He is excited, but we smile stolidly.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
There are the slow teams pulling stolidly at the ploughs-they were stopped, of course, for the carters to stare at the equipage; there are the wheat ricks; yonder a lone farmstead, and black cattle grazing in the pasture.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
"I'm not going to be his brother till the war's over," said the sergeant stolidly.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke