Both Mr. Merrick and Arthur Weldon were staring stolidly at the floor.

"Nothing disturbed, eh?" "Nothing!" replied the landlord stolidly.

Mershone denied the accusation; the bruiser denied it; the policeman and the driver of the patrol wagon likewise stolidly denied it.

With panting chests and lolling tongues, they are pegging stolidly along, when fortune gives them this welcome chance.

A dog ran up and down her decks barking, and a couple of squat figures leaned over the bulwarks gazing stolidly ashore.

From them she looked to the other side of the room, where Mrs. Kybird was stolidly eyeing Mrs. Kingdom, who was trying in vain to appear ignorant of the fact.

The boy, who looked about two feet in heightno moresang stolidly, with an unchanging countenance, and no expression in the black beads which were his eyes.

He came stolidly enough, leaving a trail of water on the deck, and, after changing into the dry things we gave him, fell to, but without much appearance of hunger, upon some salt beef and biscuits, regarding us between bites with black, lack-lustre eyes.

With this accomplished and when the herd was stolidly compacted before his driving, the black skirted around the whole group and with a magnificent spurt of running placed himself in the lead.

These proud Turks died stolidly, many of them.

Though she had not uttered one word to detain him, he had a strong conviction that his mistress wanted him, and so, stolidly, he remained beside her, his sharp little eyes flashing to and fro, sometimes watching the great waves riding in, sometimes following the curving flight of a sea-gull, sometimes fixed in immensely dignified contemplation upon the quivering tip of his nose.

He fills up the entire pavement, and stolidly plods on, turning ladies and all into the roadway; not from intentional rudeness, but from sheer inability to perceive that he is causing inconvenience.

Penned with the others in the brush field, he had done stolidly what his superiors demanded of him; and it presently came out that the only anxiety that assailed him was when, in the smoke of the tangled thickets, he missed his late master.

It seemed so futile to go on consuming stolidly and grimly the porridge of life, when one might take one's choice of its dainties!

Mr. Wiggett, a sharp-featured little man, was doing most of the talking, while his rival, a stout, clean-shaven man with a slow, oxlike eye, looked on stolidly.

After a moment she sat upright, gazing at him stolidly.

The man, overcome with the horror of the event, and full of compassion for the white-haired womanwho stood stolidly awaiting his message, evidently unsuspicious of its tenorcould scarcely find words with which to tell the news.

The old man looked at her stolidly, but made no further remark.

In spite of her satisfaction at having gained her point, Mrs. Bold felt somewhat remorseful for the tactics she had employed; and her husband stolidly munched his bread and bacon with a solemn, not to say gloomy, countenance.

" The grave-faced German went stolidly down the hall; the young man pulled on a pair of felt slippers; in the library he put the detached receiver to his ear and spoke evenly: "Well, Miss Vale?" There was a small, gasping exclamation from the wire, a sort of breath-catching flutter of sound such as a person might utter who had been running hard.

He wondered how he could go into crime so stolidly.

And the Perkins boy stood by stolidly while the dry clods were rumbling upon the pine box in the grave.

" "Yes, padrona," Adamo would reply, stolidly.

Again I sought the Ixion of the vessel, who calmly and stolidly performed his duty as if, indeed, Fate directed, without a change of feature now, or expression.

Large hoops were in her flat, enormous ears, that seemed to suspend her shoulders as they touched them, drawn up and narrowed as these were, even beyond their natural hideousness, by her attitude, one which she maintained as stolidly as a dervish.