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  • Fernando said stolidly.   (source)
    stolidly = having or revealing little emotion
  • Men are beyond fear, working stolidly and patiently, with minds made up to worst.   (source)
    stolidly = unemotionally
  • They all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid, some thought it was a jest and laughed at me.   (source)
    stolid = showing no interest or emotion
  • The youth walked stolidly into the midst of the mob, and with his flag in his hands took a stand as if he expected an attempt to push him to the ground.   (source)
    stolidly = with little emotion
  • And the poor creature dropped on his knees before the stolid murderer, and clasped his appealing hands.   (source)
    stolid = unemotional
  • The stolidity with which I received these instructions was, no doubt, rather exasperating: for they were delivered in perfect sincerity; but I believed a person who could plan the turning of her fits of passion to account, beforehand, might, by exerting her will, manage to control herself tolerably, even while under their influence; and I did not wish to 'frighten' her husband, as she said, and multiply his annoyances for the purpose of serving her selfishness.   (source)
    stolidity = lack of emotion
  • I could imagine Winifred's quavering wail as I barged my way through the stolid carollers, yelling so comfortably about the bitter weather.†   (source)
  • It was a heavy, solid construction designed for stolid floating, not for navigating, though I suppose that if we had been thirty-two to row we could have made some headway.†   (source)
  • The boatman sat at his tiller smoking a pipe, looking stolidly ahead.†   (source)
  • He was Lady Whent's man, stiff-necked and stolid, and the first to rise to aid Catelyn Stark back at the inn.†   (source)
  • He kept his soldiers moving, darting from star to star, wallsliding to get behind and above the stolid Salamanders.†   (source)
  • After I'd eaten, stolidly, I gathered the week's accumulation of newspapers on and around my bed and rolled them up and put them in the trash basket; retrieved from the cupboard my bleach-rotted shirt and—after checking to see the bag was tied tight—slipped it into another bag from the Asian market (leaving it open, for carrying ease, also in case I happened to spot a helpful brick).†   (source)
  • Streams flowed down the mountains from stolid glaciers and glistening snowpacks.†   (source)
  • He has an utterly calm, stolid presence.†   (source)
  • Now it seems stolid and drab, an architectural relic of the Nixon era.†   (source)
  • Annie tumbled Bossie in, then stolidly began refilling the hole, a job she hadn't finished until long after dark.†   (source)
  • I'm stolid.†   (source)
  • The accused man sat so rigorously in his chair, so unmovable and stolid.†   (source)
  • Those on either side had the tough, stolid look of members of the Owslafa.†   (source)
  • On its edge a collection of sailors and dockyard workers watched his ship sail in stolid Russian fashion, without a wave or a cheer.†   (source)
  • Still, there was something about the girl that reminded him of Clara, who had chosen a stolid horse trader when she decided to marry.†   (source)
  • But the craggy faces of the men of Khane looked as stolid as the cliffs outside the window, looming impassively in the setting sunlight.†   (source)
  • Havermeyer's stolid, dull face furrowed with consternation.†   (source)
  • IF THE BEATING HEART is pure theater, a playful, moody, extroverted organ cavorting in the chest, then the liver, sitting under the diaphragm, is a figurative painting, stolid and silent.†   (source)
  • I glanced over to where her mother sat, stolid, eating.†   (source)
  • I stood beneath his photograph with my brief case in hand and smiled triumphantly into his stolid black peasant's face.†   (source)
  • A proud, stolid man with a prominent nose and large, sad eyes, Lord Richard Howe was fifty-five years old, older than Adams judged him.†   (source)
  • The stolid shedu glanced doubtfully at one another, but at last the massive doors opened.†   (source)
  • No. There was a kind of faint convulsion in the stolid face.†   (source)
  • Then I looked to my left and saw, upriver, the white battlements and parapets of Carolina Military Institute, as stolid and immovable in reality as in memory.†   (source)
  • She wasn't as tall as the officer but her presence was remarkably severe and stolid and it didn't seem as though she were yielding any room.†   (source)
  • Alessandro watched the stolid forms of the buildings and trees take new life at the behest of the music.†   (source)
  • Rosser salutes, his face stolid.†   (source)
  • They were constitutionally different, it was obvious now, Kit having more of Alan's stolidity — Ruby would call it bourgeois — but in any case Kit was tired of the spirals, was exhausted by the deep cleaning Ruby tried to do every time they talked.†   (source)
  • A four-story private school for girls stood directly across the side street—a stolid and rather aloofly anonymous-looking building that rarely came alive till about three-thirty in the afternoon, when public-school children from Third and Second Avenues came to play jacks or stoop-ball on its stone steps.†   (source)
  • The Grzemkowski presence reverts to stolid business, the voice becomes police-gruff.†   (source)
  • ANNIE waits a stolid moment, then lowers HELEN'S hand.†   (source)
  • Barney Google was a comic strip character and Sparkplug was his racehorse, a stolid square-cut hay burner to whom Barney was devoted.†   (source)
  • Behind George, Will grew along, dumpy and stolid.†   (source)
  • The graduates had to walk three blocks in the hot sun in their black wool robes and as she plodded stolidly along she thought that if anyone considered this academic procession something impressive to behold, they need only wait until they saw that old General in his courageous gray and that clean young Boy Scout stoutly wheeling his chair across the stage with the sunlight catching the sword.†   (source)
  • Puli, seemingly unaware, continued eating stolidly.†   (source)
  • There is a lot of stolid, earthy peasant in him, mixed with streaks of sentimental melancholy and rare flashes of intuitive sensibility.†   (source)
  • This, indeed, in her silent, stolid fashion, she seemed to know: where, it might be, other women held as their very charrn and secret the joy that they could give and share, she contained only the shame that she had borne? shame, unless a miracle of human love delivered her, was all she had to give.†   (source)
  • ROPER (Stolidly) I haven't come for breakfast, sir.†   (source)
  • The stolidity of the German woman underwent a sudden change.   (source)
    stolidity = state of not showing emotion
  • Blore went on stolidly: "If you're speaking the truth-there's only one thing to be done."   (source)
    stolidly = unemotionally
  • The men walking in front and the laden, stolid women following them like burros.   (source)
    stolid = unemotional
  • Maine went stolidly on with his list.   (source)
    stolidly = unemotionally
  • Now Tom shivered from head to heel; for his eye fell upon the stolid face of Injun Joe.   (source)
    stolid = showing little emotion
  • After a long wait the jury filed in and took their places; shortly afterward, Potter, pale and haggard, timid and hopeless, was brought in, with chains upon him, and seated where all the curious eyes could stare at him; no less conspicuous was Injun Joe, stolid as ever.   (source)
    stolid = unemotional
  • The gunslinger walked stolidly, not hurrying, not loafing.†   (source)
  • Carrie stood among them stolidly, a frog among swans.†   (source)
  • Momma had opened the door and walked stolidly in.†   (source)
  • Surprising how much like a small, begging child she makes me feel, simply by her scowl, her stolidity; how importunate and whiny.†   (source)
  • And when I tried to have Mary meet my gaze, so that I might show at least one momentary glimpse of what I could offer, she patently refused, sitting stolidly behind her shading sunglasses, her wide, thin mouth set with weariness and rigor.†   (source)
  • There was a stolidity about him.†   (source)
  • Two times then Eragon recited their names, yet the stone remained as stolid and unchanging as ever.†   (source)
  • Grey Worm, smooth-cheeked, stolid, expressionless.†   (source)
  • It was the stolid Mr. Ward who screamed, "Oh God, no!†   (source)
  • He was a man in his fifties, with a square, stolid face.†   (source)
  • The family buttons were to buttons as rubber overshoes were to footgear — stolid, practical buttons, for overcoats and overalls and work shirts, with something robust and even crude about them.†   (source)
  • He lay in bed, listening to the creaking boards which marked tier heavy, stolid passage, listening as she poured the water (out of her bucket , and, incredibly, the sound of the faucet as she drew more.†   (source)
  • Othell Yarwyck was as stolid and unimaginative as he was taciturn, and the First Rangers seemed to die as quick as they were named.†   (source)
  • I follow the curve around the Parliament Building with its form of a squatting Victorian dowager, darkish pink, skirts huffed out, stolid.†   (source)
  • Ser Kevan had always been solid, stolid, pragmatic; he had never heard him speak with such fervor before.†   (source)
  • For two hours, Roran watched the opposing sides face each other-the agitated lanterns milling helplessly against the stolid torches.†   (source)
  • "A year ago Robert was king, and the realm was at peace," declared Jarman Buckwell, the square stolid man who commanded the scouts.†   (source)
  • Colonel Scheisskopf, squinting, moved very close to the map, and for the first time since he entered the room a light of comprehension shed a dim glow over his stolid face.†   (source)
  • Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on--she had often felt like pinching Bob for being so stolid.†   (source)
  • He returned with a heavy, stolid Owsla sentry named Ragwort, who at first had some difficulty in understanding what it was that the General wanted to know.†   (source)
  • Just as I got inside the door a stolid-faced man gripped me by the arm and looked stonily into my eyes.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger stood with stolid indifference, only peripherally aware of the faltering piano, the slowing of the card game, the sidelong glances of the barflies.†   (source)
  • Their faces were noncommittal, stolid.†   (source)
  • The sellsword was nearly as bad a player as the Yunkish lord had been, but his play was stolid and tenacious rather than bold.†   (source)
  • He's very stolid.†   (source)
  • I should have understood the corporal's strange behavior to be an alarm—for example, he had placed among the photographs of his elders in the small shrine next to his bed several of the newly traded pictures, and actually cut out certain lurid forms and applied them in a most dishonoring fashion beside the portraits of his stolid-faced grandparents.†   (source)
  • It was the stolid-faced man.†   (source)
  • For it is the vulnerability of people that has long haunted me: the mortality and fragility, of the like I witnessed performing my duties in the war, which never ceased to alarm, but also the surprisingly subject condition of even the most stolid of men's wills during wartime, the inhuman capacities to which they are helplessly given if they have but ears to hear and eyes to see.†   (source)
  • The owner turned impassively to fill her order; there was, in his stolid indifference, the kind of mercifulness that asks no questions.†   (source)
  • He had the square, stolid, stubborn face of a tough freight engineer, rather than a company president; the face of a fighter, with a young, tanned skin and graying hair.†   (source)
  • There at the head of the platform with its pulpit and rail of polished brass are the banked and pyramided heads of the student choir, faces composed and stolid above uniforms of black and white; and above them, stretching to the ceiling, the organ pipes looming, a gothic hierarchy of dull gilded gold.†   (source)
  • The crowd moved outside, where loudly and profanely they attacked the stolid immovability of a system run amuck.†   (source)
  • Something about their manner—perhaps it was only the stolid, stony communion of their silence—told her that they were members of the Resistance.†   (source)
  • So do I. NORFOLK (Stolid) Yes?†   (source)
  • Night came on and still Esteban stolidly waited and watched and worked.†   (source)
  • Bigger sat stolidly, trying not to let the crowd detect any fear in him.†   (source)
  • Eliza sat stolidly, hands folded, before the parlor fire.†   (source)
  • Of course, the proprietor of the opium-den denied everything with Oriental stolidity.†   (source)
  • In front of a small dingy-looking shop with its shutters now closed stood a harassed-looking young policeman who was stolidly adjuring the crowd to "pass along there."†   (source)
  • Eliza came through stolidly to victory.†   (source)
  • The ambulance men hurrying here and there among the prostrate forms frequently stepped on wounded men, so thickly packed were the rows, and those trodden upon stared stolidly up, waiting their turn.†   (source)
  • We begin to forget, as we go stolidly balancing along, that there could have been a time when we were young bodies flaming with the impetus of life.†   (source)
  • In the winter they had worked and been silent, enduring stolidly the snow and ice under their bare, straw-sandalled feet, going back at dark to their huts and eating without words such food as the day's labor and begging had brought, falling heavily to sleep, men, women and children, together, to gain that for their bodies which the food was too poor and too scanty to give.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Morgan rocked away stolidly.†   (source)
  • MRS. PEARCE [stolidly] That's what I mean, sir.†   (source)
  • Grey Beaver looked on stolidly while the white man wielded the whip.†   (source)
  • [Bilton stolidly hands him the empty box].†   (source)
  • Jurgis took it stolidly—he had made up his mind to it by this time.†   (source)
  • Sitting stolidly at the head of the table I became terrified at the sight of the garment on his arm.†   (source)
  • He stolidly moved to the back of the car, thrust in his hand, muttered, "Good night—Carol.†   (source)
  • "I want—some—more whisky," said Jude stolidly.†   (source)
  • The giant strode stolidly forward to the table.†   (source)
  • Her defiance ran out in face of his immense flaxen stolidity.†   (source)
  • "The Lord help him!" said Joseph, for once moved out of his stolidity.†   (source)
  • Smerdyakov was stolidly silent for a while.†   (source)
  • After a time she left rattling avenues and passed between rows of houses with sternness and stolidity stamped upon their features.†   (source)
  • Was it possible that this stolidly respectable person was of the same blood as one of the most notorious criminals in the country?†   (source)
  • Ned Winsett had those flashes of penetration; they were the most interesting thing about him, and always made Archer wonder why they had allowed him to accept failure so stolidly at an age when most men are still struggling.†   (source)
  • Beside the drug clerk she walked in silence, but sometimes in the darkness as they went stolidly along she put out her hand and touched softly the folds of his coat.†   (source)
  • But Babbitt glared stolidly.†   (source)
  • He dropped into a chair and sat looking stolidly at the floor, his hands hanging loosely between his knees, the handkerchief lying across his striped leg.†   (source)
  • "Do you mean to say," said Sloane stolidly, "that 'cause you had some sort of indigestion that made you act like a maniac last night, you're never coming on Broadway again?"†   (source)
  • And because of his grayness, solidity, stolidity, as well as an odd habit he had of blinking his eyes, Roberta was not a little overawed, though by no means so unfavorably impressed as she had feared she might be.†   (source)
  • Others began to walk stolidly off.†   (source)
  • Stolidly the sergeant obeyed: he went up to the charcoal fire and lit the small lantern he carried in his belt; it was evident that the hut was quite empty.†   (source)
  • Those who had been waiting before him, but farther away, now drew near, and by a certain stolidity of demeanor, no words being spoken, indicated that they were first.†   (source)
  • A stout gentleman, with pompous and philanthropic whiskers, went stolidly by, the broad of his back sneering at the girl.†   (source)
  • The poor devils of engineers had to get the ship along anyhow, and they could very well do the rest too; by gosh they—'Shut up!' growled the German stolidly.†   (source)
  • All the way home from the station with her he was adequate in his accounts of Ted's success in basket-ball at the university, but before they reached Floral Heights there was nothing more to say, and already he felt the force of her stolidity, wondered whether he could remain a good husband and still sneak out of the house this evening for half an hour with the Bunch.†   (source)
  • The man ate stolidly some mess which had been stewing in a sauce-pan against his coming; he stared at his plate; his wife looked at him two or three times, with little startled glances, and then quite silently began to cry.†   (source)
  • He did not stand stolidly baring his furry belly to the missile, and die with an upward glance at the sympathetic heavens.†   (source)
  • He had wanted her to see a physician, but she had refused, and all the while she was stolidly terrified by the fear that she had cancer of the stomach.†   (source)
  • With the stolidity and indifference of despair, however, he endured it all, sleeping in an attic at the roof of the house, eating what the cook gave him, accepting a few dollars a week, which he tried to save.†   (source)
  • "I do think father might get the beer for them," muttered Sally, as Jemima, stolidly and without further comment, took a couple of foam-crowned jugs from the shelf, and began filling a number of pewter tankards with some of that home-brewed ale for which "The Fisherman's Rest" had been famous since that days of King Charles.†   (source)
  • Gulden backed away stolidly, apparently dazed by his own movements; then he plunged out the door, and the ruffians who had given silent but sure expression of their loyalty tramped after him.†   (source)
  • Often Martin returned to his patients at night, but once or twice Mrs. Lanyon and he fled, as much from the family stolidity of the Twyfords as from the thought of fever-scorched patients, to the shore of a rocky lagoon which cut far in from the sea.†   (source)
  • While he was talking to me in the wretched hovel, and, as it were, fighting for every minute of his life, the Siamese woman, with big bare legs and a stupid coarse face, sat in a dark corner chewing betel stolidly.†   (source)
  • At last, after more than an hour of this incredible stolidity to the boom of gun and the fall of their numbers, the resting buffalo got up, and they all moved round uneasily, uncertainly.†   (source)
  • And his attention was constantly wandering: there were fruit trees trained on the walls of the vicarage, and a long twig beat now and then against the windowpane; sheep grazed stolidly in the field beyond the garden.†   (source)
  • Broad-browed and strong-chinned, with a fineness in the honest gray eyes that were like Kerry's, Burne was a man who gave an immediate impression of bigness and security—stubborn, that was evident, but his stubbornness wore no stolidity, and when he had talked for five minutes Amory knew that this keen enthusiasm had in it no quality of dilettantism.†   (source)
  • When the sheep had been penned up, in the darkness the timorous wolves crept into the living-room, squealing, halting, thrown out of their habit of stolidity by the strangeness of advancing through nothingness toward a waiting foe, a mysterious foe which expanded and grew more menacing.†   (source)
  • It proved that what he wanted was a house exactly like Sam Clark's, which was exactly like every third new house in every town in the country: a square, yellow stolidity with immaculate clapboards, a broad screened porch, tidy grass-plots, and concrete walks; a house resembling the mind of a merchant who votes the party ticket straight and goes to church once a month and owns a good car.†   (source)
  • "Well," the orator began again stolidly and with even increased dignity, after waiting for the laughter in the room to subside.†   (source)
  • Mr Flintwinch, who had spun backward some two or three yards under the impetus last given to him, brought himself up with a face completely unchanged in its stolidity except as it was affected by shortness of breath, and looked hard at Arthur.†   (source)
  • A traditional pastime is to be distinguished from a mere revival in no more striking feature than in this, that while in the revival all is excitement and fervour, the survival is carried on with a stolidity and absence of stir which sets one wondering why a thing that is done so perfunctorily should be kept up at all.†   (source)
  • The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind, that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him,—as it were, to operate upon,—and he would drag me up from my stool (usually by the collar) where I was quiet in a corner, and, putting me before the fire as if I were going to be cooked, would begin by saying, "Now, Mum, here is this boy!†   (source)
  • "I've been waiting for you for the last hour, Krassotkin," said Smurov stolidly, and the boys strode towards the market-place.†   (source)
  • Yet was this half-horrible stolidity in him, involving, too, as it appeared, an all-ramifying heartlessness;—yet was it oddly dashed at times, with an old, crutch-like, antediluvian, wheezing humorousness, not unstreaked now and then with a certain grizzled wittiness; such as might have served to pass the time during the midnight watch on the bearded forecastle of Noah's ark.†   (source)
  • 'What seems a cruel thing?' inquired Ralph, with as much stolidity of face, as if he really were in utter ignorance of the other's meaning.†   (source)
  • I must except, however, the little recruit into the Infant Bonds of Joy, who was stolidly and evenly miserable.†   (source)
  • Then for a moment the face of the applicant lost its stolidity; the lustreless, staring eyes dropped.†   (source)
  • Ahab stolidly turned aside; then said to Mayhew, "Captain, I have just bethought me of my letter-bag; there is a letter for one of thy officers, if I mistake not.†   (source)
  • Henchard saw this, and concealed his feelings under a cover of stolidity, fortifying his heart by drinking more freely at the Three Mariners every evening.†   (source)
  • As often as Mr Blandois clinked glasses (which was at every replenishment), Mr Flintwinch stolidly did his part of the clinking, and would have stolidly done his companion's part of the wine as well as his own: being, except in the article of palate, a mere cask.†   (source)
  • "A black nose, that means he'll be fierce, a good house-dog," Kolya observed gravely and stolidly, as if the only thing he cared about was the puppy and its black nose.†   (source)
  • For nothing was this man more remarkable, than for a certain impersonal stolidity as it were; impersonal, I say; for it so shaded off into the surrounding infinite of things, that it seemed one with the general stolidity discernible in the whole visible world; which while pauselessly active in uncounted modes, still eternally holds its peace, and ignores you, though you dig foundations for cathedrals.†   (source)
  • My shyness and gaucherie became worse, too, making me stolid and dumb when people came to the house.†   (source)
  • Shall I get up and say to twelve stolid Cornishmen thatI , Hercule Poirot,know ?†   (source)
  • He still sat, stolid and rocklike, his shirt a white blur in the door's black yawn.†   (source)
  • A tug on the other side pecked spryly at a stolid barge.†   (source)
  • He was normal again, stolid, dull, not the fey excited creature of the past few weeks.†   (source)
  • It was never funny to them and they suffered the eternal pleasantries with stolid patience.†   (source)
  • Eliza got up and marched out of the room with a stolid face.†   (source)
  • The outbreak came three nights before his departure as he stood, tense and stolid, in the parlor.†   (source)
  • Without turning, stolid Van Yeats threw up his hand impatiently and greeted the unseen with a cheer.†   (source)
  • Gaheris was a stolid child.†   (source)
  • I saw that happen: the stolid, square-framed Dr. Wernick, whose compact forearms could have held off a bear, painfully careful with her, determined, concerned at her choked screams, and enduring her scratches.†   (source)
  • She spent so much time crouching in the cellar that the girls would have fared badly but for Mrs. Meade's stolid old Betsy.†   (source)
  • Then O-lan came forward in her stolid fashion and she picked up the meat and washed it off with a little water and thrust it back into the boiling pot.†   (source)
  • Not once in the course of the night did he counter the enemy's attacks by restless agitation; only with all his stolid bulk, with silence, did he carry on the fight.†   (source)
  • The utter exhaustion which only a neurasthenic personality can know is evident in Blanche's voice and manner, Mitch is stolid but depressed.†   (source)
  • The saloonkeeper looked at him with a flat, heavy glance, a glance that showed full consciousness of agony, of injustice—and a stolid, bovine indifference.†   (source)
  • He looked at her and then at the man, heavy and stolid, moving off through the trees toward the corral.†   (source)
  • Toohey saw buttons and blue cloth tight over a broad chest, a stolid face, hard and patient; a man as set and dependable as the buildings around them.†   (source)
  • In lifeless squares and avenues these tawdry idols lorded it under the lowering sky; stolid monsters that might have personified the rule of immobility imposed on us, or, anyhow, its final aspect, that of a defunct city in which plague, stone, and darkness had effectively silenced every voice.†   (source)
  • He had but to prolong the wink of his eyes a moment longer and the horrible scenes of that hour flared across his eyelids as on a screen-The ghastly flickering of stolid gastanks, cobbles, trenches, distance, the malevolent streets, the black arc of the whip still lingering in air though the whip had landed, the vicious face contorted, and the hand, the hand uplifted.†   (source)
  • Wang Lung, watching her move steadily and slowly about the rooms on her big feet, watching secretly the stolid, square face, the unexpressed, half-fearful look of her eyes, made nothing of her.†   (source)
  • When told of some unlooked-for recovery, they made a show of interest, but actually received the news with the stolid indifference that we may imagine the fighting man in a great war to feel who, worn out by the incessant strain and mindful only of the duties daily assigned to him, has ceased even to hope for the decisive battle or the buglecall of armistice.†   (source)
  • She tried somehow to reach the dark gropings toward light and articulation, of the blunt, the stolid, the shamefast.†   (source)
  • Gulden, huge, stolid, gloomy, was entering the cabin.†   (source)
  • In another direction, across the canyon, she saw cattle, gaunt, ragged, lumbering, and stolid.†   (source)
  • I had no mind to laugh, and lest I should smile I made for myself a stolid face.†   (source)
  • But so few of these stolid worlds wanted to be moved.†   (source)
  • It seemed impossible that Mrs. Fox should endure his stolid persistence.†   (source)
  • The stolid trees, where much had taken place, seemed incredibly near.†   (source)
  • Babbitt admired their stolid good temper.†   (source)
  • The captain remained stolid and determined.†   (source)
  • Among some stolid trees it began to falter and hesitate.†   (source)
  • The face of Sondelius changed from curiosity to stolid Scandinavian wrath.†   (source)
  • The regiment fell back to the stolid trees.†   (source)
  • The guns, stolid and undaunted, spoke with dogged valor.†   (source)
  • People who expressed themselves roughly called her stolid.†   (source)
  • The half-mile stood now before the sick and weary woman like a stolid Juggernaut.†   (source)
  • His dark-faced wife sat beside him, stolid, silent.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bucket compares the faces with one eye shut up, while Mr. Bagnet smokes in stolid satisfaction.†   (source)
  • "Emigrants have no rights, Evremonde," was the stolid reply.†   (source)
  • "Beside her mother," said Henchard, in the same stolid tones.†   (source)
  • For a moment the face of the stolid Nazarene was moved; turning away, he said, "The child is here."†   (source)
  • The two merchants looked respectable, but were strangely silent and stolid.†   (source)
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