After all it is a relief to meet Irish people when one has spent a week or two in stolid England.
If Miss Maliphant were to hear of this evening's adventure, she is headstrong, stolid enough, to mark out a line for herself and fling him aside without waiting for judge or jury.
With another of those remarkable flashes of genius, it also occurred to me that I should be devilish lonely with only Pottinger here," he jerked his head towards the groom, who sat in damp and stolid silence behind.
But in his stature there was nothing of the cumbrous bulk and stolid heaviness, which often destroy the beauty of vast strength.
I am that thou mightest as well compare the hat on thy brow to the brain it hides as liken the stolid Dorcis to the fiery but profound Heracleid.
As by a flash Dyer, the scaler, leered insolently from behind the Indian's stolid mask.
At first the Indian's stolid countenance seemed a trifle doubtful.
The stolid gloomy man of lower six seemed to intend sitting up all night.
But there was not much time to lose, and even the less interested parties to the transgression had a stolid determination to stand by their comrade.
As for the dismal hacks who sometimes call themselves journalists, I cannot grow angry with them; but they do test the patience of the most stolid of men.
Matters have reached a strange pass when such a political watchword should be chosen by thousands in grave and stolid England, and we shall be obliged to compromise in the end with those by whom the cry is raised.
But when all ordinary warnings of danger proved unavailable, she burst into speech and opened the eyes of herstolid master.
In a mood of stolid and sullen resignation, I was about to take my accustomed place on the raft when my uncle placed his hand upon my shoulder.
Those fearful dangers and perils of which the stolid guide had no idea, I would have pointed them out to him--I would have, as it were, made him see and feel.
The Prior and his fellows on the dais made not a single motion; and save for an excited swaying and whispering, the monks sat stolid on their benches, either too frightened to flee or too indifferent to the Abbot's safety to care to aid him.
He was phlegmatic, stolid to such a degree that one could not but wonder how the Revolution had any meaning to him at all.
The Chief Constable with his back to the wall, even without a firearm in his stolid fist, is a very considerable figure of a man who will not brook nonsense from anybody.
His gaze was travelling constantly to meet that of his two companions, stolid men who yet were at a loss to conceal their uneasiness.
I deny every word of it," he answered--with a stolid defiance of tone and manner.
His irritation had had time to subside; the stolid indifference had got possession of him again.
Asked if any thing had happened in the night, she slowly shook her stolid head, slowly made the sign with her hand which signified, "Nothing.
Stolid indifference expressed itself in his lowering brow and his loosely-hanging mouth.
You had better tell the servant I am no stranger to you," said Anne, looking toward the kitchen-maid, who stood in the passage staring at her in stolid amazement.
The others stared at her with the stoliddignity of their race.
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