It had a certain Dutch stolidity in its manner of calmly and bumpily surmounting such portions of the landscape as happened in its way. From Wordnik.com. [African Camp Fires] Reference
She paused, waiting for some acknowledgment of his interest, but not getting it, went on bitterly enough, for his stolidity was a very great mystery to her. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Hollow] Reference
These frontier towns inured to the clash of war go about their business with what one might call stolidity if there were not finer, and truer, names for it. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort] Reference
I think this arose not more from its immensity than from the kind of stolidity to which I have alluded. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
Her stolidity was a very useful pose. From Wordnik.com. [The Guests Of Hercules] Reference
For once she was swayed from her stillness and stolidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
"Why not?" he asked, with a touch of ancestral stolidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
Her defiance ran out in face of his immense flaxen stolidity. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Syme received the remark with stolidity, imagining it to be a joke. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference
He admired the stolidity of that sandy-haired young man's countenance. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
I was glad to perceive that he began to admit my wisdom and his stolidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
That seemed to be about as much as the prospect could move Rufus 'stolidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
All his stolidity seemed gone now; he was trembling too, his lips silently moving. From Wordnik.com. [Green Mansions] Reference
He had besides, the stolidity of the German, and their cool calculating practicalism. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
He glanced at Harper, taking comfort from the apparent stolidity of the huge Irishman. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
She neither returned his smile nor changed her expression, unchildlike in its stolidity. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
Something in the atmosphere of the room had penetrated even the brick wall of her stolidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
Why should they take pride in their reputed stolidity rather than in their actual cleverness. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
It was a peculiar sort of stolidity on the part of Mr. Shanks, for which she was utterly unprepared. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
There is a constant play of quick, nervous movements underneath their outer show of calmness and stolidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
"Do I understand, mum," he asked, with a droll stolidity, "that you're satisfied with the prisoner's story?". From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
Borden had the ethical stolidity of Asquith without the latter's personal weaknesses or his powers of oratory. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
The entrance of Bicket into a room where his last appearance had been so painful, was accomplished with a certain stolidity. From Wordnik.com. [The White Monkey] Reference
Somehow, this stolidity and inappreciation of the peril the girl had so recently escaped, made Hiram feel sudden indignation. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
The boy had none of the half-stupid stolidity of the country-bred, and yet lacked something of the garrulity of the cute street lad. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Great in your stolidity and solidity, before which I, who know what lives beneath them, can only bow in a fluttering, butterfly respect!. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
They both remained almost motionless as they gazed at it; until the restless Dr Flood seemed to grow quite impatient with their stolidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
This was one of the moments when Hornblower was most in need of an appearance of stolidity while finding the greatest difficulty in attaining it. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Crisis]
Syme, at a crisis of his morbid fears for humanity, seemed stung by the mere stolidity of the automatic official, a mere bulk of blue in the twilight. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference
In her rather guttural but pleasant voice she answered all our questions — not very far from tears, I think, but saved by native stolidity, and perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays] Reference
"The problem of 'kinship liability,' as I called it, began not after 1945, but was always there, and had to be met with skill and — on occasion — with stolidity.". From Wordnik.com. [Panzer Aces]
McSporran received the news with his customary stolidity, only his gray eyes twinkled and he chuntered something that was totally unintelligible to anyone save himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
Instead of the staid dignity and stolidity of a general, I saw an almost schoolboyish nimbleness; instead of a collar sticking up to his ears, an ordinary light blue necktie. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife] Reference
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