In a cold, stiff voice he heard himself say, "I will force no medicines upon you, sir.

"Say whatever you like," Brendig said in a stiff voice.

She spoke just as reluctantly in a stiff voice.

"Working," the computer replied in its slightly stiff female voice.

So, when the others thanked the tutor for their things she too added her thanks, though in rather a stiff little voice.

She could hear her voice, very stiff and she tried to remedy matters.

"I must tell you this," Nynaeve said in a stiff voice.

"I hope that you will not find the burden of marriage too onerous," Michael went on in the same stiff voice.

"Turn around and go back the way you came," ordered the stiff voice.