Gordon Niall as he stoically waited for death, knew very little about the facts of it all.
The heroic and dramatic effect of a piper stoically playing his way across the ghastly modern battlefield, altogether oblivious to danger, has an extraordinary effect on the spirit and enterprise of his comrades.
Mr. Blake sat staring stoically at the coals, making no comment whatever on anything he heard, even when Paul Wyndham made that pause, with a face full of tender pity and love.
RUTH comes into court, and takes her stand stoically in the witness-box.
Wrapping himself stoically in his rumpled feathers, the Sparrow hunches into a ball, now motionless, now twitching.
He lay stretched out, a tall, slender figure with a clear-cut patrician face, very pale and still but with every sign of suffering stoically repressed.
Grant, I saw once, after he was Lieutenant-General, on the platform of a railroad station submitting stoically to the compliments of a lively crowd of women.
So soon as he found himself in the presence of the hunters seated round the fire, he crossed his arms on his chest, raised his head haughtily, and waited stoically till they thought proper to address him.
The colonel stood stoically by his side, only asking him from time to time, ironically, how he liked his arguments, and if he would soon make up his mind to yield.
Then, as Gabriella turned quickly and left the room, Mrs. Fowler rose stoically to her feet, adjusted her belt with a tremulous movement of her hands, and smiled bravely as she went to the mirror to put on her hat.
For so long she had stoically put the thought of that past out of her life, that when she returned to it now, she found that only ashes remained.
But she only stood stoically by the bed for a moment and then, turning swiftly, went to the wall opposite and took down from the wall the walnut-framed photograph Mrs. Graves had commented on.
But he received no satisfaction from the Bullard girl, who, he reported, listened stoically and then said she was sorry, but she did not remember who had called.
Others, scorning to hang their hopes on desperate chances, waited stoically or reverently the summons to the tumbrels.
He turned stoically from the Marseillais to the judges, where, to his amazement, he perceived a movement of clemency toward the accused.
Nicole gave them but a casual glance; such of the inhabitants as the familiar fall of feet brought to the windows retired indifferently, the prisoners themselves stoically adding their resignation to the monotony of the scene.
I think I do appreciate your telling me the truth last night more than anything else that has ever happened to me; there was something so stoically splendid about it--and I don't want to abuse the confidence.
When Lafe, with useless legs, had been brought home to his wife, she had stoically taken up the burden that had been his.
And the round danced on, the old man smoking his pipestoically the while.
The poilus are waiting stoically for whatever may transpire.
And even when he felt that his mind was made up, and he was stoically determined to do that which was right, the rightful heir would keep upsetting his plans.
The guard, hearing shouts, rushed in and stoically bore away a limp, bloodstained bundle to the hospital.
And he talked stoically of the depletion of his ranks.
It was a silent mass, waiting, watch in hand, trying stoically to face down the suspense of the last awful minutes.
The troops stoically awaited the attack, which came simultaneously from the north, east and south.
They stoicallystood their ground, shaking their heads.
For some time they bumped along over the rough road, jostling against each other frequently, both enduring stoically and silently.
There had been a compelling appeal to the imagination in the thought of this band of Metropolitans from city streets, stoically holding their ground when surrounded by German veterans in a forest in France.
They accepted stoically this screaming tumult of destruction.
The captain observed him stoically from over his thick and black beard.
The captain pacedstoically up and down before the gate.
Greatrex or from Mr. Lancaster stoically enough, he couldn't watch the humble devotion of those two honest-hearted simple old servants without a mingled thrill of shame and tenderness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stoically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: coldly; dispassionately; heavily; patiently; placidly; quietly; steadily
