She drew herself up straight and rather starchily said: “Government, dear.

'I do have other customers in the club tonight,' she reminded him starchily.

Her style, starchily eccentric, has remained consistent through the years, indeed sometimes doggedly so.

You haven't filled this out properly," the crone said starchily when Dunworthy gave her the form. "

"That would be too bad because that's not what Willie Horton was about at all," she replied, starchily.

She concluded starchily: "The subject of Freemen will not be discussed within these pages."

The inn itself has its own res taurant, decent food and starchily soft-spoken service.

She waited starchily, receiver in hand.

Nevertheless, when, ten minutes later, a nurse rustled starchily in, she found him pacing the room again. '

But it does not mean,' she said starchily, 'that one is totally without influence, or that propriety has been put in abeyance.

- rather than a moral one, the President told Congress starchily that he could not "compound a violent act with the taking of an unborn life."

The average Frenchman, he declared starchily, produces one-third the emissions of the average American.

Everything is starchily upright about her except her flip hairdo, which has wilted in the humidity.

Thank you, Lord Londonderry, for recalling our attention," says Daun starchily. "

That interdiction is somewhat new, some foreign critics starchily note, since France is known to have made payments to foreign hostage-takers in the past.

She said starchily, quite sorry that she had apologised, "We shall expect you in the morning, Dr. Cameron."

Missiles of all shapes and colors whizzed through his field of vision and splathunked starchily against tables, pillars and bodies.

Gwendolen only said starchily, "I don't worry so much about the heathen in summer when it's warm, but oh, what DO they do in cold weather?"

Some Staff Apprehension Dr. Reynolds starchily defends her style, saying she was subjected to sexism in the largely male California system.

Typically, the songs flickered between thrashing two-beat rhythms and a starchily funky four, with a flowing, histrionic high-note guitar solo nailed somewhere in the middle.

She married at 35, was widowed at 45, and, starchily and with considerable airs, raised the two daughters from that brief marriage on a schoolteacher's meager wages.

Whereupon he props himself up rather starchily on one elbow and says, 'I suppose I'd better start to worry about AIDS now, hadn't I?'

A little dainty old lady took care of me, moving starchily with a silver tea service on a tray and bringing me a glass of elderberry wine each evening for my health's sake.

Mr. Russert starchily replied: "We don't talk about whether leaks come from the White House, from Ken Starr, from the State Department, from the Pentagon.

Leaning from the window, he blares out his name through the van's loudspeakers, and a team of white-gloved ladies known as uguisu-jo, or warbler girls, echoes him, waving starchily at a lone pensioner.