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Their talk was framed in stilted phrases, inconsecutive.
2
It was only a passing indisposition, said Mr. Haim, using one of his ridiculously stilted phrases.
3
The stilted phrases were slipping away.
4
He marvelled at the stilted phrases.
5
Looking nervous, and talking in stilted phrases, she said her husband had quit the Russian military in December last year.
6
The mottoes of the two nations are as well rendered in the vernacular as by any formal or stilted phrases.
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No, it was the precise, formal English of a foreigner, with here and there a ludicrous error among the stilted phrases.
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Not for us to vex our memories and stultify our wit with the stilted phrases that are the fruit of a wretched author's lucubrations.