Here he achieves staidness, and calmness, and philosophic tolerance. From Wordnik.com. [Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang] Reference
On its face it is a full-length JRPG, a genre famous for its staidness and adherence to formula, and yet it innovates in every single game mechanic. From Wordnik.com. [The World Ends With You - Dust Forms Words Game Of The Year 2008] Reference
And, contrary to the staidness implied by my missive of the German brewing industry we saw that it was the Germans, not the Americans, that were most divergent from "style". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
When you read a blog chances are that it's much more current, much more opinionated, much more graphic, much more colourful, than the staidness of a book, no matter the topic. From Wordnik.com. ["The king of content-free reading, the Ur-blogger."] Reference
He was dignity, staidness, correctness personified. From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories] Reference
A staidness, and calmness, and philosophic tolerance. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of Kind] Reference
I never had the staidness or dignity necessary for a leader. From Wordnik.com. [Apologia Pro Vita Sua] Reference
The trouble with these weekly columns isn't their staidness. From Wordnik.com. [UGO.com - Latest Stories] Reference
On the whole the staidness of the courtship was pleasing to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Miller Of Old Church] Reference
To-night Honor walked upstairs with unwonted staidness and gravity. From Wordnik.com. [The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life] Reference
He achieved a staidness, and calmness, and philosophical tolerance. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of Kind] Reference
They have that phlegm or staidness, which it is a compliment to disturb. From Wordnik.com. [English Traits (1856)] Reference
It was partly for his delightful youthfulness that I feared my maturity and staidness. From Wordnik.com. [The Rosary] Reference
'Very merry, full of fun, but with a thoughtful staidness in her highest spirits, even as a girl. From Wordnik.com. [Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife] Reference
Thee won't believe it, because thee will think I lack the calmness and staidness that fit me for it. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter] Reference
Oriental and Roman fictions there is a certain staidness, a measured step, from which he never departs. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter] Reference
The three girls ran to the door in a tumultuous greeting, even Jemima losing her staidness for the occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference
But is this very staidness that so appeals to Gideon Rachman and all the other representatives of the status quo. From Wordnik.com. [Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day] Reference
The children had a nurse, Meysie Dickson, a girl who was already a woman in staidness and steadfastness at fifteen. From Wordnik.com. [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference
Marguerite the lace-maker had not matched St. Lucy in purity, St. Agatha in constancy, and St. Catherine in staidness. From Wordnik.com. [The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche 1909] Reference
A certain staidness and sobriety, a certain moderation and restraint, a certain pressure of circumstances, are good for man. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
I take a sort of pride in recording a staidness in the observance which I believe to be peculiar to the countryside in which I live. From Wordnik.com. [In a Green Shade A Country Commentary] Reference
He knew that to try to recast Peter's tremendous energy into staidness and caution would only rob him of what was best in his nature. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Friendships of Jesus] Reference
She was still herself, put in a position where -- as she had the wit to see -- staidness was the natural thing; therefore staid she was. From Wordnik.com. [The Fool Errant] Reference
As to Antipas, her faithful servitor, he had relapsed again into his old staidness and sobriety in the comparative quietude of the prison. From Wordnik.com. [Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem] Reference
Hilo the next day in time for morning service, and the mare, after a good gallop, subsided into a staidness of demeanour befitting the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Then, drunk I'll get to-night, my pretty dear! the man muttered, soured by her inopportune staidness, as an opponent's bruisings could never have rendered him. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
She pursued the woman Warwick unmercifully through a series of interviews with her decorous and crudely-minded defenders; accurately perusing them behind their senior staidness. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
A good gallop, subsided into a staidness of demeanour befitting the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
The staidness of these things to man! for these. From Wordnik.com. [MAN « Unknowing] Reference
Of the staidness and reserve. From Wordnik.com. [Dramatic Romances] Reference
The staidness of these things to Man!. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Sacred Song] Reference
Lord Mountclere’s staidness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference
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