Both Uses of
stolid
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Was it possible that this stolidly respectable person was of the same blood as one of the most notorious criminals in the country?†
Chpt 9 *
- You and I know that he died of sheer fright, and we know also what frightened him; but how are we to get twelve stolid jurymen to know it?†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(stolid) having or revealing little emotion -- sometimes indicating qualities of not changing or being dependable
or (much more rarely):
of an object: not interesting -- often large and unmoving