27 Metaphors for calm

The Crime grown calm was a disquieting symptom.

This calm, these joys, dear innocence! are thine: Joys ill exchang'd for gold, and pride, and empire.

Prayer had brought its blessed influence, but that calm was more the quiescence proceeding from over-excitement than natural feeling; she felt it so, and dreaded the return of mental agony, as bodily sufferers await the periodical paroxysms of pain.

The calm inside was no proof of the calm out.

" Thirdly, as for fraternal censure and reproof of faults (when it is just and expedient to use it), ordinarily the calmest and mildest way is the most proper, and most likely to obtain good success; it commonly doth in a more kindly manner convey the sense thereof into the heart, and therein more powerfully worketh remorse, than the fierce and harsh way.

"Calm be her sleep as the silence of even When hearts unto deep invocation give birth.

Amidst that silent shower, the royal mind An easy passage found, And left its sacred earth behind: Nor murmuring groan express'd, nor labouring sound, Nor any least tumultuous breath; Calm was his life, and quiet was his death.

I cannot speak from experience of the winds or weather during the month of April, at Swan River, but have been told that the seabreezes are moderate, and the land winds of longer duration; calms are frequentand the weather altogether seems to indicate the breaking up of the summer season; light winds are occasionally felt from the northward, with a dull, gloomy appearance between that point and South-West.

The wild storm of feeling that strove to have way, For I knew that each sign of the sorrow I felt Her soul to fresh pity and passion would melt, And calm was my voice, and averted my eyes, As I parted from all that in being I prize.

"Calm was the day, and the scene, delightful.

935 Calm is the well-deserving brute, His peace hath no offence betrayed; But now, while down that slope he wends, A voice to Peter's ear

yet I knew thy fatal power, Bright glow'd the colour of my youthful days, As, on the sultry zone, the torrid rays, That paint the broad-leaved plantain's glossy bower; Calm was my bosom as this silent hour, When o'er the deep, scarce heard, the zephyr strays, 'Midst the cool tam'rinds indolently plays, Nor from the orange shakes its od'rous flower:

This calm, these joys, dear innocence! are thine: Joys ill exchang'd for gold, and pride, and empire.

1080 Calm were the elements, night's silence deep, The waves scarce murmuring, and the winds asleep; Yet fate for ruin takes so still an hour, And treacherous sands the princely bark devour; Then death unworthy seized a generous race, To virtue's scandal, and the stars' disgrace!

It appears that the westerly winds had already set in, and that the calm we experienced on the 17th was an unoccupied space between the easterly and westerly winds.

As if the peace within, and the calm around, and the content surpassing wealth, were things which were to be put in the same category with fame, and power, and love, and leisure.

Calm, but white-faced, were theythe menwhen in the dawn they came.

Their calm was remarkable-not a complaint from any one.

No forced calm is calm enough: only honest calm, natural calm.

Calm is the eve, The wavelets heave Their crests to the setting sun, Glitter awhile

* Calm is all nature as a resting wheel.

Though the soft spirit of those eyes Might ne'er with LAMB'S compete Ne'er sparkle with a wit as wise, Or melt in tears, as sweet; That calm and unforgotten look A kindred love reveals, With his who never friend forsook, Or hurt a thing that feels.

"Calm be her slumbers near kindred are sighing, A husband deplores in deep anguish of heart, Beneath the cold earth unconsciously lying, No murmur can reach her, no tempest can start.

The calling of witnesses to character, the opening of the judge's charge, pointing from its first sentence to a conviction, elicited no further manifestation of feeling from the prisoner: he was as calm as despair.

She, the one listener, felt, as it were, her brain fill soft with tears, her eyes rained them, and her heart, whose pulses had dropped as calm as dew, echoed the peaceful longing of the whole heart of humanity.

27 Metaphors for  calm