Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ventilated. They are built of stone and have few windows. The roofs are flat and covered with a sort of cement which is water-proof. The richer natives have houses with tiled roofs. The soldiers of the city are poorly fed and badly clothed, and are of a dull, stolid appearance. The heat in summer is excessive and particularly severe on the Europeans, who generally retire to villas on Mount Lebanon, which overlooks the city. Here the cool breezes are delightful. At the close of the lecture, views of Beirut were shown...
...said that owing to cases where several students in the English universities have broken down under the mental strain produced by their studies, searching investigations are being made into the entire system of instruction and requirements for degrees. If the stolid and hearty English frame cannot bear up under such an intense strain, how can we expect our American youth, with its constitutionally nervous temperament, to endure a long continued and severe course of study? Our burdens are continually growing heavier, owing to the ambitious rivalry between our colleges; will it not soon be found out that everything cannot...
...feet underneath the water, while the other raises itself aloft threateningly. Remembering your childish experience in see-saw, you make a rush up the log toward the middle. Arrived there you breathe a sigh of relief, for the unexpected show of vivacity on the part of such an apparently stolid mass has startled you not a little. For a moment you remain perfectly still; then suddenly, and without any manifest reason, the fiendish creature begins to revolve rapidly. You follow your natural instinct and keep your feet moving so as to counteract the motion of the log. It requires skilful...
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