The immutable, awful quiet of a dying world.

She was delicate-looking, rather quiet in general conversation, though she spoke French easily, but was interesting when she was talking to one or two people.

No light was shown, and the whole place was quiet as a grave.

Spalding was in the bow of the boat, and when within some eight rods of the game, we lay perfectly quiet for a moment, when his rifle spoke out and its voice rung and re-echoed among the surrounding hills as if a whole platoon of musketry were blazing all around us.

"All quiet at the Cottage as you came by?" asked Mike.

Things were quiet on this sector of the Front that afternoon, though Italian Field Guns were bursting shrapnel from time to time over the Tamburo.

And I'll keep all quiet about the midshipman end of it.

He mounted the stairs smartly without stopping to rest, went with a step unusually light and quiet to his chamber and sat by the window opening upon the rusty balcony.

What other end than supremacy had he in mind that he has undertaken to cause agitation and to meddle in private business, when he might have enjoyed quiet with safety?

Whose mansion heaven, yet lay within a manger; Who gave all food, yet sucked a virgin's breast; Who could have killed, yet fled a threatening danger; Who sought all quiet by his own unrest; Who died for them that highly did offend him, And lives for them that cannot comprehend him.

As she quieted under its influence, the disappointed listeners, now tip-toeing carefully from the room, heard her murmur in final appeal: "Cannot Adelaide spare one minute fromfrom her company downstairs, to wish me health and kiss me good night?

The whole party remained quiet during the night and most of the next day.

It is more quiet than Calcutta; and sad, with its one walk terminating (as I have told you) at Lady Canning's grave.

It is safer to lie quiet until the mist lifts.

Could ye not leave, this day of all the year, Your silly suits, petitions, quarrels, pleas? Could ye not leave, this once in seven years, Our Lady to come holy-quiet from Mass.

There is a quiet after the abandoning of pursuits, something like the rest that follows a laborious day.

And he came into the bank as quiet like as anyone else would.

" When he lay down for his afternoon nap and the house was dull and quiet without his waking presence, the ladies would gather in groups outside his door as if in a king's antechamber, waiting for him to awaken, saying to one another ever and again, "Sh, sh!"

Monsieur Leclerc soothed this frightened, happy, incredulous little woman into quiet before very long; and if he really began to feel a true affection for her from the moment he perceived her humble and entire devotion to him, who shall blame him?

When they said goodbye, there was a lovely quiet between them.

All lies quiet beneath the quiet sky.

And so did I resolve that I put my disgust within my pocket, as we do say, and stay safe and quiet within that Hollow.

All is quiet around him, and God's blessing on this quiet and thoughtfulness, for it is nothing but good!

She stood hushed, and lifted her eyes; and the gray of the sea, and the low cloud that was like a canopy above, and the lightening of colorless light towards the west, entered with their great quiet into her heart.

Just before dawn on the 20th there was absolute quiet along the whole line.