Usa "stolid" in una frase
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stolid
1. stolid face suddenly grown thoughtful
2. Despite her grin, Truman’s stolid expression hadn’t changed one iota
3. the stolid hermit from her son, Vera didn’t know what to expect, other than that Artie and his mother could not be with him
4. Our stolid guide, whose name turned out to be Chaaygee
5. The whole scene was not lost on the ship’s crew, for I was treated with deference even by the typically stolid Chosin captain, who personally escorted me to my cabin and asked permission to sail with the next tide
6. He seemed to look at me with affection rather than the stolid dignity to which I had become so accustomed
7. The next morning, after a wretched breakfast, the rather stolid and taciturn son of our innkeeper duly led us to a private bath
8. somewhat past her better years and wearing an expression of stolid patience couple with infinite toil
9. grinned in response, with stolid self-confidence
10. Without a backward glance he rode toward the city, a supple, erect figure, gleaming in his burnished armor, his stolid, bearded henchmen jogging beside him
11. Even the stolid Alpheus twins had been shocked by this talk about the death of Jesus
12. Roman education bred an unheard-of and stolid loyalty
13. The considerable strength in his neck and shoulders was never fully tested nor the stolid glint in his eyes—small, round and perennially bloodshot
14. Captain Gorrie was sitting with his Crew and looked as stolid as
15. She’d been staring past me at the square, stolid bulk of Lawrence Hall, but her gaze sharpened at once
16. Her stolid look shook me out of my spell, and I lumbered outside to take a piss
17. As the hull filled with water, the boat felt logy, heavy, rolling from side to side with a stolid, slower motion
18. Who, then, can wonder that a Christianity so diminished in its forces both to win and to appall, so pale and so colorless, naturally maintains a doubtful fight with the stiff-necked pagans of Asia? Is there not required a doctrine that commends itself more cogently to the reason and to the conscience of men, of the teachers as well as the taught, to their imagination not less than to their affections,—a love so real, so tender and intelligible—a terror so soul-subduing, so near at hand, and so appreciably just,—as to shake if it cannot vanquish the stoutest resistance of the heathen;—a hope of speedy victory to the Church, sufficient to restore the death-daring energies of the first century, and a courage founded on overpowering conviction which would engage in closer conflict with Eastern Buddhism, and the stolid positivism of Confucius? That 'throneless king,’ as the Chinese call him, would soon, I trust in God, lose much of his, opposing power, before a Savior preached as if He were the very JESUS of the gospels, 'coming again quickly’ to be the Lord of the world
19. "Emigrants have no rights, Evremonde," was the stolid reply
20. " We can see the whole scene at a glance, the stolid unconsciousness of Sancho and the perplexity of his master, upon whose perception the incongruity has just forced itself
21. It stopped its stolid progression across the tortured flags and appeared to be listening intently; then, moving its dozens of feet in an intricate pattern, it turned on its length and headed towards the Potent Voyager
22. Next the Scotchman was the place assigned to Costello, the eccentric, while at his side was seated in stolid repose the squat form of Madden
23. The trim Inspector Martin, the old, grey-headed country doctor, myself, and a stolid village policeman made up the rest of that strange company
24. Those on either side had the tough, stolid look of members of the Owslafa
25. He returned with a heavy, stolid Owsla sentry named Ragwort, who at first had some difficulty in understanding what it was that the General wanted to know
26. He's very stolid
27. Meade’s stolid old Betsy
28. Even before the letter he’d been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part stolid and earthbound, nose to the deep fryer, in the stifling, sizzling South
29. Don't you remember? You WON'T tell, WILL you, Joe?" And the poor creature dropped on his knees before the stolid murderer, and clasped his appealing hands
30. Now Tom shivered from head to heel; for his eye fell upon the stolid face of Injun Joe
31. After a long wait the jury filed in and took their places; shortly afterward, Potter, pale and haggard, timid and hopeless, was brought in, with chains upon him, and seated where all the curious eyes could stare at him; no less conspicuous was Injun Joe, stolid as ever
32. Ishmael intervenes when he sees a sailor cutting a new tattoo in Queequeg's stolid flesh with a knife
33. My father driving, so stolid
34. The trim Inspector Martin, the old, gray-headed country doctor, myself, and a stolid village policeman made up the rest of that strange company
35. " He winked and made a gesture, probably intended to suggest victory and triumph ; then with stolid composure he took out of his pocket a newspaper which he had evidently only just bought, unfolded it and began reading the last page, apparently intending to leave me undisturbed
36. In answer to my call Marya appeared and informed me in the most stolid tone, that the lady had put on her things long, long ago and gone out by the back way
37. The two merchants looked respectable, but were strangely silent and stolid
38. He had a large wart on the left side of his nose; narrow eyes, and a calm, stolid, sleepy expression
39. She felt the contrast between her own activity and intellectual energy, and the stolid indifference and sheep-like contentedness of her husband, and it went to her heart!
40. As he danced he pounded up and down, taking tiny and rapid steps on the same spot with a stolid expression of countenance
41. It is not the simplicity of the simple-minded, not the stolid repose of the uneducated
