He was a tall man, thin and stiff as a ramrod.

Said he was as stiff as a ramrod and would get nowhere, but he's pretty hard on people anyway.

Harriet, standing beside them, was stiff as a ramrod.

The peddler arose very slowly from his fire and stood as stiff as a ramrod.

His tail was as stiff as a ramrod.

I turned to the footman, who was standing stiff as a ramrod in the doorway, looking dignified and suspicious.

Then, coming down, he stood transfixed at his full height as stiff as a ramrod, staring at me with incredible wonder.

Dandy got me up, and he ought to know what is what," demanded Mac, folding his hands and standing as stiff as a ramrod.

Suddenly Billy's arm rose stiff as a ramrod and pointed directly at Ikey, and from his throat came the howl.

And there, stiff as a ramrod, was the fourth lieutenant, William Martin, popularly known as 'Blower' because of his skill with the flute.

Each creature stood stiff as a ramrod, and all wore every available piece of equipment, including heavy spears, shields and full packs stuffed with rocks strapped to their backs.

He just turned and walked away, his back stiff as a ramrod ... but it wasn't even thirty minutes until he and Laura drove from town in a buckboard.

Well, he sat down as stiff as a ramrod, and was talking in a grand style about the great doings at the castle, while she was getting the tea and toast ready.

The slapped man waved me away; he no longer looked slapped but stood stiff as a ramrod, his dark silhouette, sustained by roses and the voices of rare birds, embodying the school, its founder, the Conradinian spirit, the Conradinum; for that was the name of our school.

It stretched on for a while, straight as a ramrod.

An old man, evidently their colonel, stood straight as a ramrod before them.

He was standing straight as a ramrod now.

Straight as a ramrod, Herbie marched to the bar.

A spinally woman of advanced years came forward to greet them, her back as straight as a ramrod.

He sat straight as a ramrod, looking inward while Moichi waited without, patiently thinking his own thoughts.

Back straight as a ramrod, he advanced across the carpet, and knelt formally before Jamie, who looked nonplussed at this behavior.

He perched on the edge of the sofa, his back as straight as a ramrod, and fidgeted with his hands rather than looking at her.

His back was also as straight as a ramrod and his highly polished black gaiters had flashed in the sun.

Khalenberg stood, straight as a ramrod.

But now the club head was going back, coming down, the left knee bent correctly in towards the ball, the left arm straight as a ramrod.

And Lazarides beside him, straight as a ramrod in the night and the fog, affecting those dark glasses of his even now.

One of the tall tubular torsos stood abruptly as straight as a ramrod and came forward, the bullet head exalted.

"That is correct, Your Highness," Jaiswal answered, standing straight as a ramrod.

She was gone, her sensible brogue shoes clattering on the polished cement floor, her back straight as a ramrod and her bobbed head held high.

He looked precisely what he was, a Prussian military man, his back as straight as a ramrod, his almost totally bald head held high and proud.

Her back was as straight as a ramrod, which made her feel a little more dignified while engaging in what she considered the unladylike art of cycling.

Myrtle's adoring view of Georgie ("Of average height, stout of build, he walked with his feet turned out and back straight as a ramrod.

She was unhappily aware of the picture she must present to him: her long bare legs as straight as a ramrod; her spine curved downwards from her elevated buttocks; and her seat raised so vulnerably.

In an instant he stood as stiff and straight as a ramrod, and the heavy eyes kindled with an angry spark as he said, in his high and mighty manner "You'd better not meddle with what you don't understand, cousin."

A messenger came with a letter to me, and when I looked up to give my answer, there stood a tall, grizzled fellow, as straight as a ramrod, grinning from ear to ear, with his hand to his temple, saluting me in regular style.

Then without waiting for an answer, drawing himself up straight as a ramrod he marched off to assist some popinjays of Abati officers, whom he hated and who hated him, to instil the elements of drill into a newly raised company, leaving me to wonder what fears or premonitions filled his honest soul.

I was as stiff as a poker, and as red-hot with pain.

Come here, Amy, and do the fainting scene, for you are as stiff as a poker in that."

He went on gravely, his eyes twinkling, "As stiff as a poker--I longed to pinch you to see if you were real.

She sprang into my arms and gave me a number of hearty kisses and then, looking over her shoulder to be sure that no one had come yet, she pulled at the strings of my pyjamas and before I knew what she was up to had my prick in her hands as stiff as a poker.