Usage of "straight-backed"

In a straight-backed manner.

Straight-backed.

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Straight-backed.

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Uso de straight-backed en inglés

This model may also suggest that straight-backed Neanderthals had reduced lumbar mobility. 
 Pubmed 

She sat down rather stiffly in the straight-backed armchair beside the fire. 
 Three Soldiers 

But the Jinni only stood straight-backed and grim, staring at the water. 
 The Golem and the Jinni 

He sits, straight-backed, in his chair-keepinghis diaphragm unencumbered throughout his presentation. 
 Wired 

A straight-backed wooden chair with a needlepoint cushion stood facing the desk. 
 The Demon Lover 

She stood up so suddenly she almost knocked the straight-backed chair over. 
 IT 

Sylvia came closer to her and sat down on a straight-backed chair. 
 The Bent Twig 

Jack's straight-backed, brown-ink copperplate told her to assume a multiplier of fifty. 
 Atonement 

She stood straight-backed as an Indian, carrying her head with fine spirit. 
 Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story 

Lady Tressady was sitting upright on the straight-backed sofa of George's smoking-room. 
 Sir George Tressady — Volume I 

This sense of retro, straight-backed decency is probably Moyes's defining quality. 
 The Guardian 

Selma managed to seat herself on the one straight-backed chair in the room. 
 Unleavened Bread 

Andrew lit a pipe and sat down in the straight-backed arm-chair. 
 The Mountebank 

This unpleasant woman was, however, too straight-backed for her chaperonage to succeed completely. 
 The Fifth Head of Cerberus 

Mrs. Abbot reseated herself in the straight-backed chair she usually affected. 
 The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest 

There were two straight-backed chairs on opposite sides of the board. 
 The unseen 

Significados de straight-backed en inglés