I had to give it up that day, leaving them two birds all ruffled up and mighty cold and standoffish.
"Tales from the Veld"
Ernest Glanville
Nothing standoffish about him,' and he tells me something he shouldn't.
"The Spy"
Richard Harding Davis
His official colleagues were out of the question-the standoffish Englishman, the sullen German, the grotesque Swede who held the highest judicial office.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne