This street was not so crowded as K, and I walked along in quietude, catching my breath and congratulating myself upon my hat and my get-away. From Wordnik.com. [Road-Kids and Gay-Cats] Reference
His manners possess all that unostentatious frankness, and self-possessed urbanity and quietude, that is indicative of refined feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
They both sat awhile in that kind of quietude which often falls between two who have stirred some deep fountain of emotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
Terms such as quietude, emptiness, and simplicity favored by the Laozi describe a general ethical orientation rather than specific practices. From Wordnik.com. [Laozi] Reference
When I get back to Boulge I shall recover my quietude which is now all in. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1] Reference
The Great Road, however, is got hushed again into a kind of quietude, though one of the wakefullest. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Her quietude was a hymn of grateful praise!. From Wordnik.com. [The Man] Reference
And all, yea all, with heavenly quietude is blest. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference
They come for natural beauty, pure air, and quietude. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
New Providence subsided into its usual state of quietude. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Whose were the footsteps that broke in upon her quietude?. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
There was a quietude over it that seemed the peace of death. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
The air was oppressive with a strange, almost rural quietude. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
But there is no noisy clatter of the cars to break the quietude. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
The previous quietude of the trenches now gave place to more activity. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
Save quietude for brooding intellectuals lost in musty narrow library halls. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference
All wrong for the drink that writer E.B. White called the elixir of quietude. From Wordnik.com. [Shake Or Stir, But Please Don't Sweeten] Reference
The most busy thoroughfares of former times have now almost the quietude of a. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Suddenly, the strange quietude of the place was invaded by the sound of voices. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Plaistow is on the road to nowhere and has not its equal for quietude in England. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Whatever noise may be in the air you know in your heart that quietude is its true characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Here is neither the broken, picturesque shore of the north nor the inland quietude of Ronkonkoma. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Carlton had watched for my last good-night signal and grew alarmed at its absence and my quietude. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
This story is 'characterized by a consistency and quietude of individuality which is rare in Dickens.'. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
Perhaps because the proposed eruv seems to challenge a hallowed English tradition of religious quietude. From Wordnik.com. [Birds &Amp; Trees, Poles &Amp; String] Reference
In strong contrast to the crowd and bustle at leaving in the afternoon is the quietude late in the evening. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
The summer of the same year, accompanied by my daughters, I sought the quietude of the mountains of Virginia. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Les Bains gave an air of security and quietude to the place which was very soothing to the heart of the soldier. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918] Reference
Elvira had grown into her spinsterhood without rebellion and with the quietude of mind conferred by an even disposition. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Occasionally, the girl lapsed into a quietude that was half-stupor and half-sleep, the while she reclined on the boughs. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
She thought that she could have been very happy on that splendid night, if her heart had been full of quietude and serenity. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Cattle and kine were taken furtively or openly to these very hills and vales where Jim Lough now lived in quietude and peace. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
Thirty seconds and I was a hundred feet out, treading water in enveloping quietude, save the sound of the gently moving ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Vacation] Reference
"Well, let us say no more about it," cries he, springing to his feet, as though unable longer to endure his enforced quietude. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
If we're looking for a quiet person, we want a peculiar sort of quietude; and the lively ones must be just so lively and no more. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
Wilson differs from Wordsworth as Loch Awe, with its shaggy savagery of shore, from the Sunday quietude and beauty of Rydal-Water. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
In spite of my lame foot I was pacing about the room by this time, altogether too eager to control myself longer to physical quietude. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
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