Both Uses
stolid
in
Misery, by Stephen King
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- 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.†
Chpt 1
- Annie tumbled Bossie in, then stolidly began refilling the hole, a job she hadn't finished until long after dark.†
Chpt 3 *stolidly = 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)