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

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

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

4) Too often people sat stolidly watching the noisy little fiddler.

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

6) His brother Gawain ignored him, gazing at the salt cellar or the window for minutes at a time and stolidly chewing.

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

8) He said & quot ; no & quot ; stolidly.