stolidest

“The breath of scandal permeates through the stolidest walls, or perhaps it comes in by the keyhole.”

When the Birds Begin to Sing

“There was a big instant kindliness about him that would have won the cordiality of the stolidest of interviewers, as we talked about railways, government ownership, the needs of journalism and the value in business of the personal equation -- his own phrase which he repeated so often that it seemed to contain something of prophetic intention.”

The Masques of Ottawa

“Yet look -- behold it; in the stolidest of do-nothing Governments, that impossibility is a thing done.”

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843

“Suddenly the drums beat to arms and the living rose, -- and then the stolidest veteran in that vast multitude shuddered as he left the side of his ghastly bedfellow who had rested with him so quietly all that summer night, and by whose side the frame that now shrank away with horror might rest to-night as ghastly as he.”

Four years under Marse Robert,

“Farmer Blaize leaned round the Bantam to have a look at him, and beheld the stolidest mask ever given to man.”

Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 1

“Slaps and sharp words are penalties that suggest themselves alike to the least reclaimed barbarian and the stolidest peasant.”

Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library

“Yet look, behold it: in the stolidest of Donothing Governments, that impossibility is a thing done.”

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

“Yet look, behold it: in the stolidest of Donothing”

Past and Present