127 Verbs to Use for the Word calming

A noteworthy event, when it is considered how few Circuses there were in those days, and how seldom those few came near enough to disturb the calm of an out-of-the-way country village.

We found a great apparent calm everywhere.

This letter, and the refreshment with which Seaton furnished him, raised his drooping and exhausted spirits; and, at his friend's request, he wrapped himself in the large boat-cloak that his provident wife had sent for him and lay down to enjoy the first calm and undisturbed repose that had been permitted to him since he left his beloved home.

A perfect deluge was descending, but it had brought a calm to the waiting earth, and calm to tired girlish nerves as well.

The face of Swaran brightened, like the full moon of heaven: when the clouds vanish away, and leave her calm and broad in the midst of the sky.

The storm was overpast, a breath of balm Lapped the low waves, and lingered on the lea, For in the twilight fell a holy calm, He came unto me walking on the sea.

I knew animals too well to attempt to withdraw it, and so preserved a calm more wonderful than I could have given myself credit for.

He maintained a calm and even a cheerful countenance; but in his thoughts he had great anxiety.

Her friends tried in vain to break up her unnatural calm.

" She studied him and he thought she pondered, although it was possible she wanted to recover her calm.

A little breeze, succeeding a dead calm, ruffled a flag at the stern of the steamer, and the boys saw the Brazilian colors flutter in the wind.

Mrs. Cartwright's look was obviously disturbed, but she had not altogether lost her calm.

By the time all this was accomplished she had regained her wonted calm and was airing some rather strong views on the subject of two little boys who lived with a catapult next door but o

If after every tempest come such calms May the winds blow till they have wakened death! Othello.

His appearance produced a momentary calm, when a little child cried out, "Let Ambrose our governor be our bishop!"

Your celestial smile, shedding a tranquil calm o'er my perturbed spirit, has been my daily sustenance.

Then the noble trees are hushed in the hazy light, and drip with balsam; the cones are ripe, and the seeds, with their ample purple wings, mottle the air like flocks of butterflies; while deer feeding in the flowery openings between the groves, and birds and squirrels in the branches, make a pleasant stir which enriches the deep, brooding calm of the wilderness, and gives a peculiar impressiveness to every tree.

He did not for one moment give any sign of abandoning the unnatural calm which seemed to have descended upon him.

That would be accepting international calm at the expense of domestic differences.

She leaned back in the carriage negligently, affecting an absolute calm.

" It was a lovely, bland morning, in the last week of May; and the atmosphere was already getting the soft hues of summer, or assuming the hazy and solemn calm that renders the season so quiet and soothing, after the fiercer strife of the elements.

He paused to borrow my tobacco pouch and fill his pipe, and the blundering way he filled it and spilled the precious weed on the ground visibly belied the calm of his easy language.

It is all as if into some fermentable medium or solution a little yeast were dropped that changed the quiet calm of its surface into a bubbling, effervescing revolution.

"My misfortune was to have cruel relatives whose malice destroyed the calm we enjoyed; had they been reasonable, I had now been happy in the enjoyment of my dear husband.

After first experiencing an uninterrupted calm, we incurred great danger in a sudden tempest, so that we had to retrace the whole distance by means of the oars.

127 Verbs to Use for the Word  calming