The young girl's arms fell by her side in a sudden rigidity.

Eugene turned pale, and a sudden rigidity seized his features.

Else, why the constrained attitude and sudden rigidity observable in this confronting figure, with its partially lifted hand?

The sound of my voice seemed to steady him into a sudden rigidity, but otherwise he took no notice.

He searched in the breast of his coat, and did not see the sudden rigidity that fell on the girl.

But as he turned a pleading look to her, he had been startled by the sudden rigidity of face and form.

At last she smelt of the flower itself, and her sudden rigidity showed that she had perceived the great spider on it.

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

Either the guard captain heard Matsui's voice or sensed his presence, because he turned, his shock evident in the sudden rigidity of his posture.

I was inclined to believe it a snake and to account in that way for Captain Ballantyne's fear and the sudden rigidity of his attitude.

"No," she said, with sudden rigidity.