I think this arose not more from its immensity than from the kind of stolidity to which I have alluded.
Those who had been waiting before him, but farther away, now drew near, and by a certain stolidity of demeanour, no words being spoken, indicated that they were first.
The endangered man answered his gaze with equal stolidity when the judge turned to him for his defence; but he remained speechless.
Ay, even the droll humour and stolidity of Khalid, are shaken, aroused, by the ghoulish greed, the fell inhumanity of these sharpers.
Anything more fixedly stolid than the Park Lover when he passes his arm round his chosen one and takes her crimson hand in his, I have never seen; unless, indeed, it be the fixed stolidity of the chosen one herself.
His manner, his indifference, his stolidity showed that she had not only killed his fancy for her at a stroke, but that he now disliked her.
She came near to hating him for hisstolidity and his silence.
Lord Thornaby stared at me with inscrutable stolidity as we shook hands, and at once handed me over to a tall, ungainly man whom he addressed as Ernest, but whose surname I never learned.
I had drawn my knees up to my chin, on the bench where one used to dry one's self after bathing, and there I sat in a seeming stolidity at utter variance with my inward temper.
In spite of their personal courage, the disciplined stolidity of the Germans is hardly adapted to this peculiar kind of sport.
The Chinaman was a peaceable fellow; but beneath his stolidity slumbered the fierce temper of his race.
Her stolidity was helpful, and she told the doctor's name and number.
Dull-eyed the woman looked at him with that sublimestolidity only achieved by born New Englanders.
Arcadian innocence and simplicity have developed, or rather degenerated, into indolence, stolidity and ignorance.
Southern supineness and Middle State stolidity were aroused and shaken out of themselves, when slavery no longer exerted its baleful influence over the country and the city.
To do less than this is to convict ourselves of stolidity or impotence.
But the woman, with that light noiseless step, that mutestolidity so characteristic of her race, had already glided to the door; and there was no need for her to answer, for already his own apprehensions had replied.
As they passed Jack they eyed him curiously, but with Spanish stolidity made no remarks.
They had something less than the usual stolidity of expression, looked fairly intelligent, and appeared likely to serve him well as special messengers.
Michael on his side was most anxious to conform to every prejudice of the Olympians, esteeming theirstolidity far above his own natural demeanour, envious too of their profoundly ordinary point of view and their commonplace expression of it.
Shan't," Stella answered with that cold and fat stolidity of demeanour and voice which disgusted Michael like the fat of cold mutton.
From the other side of the table, in their own particular corner of the back room at Devinsky's Place on the Upper East Side, Tim regarded his friend with characteristic stolidity and replied with a grunt of interrogatory interest.
A gasp from Patsy, another grunt from Tim, and the two of them seized the letter with a common impulse, Tim's stolidity shaken for once.
The terror we thus feel is a terror for the machinery of law, that we can hear tearing, in the dark, good and bad between its formidable wheels with the iron stolidity of all machinery, human or divine.
