Pack tightly

Usage examples of stive.

The point-sources were indeed stived as densely as lice on the head of a harijan, but I could find no mappings to the point-exits in the nebula which lay before me, the nebula called the Solid State Entity.

Zastria is a republic, Stive a theocracy, Xornos an oligarchy, and Ganth is ruled by a military dictator.

Then too, imprinting had its dangers, not the least of which was the temptation to stive the brain full of too many data and facts.

Windows and doors were all securely closed, so as to prevent draught, for nothing is so bad as draught when you are hot, and nothing makes you so hot as being stived by hundreds in a narrow space without draught.

Square was entirely stived with row upon row of nervous girls and boys.

The ring, made of diamond and stived with a unique signature of flaws, shattered.

Viewed from the street, the house looked something like a huge, fantastic insect: the main body of natural stone, grey and solid, and the organic stone wings stived with bits of colour, with filaments and streaks of cinnabar, orchid pink and amethyst.

The Tycho, that vain and cunning man, had thought to prevent just such a desecration and theft by ordering that the jewels be impregnated with various impurities and stived with flaws.

The point-sources were stived as closely as the black eggs in the belly of a jewfish.

He seemed to take little account of the wealth they were amassing although daily he'd open the brass lock with which the wood and leather trunk in his quarters was secured and raise the lid and empty whole sacks of valuables into it, the trunk already holding thousands of dollars in gold and silver coins as well as jewelry, watches, pistols, raw gold in little leather stives, silver in bars, knives, silverware, plate, teeth.