" Laurella Consadine lay quiescent for a moment, big black eyes studying the smoky logs that raftered the roof.

Take this picture of the lark: From his cold nest the skylark springs; Sings, pauses, sings; shoots up anew; Attains his topmost height, and sings Quiescent in his vault of blue.

Johnson was very quiescent to-day.

And not a soul was to be seen around them; there was naught save wild Nature, grandly quiescent under the bright sun of that splendid April day.

LA VIE On summer afternoons I sit Quiescent by you in the park, And idly watch the sunbeams gild And tint the ash-trees' bark.

Eastward lay the Armenians, reviving, like the Greeks, after the ebb of the Arab flood, and the Arabs themselves, quiescent within their natural bounds and transfusing the wisdom of Aristotle and Hippokrates into their native culture.