stockish
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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
He crushed with his contempt the two stockish imbeciles who did not understand the sublimity of his song, which opened wide the heavens!
From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Gilbert Cannan
The pilgrim is throughout a pale and stockish figure; but the devil covers a multitude of defects.
From Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson
"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
Nought is so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature.
From Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 by Thomas Hanly Ball
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