All 6 Uses
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- 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.†
Chpt 3stolidly = unemotionally
- I had no mind to laugh, and lest I should smile I made for myself a stolid face.†
Chpt 8 *
- They got two hawsers on board promptly (en toute hale) and took the Patna in tow—stern foremost at that—which, under the circumstances, was not so foolish, since the rudder was too much out of the water to be of any great use for steering, and this manoeuvre eased the strain on the bulkhead, whose state, he expounded with stolid glibness, demanded the greatest care (exigeait les plus grands menagements).†
Chpt 12
- this is what I—you—I ..." he stammered, and then with a return of his old stolid, I may say mulish, manner he began heavily, "I would be a brute now if I ..." and then his voice seemed to break.†
Chpt 17
- 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.†
Chpt 37stolidly = unemotionally
- The stolid youth selected by Kassim for that service performed it faithfully, and was rewarded by being suddenly tipped, head first, into the schooner's empty hold by the ex-beachcomber and the Chinaman, who thereupon hastened to put on the hatches.†
Chpt 39
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)