stockish
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"I told you—I told you—" she choked, her stockish figure shaking with rage, "I told you—you—" He put up his elbow as if to ward off a blow.
From Widdershins by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
The pilgrim is throughout a pale and stockish figure; but the devil covers a multitude of defects.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
And while I stood there, stockish and stupid, the pair became aware of me.
From Marjorie by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
Although little has been recorded of the intimacies of Washington's youth, there are indications of more than one "flame" and that he was not dull and stockish with the young women.
From George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer
I could never deny, in looking back upon what followed, that I was eminently stockish; and I must say the ladies were well drilled to have so long 48 a patience with me.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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