An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. From LearnThat.org. [Washington Irving (1783-1859).]
An equable climate. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
An equable temper. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an equable climate; an equable temperament. From Dictionary.com.
I have adopted the term equable marketing to designate this interesting attempt to solve the problem of distribution in Han times. From Wordnik.com. [Discourses On Salt and Iron] Reference
"The present arrangement is more or less temporary," she commenced in equable tones. From Wordnik.com. [Just Patty] Reference
So the system came to be known as equable marketing. From Wordnik.com. [Discourses On Salt and Iron] Reference
In the year 115 B.C., officers to "equalize distribution", chün shu, which may be termed equable marketing, were appointed. From Wordnik.com. [Discourses On Salt and Iron] Reference
We have not yet seen that your marketing is "equable". From Wordnik.com. [Discourses On Salt and Iron] Reference
Mr. Wood preserved a very equable tenor of acting. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
It is frequently stated, as a reason for its equable climate, that. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The brine that pours with an equable flow into the seething pan at. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
The climate is more equable than in Gaul, the cold being less severe. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
To these advantages must be added that of a mild and equable climate. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
"Shanks is a rogue," said Sir Philip Hastings, in a calm, equable tone. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Therefore, these things did not surprise the calm, equable mind of Jem. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
August and September are generally the driest months, and the most equable. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
His temper, never a very equable commodity, got the better of his diplomacy. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
It was much on her account that I left Maryland for the more equable climate of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
He longed for the unforeseen; his wife irritated him, she was of too equable a temperament. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
During the more equable temperature of night the balloon's height is governed by the drag rope. From Wordnik.com. [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference
He is blessed with robust health, is industrious in his habits, and possesses an equable temper. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886] Reference
It was impossible for him to do his work with the regular method, the equable temper, of a Southey or a. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
It had rewarded his cares by colouring magnificently until it had grown a deep equable ebony everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
He is the best being, the gentlest, most equable, industrious, simple-minded, and straightforward ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
The division of spoils is supposed to be neat and equable: the Somme was fought in verse, Dunkirk abandoned in prose. From Wordnik.com. [Bomber County by Daniel Swift] Reference
No woman, however, the victim of chronic constipation, can preserve an equable temperament or an amicable disposition. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Besides having the most equable climate in the world Honolulu claims the most perfect bathing-resort on earth, Waikiki Beach. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in the Orient] Reference
The care shown in rearing insures a perfect straightness of stem, and an equable diameter of about an inch or an inch and a half. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
The equable climate and the unstrained life of the young men produced something more rounded and fleshy than we see in the north. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
He enjoyed the glory of his earlier exploits, and the popularity secured by his equable temperament, undisturbed for eleven years. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
No accumulation of lays can alter the style from its trick of detached and abrupt suggestions to the slower and more equable mode. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
The equable management of access to energy and raw materials is beyond the capacity of the international system as presently constituted. From Wordnik.com. [AMERICA'S ASSIGNMENT] Reference
Even the normally equable president has begun taking an occasional shot at Perot, while his aides debate whether it's time for escalation. From Wordnik.com. [Perot: Rattling The White House] Reference
But while Mme. de Lambert had a calm and equable temperament, and loved to surround herself with an atmosphere of repose, she was not without. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Fortunately, Wren was an enthusiast in his great work, and the happy possessor of an equable temperament that nothing could seriously disturb. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference
Why the air within the cave should be so fresh, pure, and equable, all the year round, even in its deepest recesses, is not so easily explained. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
"That keeps the temperature about equable;" said August, "but I have another lamp, larger than this, to use in case my incubator grows too cool.". From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference
Once she had become a freshman at Overton College, Grace's equable disposition and love of fair play had attracted equally loyal allegiance to her standard. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
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