Every one was out to-day with his kite, old and young, men of sixty, with yellow, wrinkled faces, down to toddlers of three, who clutched their strings and flew their little kites with as much gravity and staidness as their grandfathers.
"Peeps at Many Lands: Japan"
John Finnemore
Yet an endeavour was made, and that on both sides; obligation blunted the edge of Mistress Barbara's scorn, freedom's respect for virtue's chain schooled Nell to an unwonted staidness of demeanour.
"Simon Dale"
Anthony Hope
The little French chapel has its service, and there is a certain staidness about the morning which is unlooked-for and refreshing.
"A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees"
Edwin Asa Dix