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Katy had already inquired of the peddler whether the deceased had left a will; and she saw the Bible placed in the bottom of a new pack, which she had made for his accommodation, with a most stoical indifference; but as the six silver spoons were laid carefully by its side, a sudden twinge of her conscience objected to such a palpable waste of property, and she broke silence.

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The main character, a paleontologist named Benjamin Kasparian, however, has a really admirable and stoical attitude towards dying.

Alan Ladd, even when he wasn't acting, appeared as the sexy strong stoical silent type, and here he again fills that bill.

Chapter SevenShe was stoical the next day when Maitre Hareng, the bailiff, with two assistants, presented himself at her house to draw up the inventory for the distraint.

"But, my lieutenant," said a soldier, less stoical than his chief, and who had approached Milady, "this woman is not asleep."

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