He has a very stolid character and never gets excited, no matter what happens.    From LearnThat.org. 

She stared at him in stolid wonder, but her only reply was to hold the door wider and say: "Come in an 'set wun't ye?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery at Number Six] Reference

Ned had come to call the stolid German servant, was not present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record] Reference

The word literally means coarse or thick, and may suggest the idea of stolid insensibility as the last stage in the downward progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference

Then there was a kind of stolid march to the polls under duress.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2005] Reference

In LA, that kind of stolid, upright, Mid-Western gallop will never do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keep cool.] Reference

It was a kind of stolid, ideological, off there-ness that I wanted nothing to do with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire] Reference

Tom gulped slightly as he read this and his eyes glistened, but he read on with a kind of stolid indifference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Slade with the Colors] Reference

Her eyes opened, and she looked up with a stolid gaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

The market-lagging GICs are starting to show their stolid stripes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chip Shots] Reference

Some folks yahooed, others cried, but most people just looked stolid.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bagpiper's March To Ground Zero] Reference

The faint eyes looked solemnly in the healthy, stolid face above her.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

There are farmers who prosper in their calling, and do not become stolid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

The Swedes founded Delaware, and New York was created by the stolid Dutch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference

The mood at the meeting, at which all information was off the record, was stolid and calm.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Guard] Reference

My eyes widen at the coincidence of plashing verticals and the stolid columns of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Truman Compote] Reference

The "near horse" of the Farnshaw team was a stolid and reliable mare, mother of many colts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

Al (+, -) The CW would like to thank you for your solid, stolid, faithful performance zzzzzz.    From Wordnik.com.  [100 Days Edition] Reference

This feeble joke was received in stolid silence, and the poor little wife crept into her shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Cook Husbands] Reference

Shannon Spann bounces her baby on a knee, coaxing a smile from the otherwise stolid 10-month-old.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Breed Of War Widow] Reference

The stolid resistance proved, in the end, to be too much either for its endurance or its patience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

Usually typecast in quiet, stolid parts, he showed everyone how many colors he had in his repertoire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catch Oscar If You Can] Reference

"He came better prepared and adjusted a lot more easily than me," says Ramon, a stolid contrast to Pedro.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hits Stop Here] Reference

But the truth of a vitally important fact soon makes its way into the understanding of even the most stolid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

Close by him stood the man who shared his horrid duties, gazing with a look of stolid indifference on the scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

Dmitry Yazov, the fallen defense minister, was a stolid soldier unlikely to have organized and directed the plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coup Makers' Secrets] Reference

"Oh, Mr. Maurice -- Captain Kilvert, sir!" he burst out, consternation in every line of his usually stolid countenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncanny Tales] Reference

There is not even stolid philosophy to come to our aid, a shrugging of the shoulders, a foisting of the blame on to fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

"Doubt" stirs up a lot of stormy theatrical weather, but the stolid transfer from stage to screen does Shanley's play no favors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doubt] Reference

  But this crass commercialization was more appropriate for capitalist Americans than the stolid citizens of the Soviet Republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remember Me to the Motherland] Reference

And so the role may fall to these sturdy, stolid, God-fearing Christians who are now stirring up a tempest in the nation's teapot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joan Z. Shore: A Cold Cup of Tea] Reference

"My dear little sister --" Doctor Hugh took her in his arms and the stolid Sarah clung to him crying as though her heart would break.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainbow Hill] Reference

The faces of the four Englishmen instantly assumed that peculiarly stolid expression always called forth by the mention of Shakespeare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncanny Tales] Reference

But after just two seasons at the helm, Lucchino's management team has already begun transforming one of baseball's most stolid franchises.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVERSING THE CURSE] Reference