Mrs. Cameron was a stolid, corpulent lady, with a countenance perpetually placid and an habitual aversion to displaying intellect.

Even the most stolid and apathetic soul relaxes a little.

He jerked his head toward where Narayan Singh sat stolid and sleepy- looking on a camp-stool with his curly black beard resting on the heel of one hand.

My clearest memory is of that Arabsilent, stolid, staring like an owl straight forward most of the timebut a perfect marvel in emergencies, when he would suddenly spring to life, swear a living streak of brimstone blasphemy in high falsetto, and perform a driver's miracle.

Mike, when masters waxed sarcastic toward him, always assumed an air of stolid stupidity, which was as a suit of mail against satire.

dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent.

" "Why," said Abner Jenks, a stolid plow boy to whom this stream of remark was addressed; "this 'ere place ain't mortgaged, is it?

Does Curtis understand that infernal thing?" Young Curtis, sulky and stolid on his driver's seat, stared at his new master.

Bobby noticed that the great stolid form of the doctor was ill at ease.

Even this was not sufficient to rouse the girl from her stolid calmness, and the valiant officer was, at last, obliged to retreat from the field of battle.

He explained to his men what it was that was expected of them, and though they did not raise a cry or wave their weapons as mine might have done, there was an expression upon their stolid and clean-shaven faces which filled me with confidence.

A kind-faced policeman pointed out a massive stone archway where she must enter, and passing here, beside a stolid soldier in his sentry box, she came presently to a black iron door in front of which were waiting two yellow-and-black prison vans, windowless.

The nature of the scenery is so strange and bizarre, as well as beautiful, that it would impress the most stolid and sophisticated as something quite out of the common.

In reality she was far from stolid and anything but sullen.

But the rate clerk was a stolid, a suspicious person, and he was gnawed by a low and common jealousy.

Grimshaw could fancy the excitementthe priest hurrying toward the "wall" with his crucifix in his hands; the barber, a-quiver with morbid excitement; the stolid guide, not at all surprised, rather gratified, preparing to make the descent to recover the body of that "tall monsieur" who had, after all, "arrived."

If the sternest foe of the Pilgrims across the water could have looked upon the exiles in their winter dreariness, hungry, wasted, dying, cowering beneath the accumulation of their woes, he might have regarded the scene as presenting but a reasonable retribution upon a stolid obstinacy in the most direful and needless self-inflictions.

It was an interesting, but touching and saddening sight to look upon the congregation; to wonder why they came, and whether they would come again, and whether under those stolid and hardened faces there yet lay humanity.

One was a strapping rosy-cheeked country girl, who did all the household work; the other an overgrown clumsy-looking girl, hired straight from the workhouse by Mr. Whitelaw, from economical motives; a stolid-looking girl, whose intellect was of the lowest order; a mere zoophyte girl, one would saysomething between the vegetable and animal creation.

He had lighted his pipe by this time, and was smoking and staring at the fire with his usual stolid airmeditative, it might be, or only ruminant, like one of his own cattle.

I might as well have appealed to the four walls of my room; the girl was utterly stolid.

Then he went out to the farm he had meant to buy, as I told you, and looked at it in the same stolid way.

He could not tell if the quiet on Holmes's face were stolid defiance or submission: the dumb kings might have looked thus beneath the feet of Pharaoh.

Such violence had been done to her stolid habits that she seemed to need the sight of her milk-room to restore her to intelligent action.

" The stolid man listened to this with marked approval.