All 5 Uses
stolid
in
The Thundering Herd
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- There was not the slightest doubt of Catlee's emergence from the character of a stolid dull teamster into something incalculably otherwise.†
Chpt 13 *
- She could not think of anything save the great, shaggy, stolid old bulls, and the sleeker smaller cows, and the tawny romping calves.†
Chpt 15
- The sun was somewhat hazed over, reducing the heat; a level prairie afforded smooth travel; the horses had settled down into steady stolid work.†
Chpt 15
- Others began to walk stolidly off.†
Chpt 17stolidly = unemotionally
- 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.†
Chpt 17stolidity = lack of emotion
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)