1. He said & quot ; no & quot ; stolidly.

2. He dropped into a chair and sat looking stolidly at the floor.

3. " Well, sir, " answered Job , stolidly, " I don't hold much with foreign parts. "

4. Men smoked pipes, wore roll-neck jerseys and had a stolidly dependable air about them.

5. He of the black gown again emerged from the shadows and paced stolidly on behind her.

6. Duwayne ploughs stolidly up and down the length of the pool several times like a great slab of walrus.

7. Churchgoing Marilyn Nelson - 1946- The Lutherans sit stolidly in rows; only their children feel the holy ghost that makes them jerk and bobble and almost destroys the pious atmosphere for those whose reverence bows their backs as if in work