| In my very young years I had a gravity and staidness of mind and spirit not usual in children. |
| There 143 is a curious formality and staidness about him and his companions which never degenerates into shyness. |
| She looked older that summer, and there was a staidness in her manner. |
| There's a kind of staidness and a kind of fear, I suppose, of playfulness, of merriment, of the colloquial and the demotic. |
| She thought only of women of her mother's age and staidness, who wore bonnets. |
| Yet, be it recollected that in all points of staidness, the club has nothing to fear, for its office-bearers are mostly married ladies. |
