Both Uses
stolid
in
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
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- After a time she left rattling avenues and passed between rows of houses with sternness and stolidity stamped upon their features.†
Chpt 16 *stolidity = lack of emotion
- A stout gentleman, with pompous and philanthropic whiskers, went stolidly by, the broad of his back sneering at the girl.†
Chpt 17stolidly = unemotionally
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)