Yet he could not help feeling the want of that excitement which, singularly enough, was most conducive to that calm equanimity for which he was notorious.

Richter could not believe that the man had left altogether, but regarded his actions with considerable equanimity, as it was apparent that his warning shots were intended rather to frighten than to kill.

Many pilgrims came, and the poet seems to have received them with cheerful equanimity.

She accepted the arrangement with surprising equanimity.

Once only did a question provoke an answer in any other tone than that of a lofty imperturbable equanimity.

I even watched with dim equanimity my friends racing past me, panting as they ran.

I would fain be assured that I am growing apace and rankly, though my very growth disturb this dull equanimity,though it be with struggle through long, dark, muggy nights or seasons of gloom.

'But do not Protestants themselves confess that our sins provoke God's anger?' 'Your common creed, when it talks rightly of God as one "who has no passions," ought to make you speak more reverently of the possibility of any act of ours disturbing the everlasting equanimity of the absolute Love.

Claudius, who had returned home, and had recovered some of his facile equanimity in the pleasures of the table, showed signs of relenting; but Narcissus knew that delay was death, and on his own authority sent a tribune and centurions to despatch the Empress.

The men point the big muzzles with intrepid equanimity, firing over the prostrate blue coats.

A dignified, judicial equanimity of tone is preserved from first to last.

Once only did a question provoke an answer in any other tone than that of a lofty imperturbable equanimity.

His anger was strong when it was excited, but his ordinary disposition was one of massive equanimity.

A certain degree, and a very considerable degree of insulation is necessary, that individual life and mental equanimity may go on.

The Brahmin exhibited the same mild equanimity as ever.

On the Western front the British have taken Grandcourt, and our "Mudlarks," encamped on an ocean of ooze, preserve a miraculous equanimity in spite of the attention of rats and cockroaches and the vagaries of the transport mule.

Some say that it is a matter of the wear and tear of our blood vessels, those rubber-like tubes which transport food and drainage with nonchalant equanimity to all cells as long as they last.

How often it appears that, in spite of the normal equanimity observable in circumstantial evidence, hereditary disciplinarisms are totally devoid of potential abstemiousness.

In a word, Roger Stapylton had acquiesced to the transferal of his daughter's affections with the peculiar equanimity of a properly reared American parent.

" "Ah! that, I dare say, is what one calls philosophical equanimity, though little to my humour.

"So it would have done at one time," I answer, still speaking (though no one could guess with what difficulty), with resolute equanimity.

My every whim was at least considered with a politeness which enabled me to accept a denial with a highly sane equanimity.

There, under two green umbrellas, like two fat rajahs in their shaking howdahs upon the backs of two white elephants, the friends would sit in solemn equanimity awaiting the evasive cunner, the vagrant perch or cod or the occasional flirtatious eel.

"To those who have any idea how foul a den was then a royal prison, it must appear almost marvellous that Carl Maria should have possessed sufficient equanimity to have occupied himself with his beloved art during his arrest.

He breakfasted on ham and eggs, in a state of tolerable equanimity; and mildly wondered at himself for doing it.