Kent appeared, grinning amiably, in the doorway, but Val was looking beyond, and scarcely saw him-beyond, where stood a new stable upon the ashes of the old; a new corral, the posts standing solidly in the holes dug for those burned away; a new haystack-when hay was almost priceless!
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Mrs. Whittle, the milliner, sat on Ponsonboy's left; a tall and solidly built lady of forty-five, who was so very good as to be disagreeable.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
"Yes," assented Thorne with deep but languid content; "it looks almost as if another moderately good harvest would wipe out my last obligation and set me solidly on my feet.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss