He had been out since early dawn, gathering the dew from the sweet-scented flower, or painting in liquid vowels the pleasant calmness of the cow-pasture, or mayhap echoing with hie pencil's point the well-noted strains of the Shanghai rooster, when the far-off distant bell announced to him that he must finish his poetic pabulum, and hurry home to something more in accordance with the science of modern cookery.

This, of course, was an aggravation of his offensive calmness in the face of so much revolutionary rage.

" The calmness with which Mr. Effingham spoke had an effect on Aristabulus, and, for a moment, he was staggered.

This was doubtless in a great degree constitutional, for he is said to have been an utter stranger to physical fear, preserving his calmness on occasions when others would be in a fever of alarm.

Could his parents, thencould even his broken-hearted sisterbear to disturb his angelic calmness by any display of their own grief?

Who is not better for thinking over these sonnets, recalling as they do a peaceful spirit of resignation and calmness at the approach of the last hour?

It is now or never, Pertinax!" Marcia's intense emotion made her appear icily indifferent, but she did not deceive Galen, although Pertinax welcomed her calmness as excusing unenthusiasm in herself.

It was from this atmosphere, and enveloped in it, that she went out to greet Ross; and, as she went, she was surprised at her own calmness before the prospect of seeing him again, after six months' separationthe longest in their lives.

The Quakers who go about their business, of every description, with more calmness than we, have more title to the use of these benedictory prefaces.

Momentarily nonplussed by such unheard-of calmness under a ghostly visitation, the apparition, without changing position, allowed itself to roll one inquiring eye towards the opening above the step-ladder, where the moonlight revealed an attentive head of red hair.

The sorrow of the Nausett Indian seemed excessive; and Tisquantum probably considered it so, for he listened with perfect calmness to his recital, and then merely replied, 'Happily, the youth is safe.

But I exhort you, O Romans, though perhaps other measures might have been wiser, still now to wait with calmness for the return of the ambassadors.

There is a frightful calmness about all he says and does; and his directions are all so clear, and his mind so perfectly collected, it is quite impossible.

The evening of our return to Chicago the sunset was of a splendor and calmness beyond any we saw at the West.

But this day they were sharply ousted from habitual calmness into a state of mind bordering on the ludicrous.

A flood of tears cooled the heat of my brain, and a calmness like that of death soon took possession of me.

I could not think what to do, at first; but remembering how sometimes a little thing had utterly broken me down from a regained calmness after loss, some homely association, some recall of the past, I begged of Mr. Bowen to bring up from the village Frank's knapsack, which he had found in one of his men's hands,the poor fellow having taken care of that, while he lost his own: "For the captain's wife," he said.