Downstairs Anne and the doctor sat staidly on, the man dreaming with a knotted forehead, the girl sewing.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
For one man, having a lack of imagining, would scoff, and another, maybe, to take it very staidly, but some would build Fancy upon the tellings of the Records, and make foolish and fantastic that which had groundings in Truth; and thus is it ever.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
One was with a handsome young officer, and walked staidly beside him, as if content with her quality of captive or captor.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells