window seat, but was beginning to grow stiff.

At the thought of it she felt her back grow stiff.

His small shoulders grew stiff with the effort he was making to force it open.

Then suddenly he grew stiff, and his whisper struck out like a knife.

I am so careful not to look behind me that my neck grows stiff.

She grew stiff with holding herself motionless and still the noise went on.

Grown stiff with age, he did not move around too much.