Sentence examples for stiff collar from inspiring English sources

The high, stiff collar, introduced in 1816, gives them a problem-cadets losing and gaining weight.

"In the City it was the bowler hat and stiff collar brigade.

The image of Santos-Dumont in his Panama hat and high, stiff collar is almost omnipresent among Brazilians.

Dressed in a stiff collar sticking into his neck, Jung pays homage to Freud in Vienna, and Freud later returns the visit in Switzerland.

I loathed having to look after this fifty-year-old man, his frisky mullet warming the back of his neck above the stiff collar".

Then they made a new recording and traced the unseemly sound to the banker's stiff collar, which squeaked with each movement of his epiglottis.

For their part, the men are discomforted only by being obliged to wear stiff collars.

The New Yorker, June 21 , 1930 P. 9Lady has dog whose delight is chewing up fresh new stiff collars.

Others look distinctively and unabashedly Prussian: gray tunics with short, stiff collars, spiked helmets, and black leather boots.

When they weren't singing, they became boys again; fidgeting, picking their noses and ears, scratching at their stiff collars.

By N. W. Withey The New Yorker, June 21 , 1930 P. 9Lady has dog whose delight is chewing up fresh new stiff collars.