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  • Stoical, taciturn, proud of his physical prowess, he found all these qualities incarnated in his white companion.

    Chapter IV 2010

  • Stoical, good-humored, a little bit touched in the head, and with a high tolerance for pain, I'm guessing:

    Living with bees in your ear 2009

  • Stoical, good-humored, a little bit touched in the head, and with a high tolerance for pain, I'm guessing:

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • These are Stoic virtues, and Blair's sermons are full of the need to be Stoical.

    Scottish Philosophy in the 18th Century Broadie, Alexander 2009

  • Stoical Exes: Sarah Larson isn't mad about being dumped by George Clooney; she's thankful for the career opportunities she's gotten out of dating him!

    Morning Memo: Stoical Exes, Angry Managers, 'Asian Beauties' 2008

  • Stoical Exes: Sarah Larson isn't mad about being dumped by George Clooney; she's thankful for the career opportunities she's gotten out of dating him!

    Morning Memo: Stoical Exes, Angry Managers, 'Asian Beauties' 2008

  • Station; which render us agreeable to the World, and the World to us; but live in a Stoical Dulness or humersome Stupidity.

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • Happiness, to think it consisted in a dull Neglect, or Stoical Contempt of all Human Pleasures; or to imagine any true Felicity cou'd be had without its true Author, Woman.

    Exilius 2008

  • I endeavour'd to apply that Stoical Receipt, but found it very fallible.

    Exilius 2008

  • I said unto the fools, deal not so madly, and 'twas an old Stoical paradox, omnes stultos insanire, [179] all fools are mad, though some madder than others.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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