He walked gingerly, so as not to awaken his wife, who was a great amateur of the siesta, and might issue suddenly from her apartment like a spider, but Manasseh stolidly thumped on the stairs with his staff.
My gentleman sailor seemed quite at home, swallowingstolidly as though at his own breakfast-table.
I shall not leave this chamber till I choose," said Manasseh, dropping stolidly into the nearest chair and folding his arms.
But his words seemed to take no effect on the Indian, who smoked on stolidly till it was evident that all this talk was to no purpose.
How," said Stephens, dismounting and looking straight at this Indian whom he took for the chief, but the latter gazed at him stolidly without taking any notice.
As for the other, Roberto, he strained stolidly along the line, using the strength that belonged to his master the patron just as matter-of-factly as he had used it since he was old enough to be called a man.
His mare, who had borne him stolidly for over five hours, was quite ready to give way; there was no Arab blood in her to cause her to go on until she dropped.
The congregation was assembling from different parts, and everybody who passed stared at us, the men stolidly enough, the women with a curiosity which, to my mind at least, had something antagonistic in its nature.
When she returned to Gwynne she found him sunning himself on the porch with his back to Mr. Clink, who stolidly regarded an old stump of geranium.
With panting chests and lolling tongues, they are pegging stolidly along, when fortune gives them this welcome chance.
The laird sat stolidlylooking on, saying never a word; and as he seemed to be nearing the confines of the hole, the poor digger redoubled his exertions.
Alan dismissed the Indian, who, stolidly methodical in the midst of these events, went down-stairs and commenced to prepare a dinner which Alan knew he could not eat.
Frank came to the surface and struck out for the boat, which was only a few strokes away, the crocodile following in his wake, the giant armor-plated body moving through the water stolidly and without visible means of motion.
He shouted to them to clear a path, but either from stupidity or from ignorance of aeroplanes they stood stolidly gazing upward, open mouthed, as the aeroplane rushed down.
The boys' meal was rather a public one, for the villagers seemed hypnotized by the sight of the sky boys, and gazed stolidly at them as they ate, as if there was something as wonderful in that as in their flights.
Hollister looked on the destruction of his timber most stolidly of all.
On the upper storey tramp the doomed cattle, stolidly for the most part.
Like the Punjabi, the Red Indian gets out by preference on the trackless plain and walksstolidly to the horizon.
The Englishmen look supremely bored, the native members stare stolidly in front of them.
Mr. Andrews watched them out of sight, and as they were lost among the trees in a turn of the road, he sighed and turned stolidly towards the house.
Seeing that their work was completed, the pirates ceased fire, the guns' crews standing with folded arms and stolidly watching the tramp as she struggled in her death-throes.
Three more, who were playing cards at a plain deal table, glanced up from their game as the British lads passed by; but their interest was of brief duration, and stolidly they resumed their play.
So he stolidly continued to smoke, staring idly before him with a gaze fixed and ruminating.
She was always stolidly indifferent, and her answer was invariably the same, "I do not care.
He went stolidly through his dinner and special coffee without making his presence known, and when at last he had finished, was careful not to be seen going towards the sanctum of Madame Lamotte.
In the hall an Inspector of Police stood stolidly regarding with heavy-lidded pale-blue eyes the fine old English furniture picked up by James at the famous Mavrojano sale in Portman Square.
The Dragon and the Duck and the other public-house at the top corner seemed as usual, stolidly confident in the thirst of populations.
He stolidly rose and fell with the plunges of his horse in all the indifference of a deacon's figure seated plumply in church.
The sentry stolidlyswung his carbine to his shoulder.
He sat stolidly on as if he were glued to his chair, smoking one cigarette after another.
Then, shouldering their belongings, the weather-bound travellers trudged stolidly up the hilly road.
In this hunched-up position he looked half asleep, while the horse, left to its own devices, walked stolidly along the centre of the highway.
The man plodded stolidlytowards the smith until he got within a couple of yards.
The now drenched soldier was trudging stolidly along; the smith was making heavy going, and showing visible signs of distress.
A weather-worn statue, poised stolidly upon a lofty pedestal, was fast resembling the time-honoured character of Father Christmas.
Butcherboy trotted home to his kennel at dawn, stolidly taking the whaling which McManus saw fit to administer.
Forgotten was King's stolidly loyal intent to lie on the chilly mat until Shawe should return.
And presently he had them back in the highway, in orderly alignment and walking stolidly homeward.
The other was a black-bearded giant, who followed stolidly in the wake of the younger man.
Despite Pete's urging, he stood stolidly until he had gathered enough ozone to propel him farther.
Then he padded stolidly to the shack and reappeared, bearing a purple velvet jacket which was ornamented with buttons made from silver quarters.
The old man was lashing himself into a white rage, while Thomas sat lookingstolidly before him, his slow tongue finding no words of defense.
At which Hughie and Billy Jack and Jessac laughed aloud, but Thomas and his father only looked stolidly into the fire.
He was no longer the awkward lout, stolidly working at uncongenial toil.
They soon reached the Hapgood door, around which still clustered a crowd of the neighbors, the men stolidly smoking, the women whispering in detached groups, all with that expectant air which attends upon a tragic incident.
The Pole turned to look at her, while he stood stolidly in the path, as close to the door as he could crowd, and his expression startled her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stolidly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: coldly; dispassionately; heavily; placidly; quietly; steadily
