She went through the same forms each day, at the usual hours of the day, and Jane, though she would have felt the apathetic doltishness of the woman less, felt how hard it must be for him to bear.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
But in the month of November of the last year, for once she owned to herself that she had been overcome,-overcome, it is true, because her adversary was plainly a person of stupidity, mailed by his doltishness against the keenest sarcasm she could launch against him, yet nevertheless overcome.
"The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton"
Wardon Allan Curtis