Her stiff-lipped father would not be able to deny 29 him.

And he had turned away with a little stiff-lipped smile of satisfaction.

But we're not talking proper in the stuffy stiff-lipped sense.

The stiff-lipped daughters show how determined they are after Lear has left.

After the filing, even Britain's most stiff-lipped bankers were concerned.

But the company, all in all, was a very stiff-lipped bunch.

Stiff-lipped and severe, he circled the foot end of the corpse.

Of course, it wasn’t all about stiff-lipped English resistance.

Dawson grinned, stiff-lipped, but didn't say anything for a moment, or two.

Men used to be pretty stiff-lipped about pain.

"But all that means," he added with stiff-lipped resolve, "is we just work a little bit harder."

It's going to be interesting, watching us being British and stiff-lipped, while the storm-clouds gather.

In stiff-lipped silence he hauled her to her feet.

Partridge herself would later describe as “shattering” this stiff-lipped Victorian stricture.

To them, Putin represents a stiff-lipped pragmatism when it comes to the West.

Two prisoners were taken, white-faced, stiff-lipped, only slightly injured.

Yet some commentators see in the role a thinly veiled caricature of the stiff-lipped Pears.

In stiff-lipped silence, he watched Emien drive the sailhands to the benches with the lash.

With what one might call stiff-lipped ambivalence, the English are observing the 350th anniversary of their own Civil War.

He forces ludicrous stunts on normally stiff-lipped megastars.

A late middle-aged woman in a white hijab, stiff-lipped, dessicated by tension, rigidly respectable.

This was in the stiff-lipped era before substitutions were authorized, so Jonquet limped and soldiered on.

And to the stiff-lipped McGee, obviously a Jezebel.

She was stiff-backed, stiff-necked, stiff-lipped, and reminded Limbeckmuch to his discomfitureof his mother.