If they could not teach the white men their practical
stoicism, they at least made them acquainted with the edible properties of roots and wild rosebuds, and furnished them a supply from their own store.
Strickland would not go near them, not from any affectation of
stoicism, for I found him seated on a three-legged stool when I went into the studio one day and he was alone, but because he did not like them.
Indeed this gentleman's
stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.
The travel-stained adventurers gazed after her in astonishment, and even the unemotional Indians, journeying in with their pelties, relaxed their accustomed
stoicism as they marvelled at the beauty of the pale-faced maiden.
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Stoicism! That's a pose of the Greeks and the Romans.
Although in a state of perfect repose, and apparently disregarding, with characteristic
stoicism, the excitement and bustle around him, there was a sullen fierceness mingled with the quiet of the savage, that was likely to arrest the attention of much more experienced eyes than those which now scanned him, in unconcealed amazement.
The Saxon had been under very intense and agonizing apprehensions concerning his son; for Nature had asserted her rights, in spite of the patriotic
stoicism which laboured to disown her.
The
stoicism of the warriors was at an end; they became wild and desperate; some set fire to the village as a last means of checking the pestilence; others, in a frenzy of despair, put their wives and children to death, that they might be spared the agonies of an inevitable disease, and that they might all go to some better country.
He was prepared to take whatever his former comrades had to offer in the way of insults and reproaches, and take them in manly silence and
stoicism.
Sometimes you saw an untaught
stoicism which was profoundly moving.
A jungle beast was Tarzan with the
stoicism of the beast and the intelligence of man.
In spite of his Christian
stoicism, when she went up and addressed him, and smiled gaily, encouragingly, even fondly in his face, his hand would tremble and his eye burn.