It was no longer staring and terrible, but calm and peaceful as in sleepalmost smiling.

Ostracism is violent or peaceful in according to the manner in which it is practised.

And, as we have seen already, Carleton's last year, 1796, was more peaceful than his first.

The evils and dangers of war seem as requisite for the preservation of public morals as the laws themselves; at least it is the melancholy moral of history, that when nations resolve to be peaceful with respect to their neighbours, they begin to be vicious with respect to themselves.

The countryside, too, in my opinion, would be more peaceful of a summer afternoon were it not overrun with dogs.

It would hev been more convenient an' private.' "Malviny's cheeks got as red as beets an' the flowers on her bonnet danced a Highland Fling as she leaned over to whisper somethin' to her sister, but I hed relieved my feelin's an' could join in quite peaceful like when Mrs. Songster said we'd close the meetin' by singin' 'Blest be the tie that binds.'

Of his mother he says, "She was too mild and peaceful for the planet she lived in"; and of his father, a stone mason, he writes, "Could I write my books as he built his houses, walk my way so manfully through this shadow world, and leave it with so little blame, it were more than all my hopes.

We have heard much of Dunstable larks but the enthusiasm with which gourmets speak of these tit-bits of luxury, is far exceeded by the Germans, who travel to Leipsic from a distance of many hundred miles, merely to eat a dinner of larks, and then return contented and peaceful to their families.

The Mediterranean lay quiet and peaceful around us, and the healthy, sturdy American sailors gave a feeling of confidence.

Pausing a moment: "It's always peaceful after a storm!"

All very quiet without, and I felt peaceful within myself, reading a chapter and sitting alone.

"I was only philosophising upon these scenes of inexpensive patriotism which fill even the most urbane and peaceful among us full of truculence. . . .

Gaul was far, however, from remaining docile and peaceful at this epoch.

She was laying awake thinking it over one night while Bill was sleeping peaceful by her side, when all of a sudden she 'ad an idea.

The little town lay quiet and peaceful on the hill where his grandfather and Captain John Smith sixty years ago had planted it.

To those who know what have been the real sentiments of the French population towards England for some years past, the tone of this document, its undisguised preference for peaceful over quarrelsome courses, the desire which it manifests to place the representative of British rule forward as the patron of a work dear to French-Canadian hearts, speaks volumes.

The official report of the viceroy to the secretary of state for India in London, covering the ten years ending Dec. 31, 1902, contains the following interesting paragraph concerning the greatest source of anxiety: "Relations with Afghanistan have been peaceful throughout the decade.

Although these songs were a condensed extract of the whole anti-slavery constitution and by-laws, yet the mob was as peaceful under these paeans to liberty as a child under the influence of an anodyne.

And all things, God be praised, happy and peaceful about us.