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1 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 .
7 No, it was the precise, formal English of a foreigner, with here and there a ludicrous error among the stilted phrases .
8 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.
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