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  • But tranquil as she was, she was terrified of snakes.†   (source)
  • So yellow and tranquil, despite the violent architecture of his skull—the endless jawline, stretching for miles; the pop-up cheek-bones; and the pothole eyes.†   (source)
  • I tried to conjure Ali's frozen face, to really see his tranquil eyes,†   (source)
  • Roy was in an eerie yet tranquil daze.†   (source)
  • "Her face was made of heavenly smiles and her voice of tranquil music," Douglass wrote.†   (source)
  • True, this was the official version, the import of all the prayers that had been offered up; but Laura had a way of believing such things, not in the double way everyone else believed them, but with a tranquil single-mindedness that made me want to shake her.†   (source)
  • Her life passed this way, day after day, in tranquility.†   (source)
  • Too long—and now, even longer, my heart even louder, his tranquil eyes swallowing me whole.†   (source)
  • They called her a "strong voice in an urban wilderness" and "a radiant beacon, shedding light on the need to curtail continued overdevelopment of our once quaint and tranquil community."†   (source)
  • Her pregnancy, and her refusal to discuss it, must have struck the Wheelwrights with all the more severity because my mother had such a tranquil, modest nature.†   (source)
  • The media screens all flickered the same tranquil scene …. a Roman sky illuminated with brilliant stars.†   (source)
  • His expression was of tranquil incomprehension.†   (source)
  • Speckled across the tranquil landscape, looking harmless, and partly camouflaged by the day's lengthening shadows, were Redd's undealt card soldiers, lying flat one on top of another, each deck fifty-two soldiers thick, awaiting orders.†   (source)
  • ...the tranquil, light-flooded guesthouse where Spencer could escape her parents and their constantly barking labradoodles.†   (source)
  • He turns onto a remote, tranquil block between Ninth and Tenth Avenues.†   (source)
  • It stretched before them to the misty east, a tranquil land of rich black soil, wide slow-moving rivers, and hundreds of small lakes that shone like mirrors in the sun, protected on all sides by its sheltering peaks.†   (source)
  • Returning to her desk, she turned on her audio interface for some tranquil background music.†   (source)
  • Before me was a wide tranquil river, and near the middle of that river was a child splashing, screaming ….†   (source)
  • Our world will return to the former state of tranquility we enjoyed before all this nonsense.†   (source)
  • I stood up and stretched and looked across the highway at the river, so tranquil, its water as blue as the sky.†   (source)
  • It's so still, it's so peaceful, it's so perfectly tranquil.†   (source)
  • It seemed tranquil, a very safe public spot.†   (source)
  • They lapsed into tranquil silence.†   (source)
  • It's an old, weathered face, bearded, tranquil looking as though it sleeps.†   (source)
  • The sky is as tranquil as tales of Old Earth's seas, the shallows are dappled with ultramarine tints, and a warm breeze blows in from the sea to ripple the russet willowgrass on the hillside near me.†   (source)
  • I felt a tranquil atmosphere settle around me.†   (source)
  • I could hear nothing, I could see no one, everything seemed tranquil.†   (source)
  • Their marriage never had been tranquil.†   (source)
  • A tranquil Republic?†   (source)
  • When Ted Lavender was shot in the head, the men talked about how they'd never seen him so mellow, how tranquil he was, how it wasn't the bullet but the tranquilizers that blew his mind.†   (source)
  • The grove settled into tranquility, as if satisfied with the death sentence it had given me.†   (source)
  • Paul remembered an essay by Edmund Wilson where Wilson had said, in typically grudging Wilson manner, that Wordsworth's criterion for the writing of good poetry , strong emotion recalled in a time of tranquility , would do well enough for most dramatic fiction as well.†   (source)
  • Lying there among the lace is my long-dead sister Lisa in a white baptism dress, her face in tranquil sleep like the way she looks in a picture my mother keeps in an old album.†   (source)
  • A tranquil mood had come over me, and for this reason I believe I was again motoring very slowly - probably at no more than fifteen miles per hour.†   (source)
  • The thought of all that wind sweeping toward us across the open fields of the prairie is a tranquil one and I feel lulled by it.†   (source)
  • The way he snapped at the babies' diapers with that look of narcotic bliss on his face, and the way he begged for his tranquil- izers like they were steak hits.†   (source)
  • This was also a new idea, seen from the Greek humanistic point of view; the humanists of antiquity had emphasized the importance of tranquility, moderation, and restraint.†   (source)
  • She notices that she is in a tranquil mood for the first time in quite a while.†   (source)
  • Looking out over the river brought an immediate sense of tranquility.†   (source)
  • The bartender was at the door, shooing his customers out; an old woman sat at the bar, tranquilly sipping gin; Vivaldo lay on his face in a pool of blood.†   (source)
  • Bujumbura sits alongside the tranquil waters of Lake Tan-ganyika, at the foot of a fissured mountain range that rises sharply out of the flats and glows orange on clear days, when the sun sets over Congo to the west.†   (source)
  • She stood, pulling her robe around her, and bent over to touch the baby's tranquil cheek.†   (source)
  • As the sun warmed me, the quick scratch of my pencil blended with the sound of rustling leaves, making a lovely, tranquil song.†   (source)
  • As I lined them up again, an annoying mechanical whine broke the morning's tranquility.†   (source)
  • Mortenson didn't want to disturb the tranquil scene with what he had to say.†   (source)
  • If we had a telescope, I could show you the Sea of Tranquility.†   (source)
  • She had a sensation of floating tranquilly in a cool whiteness high above the earth.†   (source)
  • She was so young and beautiful: calm, tranquil, and undisturbed except for the three crimson flowers of blood spread on her white chest.†   (source)
  • And in minutes, heavy with his meal, he was dozing, and Armand sat opposite me, his large, beautiful eyes tranquil and seemingly innocent.†   (source)
  • He learned the texture of her straight, dark hair, of her skin that was soft in the most hidden places and rough and callused everywhere else, of her fresh lips, her tranquil sex, and her broad belly.†   (source)
  • My sister gave me a tranquil look that I took to mean that she had already earned the approval of my family this morning and was safe for the rest of the day.†   (source)
  • We rowed past the old lighthouse, tranquil in the distance, which only last night had been the scene of so many traumas.†   (source)
  • But the tranquility of the night was false.†   (source)
  • Hema's face at dinner was as tranquil as I'd seen it since I became conscious of her at my bedside at Our Lady.†   (source)
  • It was mild—everything about him was calm—but Simon had the sense that the mildness hid something beneath it that belied his outward tranquility.†   (source)
  • The rains had left the smell of fresh earth, and a humid breeze passed silently and tranquilly through the grove of tall pines that surrounded the campus.†   (source)
  • One part sterile saline, two parts pentobarbital, two parts chlorpromazine, all adding up to nine cc's of tranquility.†   (source)
  • Its name is Tranquility Isle and the resort is called Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • But you who have always softened and warmed my heart, shall restore my benevolence as well as my health and tranquility of mind.†   (source)
  • The Gowdie garden would never again be a tranquil place for me.†   (source)
  • She's perfectly tranquil.†   (source)
  • Inside, he saw maidservants dusting and cleaning rooms whose rich appointments evoked a tranquil estate rather than some secret smuggler's den.†   (source)
  • Lee saw their ferocity, he their tranquility.†   (source)
  • There was a runaway luxuriance to the garden's ruined profusion that made it seem sinister instead of tranquil.†   (source)
  • I have often longed for peace and tranquility--looked into the lives of others and envied a kind of calmness--and yet I don't know if this tranquility is what I truly would have wished for myself.†   (source)
  • I tried once or twice to pick up the habit, in sympathy with my wife, so we could sit together by the windows in the heat and not talk and not always have to look at one another, to have those tranquil moments true smokers seem to share and secretly count on.†   (source)
  • "That's the Sea of Tranquility."†   (source)
  • The air at two thousand meters was so thin and tranquil that it seemed to be only a gloss of the light.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's the comfortable seat, or the golden glow flooding the train car as well as the tranquil countryside we're passing.†   (source)
  • Mutual financial obligations that don't yield an equal benefit disturb the tranquility of nations.†   (source)
  • Then a chilling burn began to grow on his cheeks, robbing him of the tranquility of unconsciousness.†   (source)
  • But Prof said tranquilly, "I find the proposed plans most interesting.†   (source)
  • They had operated in France many times before, even in tranquil Seraincourt, but never with the knowledge and approval of the French security service.†   (source)
  • In the thin light, even the whirling boomerang print of the vinyl tablecloth seemed tranquil; it was easy to imagine Helen sitting across from her, head bowed, asking forgiveness.†   (source)
  • And he gives me tranquil pills to take, one each day before I go to work for Mrs. McGovern.†   (source)
  • I took the early afternoon bus for Tuskegee, walked through a Southern town of great beauty and tranquility.†   (source)
  • For weeks, a handful of American troops, cut off and without communications, huddled on the narrow shore of the clear and tranquil lake while from the cliffs that tilted vertiginously over the beach Germans hit them day and night with plunging, enfilading fire.†   (source)
  • This is a dog of peace and tranquility.†   (source)
  • I would have to count on my ability to talk or lie my way out of it, if catching me in this breach of domestic tranquility was what the note's author had had in mind.†   (source)
  • I wish I could give you the faintest idea what peace, my friend, what unspeakable tranquility …†   (source)
  • Dead to himself, not to be a self any more, to find tranquility with an emptied heard, to be open to miracles in unselfish thoughts, that was his goal.†   (source)
  • She could feel him waiting, certain and tranquil, to take up his home in her when she decided.†   (source)
  • But she no longer had a moment to give him and took no notice of his mutterings except for turning to him now and then with a tranquil, puzzled look or bursting into her inimitable, candid, silvery laughter.†   (source)
  • [BERENGER, still listless without appearing to hear anything at all, replies tranquilly to JEAN about the invitation; his lips move but one doesn't hear what he says; JEAN bounds to his feet, knocking his chair over as he does so, looks off left pointing, whilst BERENGER, still a little dopey, remains seated.†   (source)
  • SOMETIMES at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together.†   (source)
  • Mostly Emily had asthma, and her breathing, harsh and labored, would fill the house with a curiously tranquil sound.†   (source)
  • The Noyes girl was busy building a camouflaged image with an old poem: The vast, sea and is out Glimmering calm in the stand, tonight, tranquil bay England The Come to the window of tide sweet is the night cliffs is air.†   (source)
  • In the long and endless dwellings that curved like tranquil snakes across the hills, lovers lay idly whispering in cool night beds.†   (source)
  • "Poor Dick," she said tranquilly, at last, from her recovered distance from him; and a flicker of terror touched her, an intimation of that terror which would later engulf her.†   (source)
  • The rain rushes suddenly down... Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind.   (source)
    tranquil = undisturbed
  • For the first time in over a year Dexter was enjoying a certain tranquility of spirit.   (source)
    tranquility = calm and undisturbed state
  • Richter's voice shattered the tranquility of the vault.†   (source)
  • She was generating her own little bubble of tranquility.†   (source)
  • It is a spot of tranquility and love in a turbulent world.†   (source)
  • 'He's a C.I.D. man,' Yossarian notified him tranquilly.†   (source)
  • You think it's funny to send me this—this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility?†   (source)
  • 'Sea of Tranquility' sounds like it should be someplace in the Bahamas."†   (source)
  • Or will another cause or country disturb our tranquility?†   (source)
  • And if my Sea of Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him.†   (source)
  • Her slender white neck preserves the dense tranquility of a handcrafted product.†   (source)
  • And our fragile domestic tranquility erupted with his outrage.†   (source)
  • Tranquility Inn, for all intents and purposes, was virtually shut down.†   (source)
  • There will be but not about here, not about Tranquility.†   (source)
  • "Because I'm guessing it wasn't the Sea of Tranquility."†   (source)
  • This is essential to both public faith and tranquility.†   (source)
  • Old Fontaine's walk through the grounds of Tranquility Inn had been precisely mapped out.†   (source)
  • Separation would injure the economy, tranquility, commerce, revenue, and liberty of every part.†   (source)
  • Tranquility's yours as long as you want to stay.†   (source)
  • Let us make a firm stand for our safety, our tranquility, our dignity, our reputation.†   (source)
  • Will it ban raising armies, as well as, to keeping them up in time of tranquility?†   (source)
  • Tranquility, your flying to Paris, Bernardine … everything!†   (source)
  • He saw the number in the Caribbean for Tranquility Inn, picked up the phone and dialed.†   (source)
  • The emperor could not preserve the unity and tranquility of the empire.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't have a house and I wouldn't have Tranquility Inn if it wasn't for him.†   (source)
  • Tranquility was sandwiched between Canada Cay and Turtle Rock.†   (source)
  • My schedule's so unsettled, but it seems I have a friend on Tranquility Isle.†   (source)
  • As of this noon he's got only one place to zero in on-Tranquility.†   (source)
  • "Is he a native?" asked the doctor, looking at the owner of Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • It's been barely an hour and Henry's got Tranquility ringed.†   (source)
  • It was the kind of sequence described by old Fontaine on Tranquility Isle.†   (source)
  • Yes, he would've," agreed the owner of Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • This is Mr. Pritchard, Tranquility Inn's associate manager.†   (source)
  • The owner of Tranquility Inn stared at his brother-in-law.†   (source)
  • The man known on Tranquility Isle as Jean Pierre .†   (source)
  • The owner of Tranquility Inn was determined that it live up to its name.†   (source)
  • He spun the numbers for the inn on Tranquility Isle.†   (source)
  • Krupkin turned to the owner of Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • You never saw Tranquility Inn, or did you?†   (source)
  • "A judge?" exploded the owner of Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • "Shut up," said the owner of Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • Become a tourist in Montserrat, a roving 'guest' at Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • It's an emergency, and I was given this number by the desk at Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • I was asking him to keep half an eye on Tranquility because I had to leave for a few days.†   (source)
  • I am faster than the mongoose and, like the mongoose, I know every foot trail on Tranquility.†   (source)
  • Something terrible had happened on the out island of Tranquility.†   (source)
  • They were back on Tranquility by now, and there was no safer place for them.†   (source)
  • I myself saw what happened at Tranquility Inn!†   (source)
  • From Tranquility to Washington, who did you speak to about Tannenbaum's?†   (source)
  • If it were true, the exercise on Tranquility Isle was child's play.†   (source)
  • A progressively less tentative peace returned to Tranquility Isle.†   (source)
  • Alex, tell me what happened on Tranquility!†   (source)
  • She saw how The Globe and Mail ruined my day—and it is so gorgeous, so peaceful on this island, on all this water; it's such a shame to not relax here, to not take the opportunity to think more tranquilly, more reflectively.†   (source)
  • Cecilia remained where she was, facing down the drive, tranquilly watching the car as it receded, but the tremors along the line of her shoulders confided she was crying, and Briony knew she had never loved her sister more than now.†   (source)
  • "Calmest it's been this week," he agreed, and for a while no one spoke, as if the three of them were honoring the water's tranquility with a moment of silence.†   (source)
  • She had learned to eat when she was already the respectable mother of a family, looking for a way for her children to eat better and not by means of any artificial stimulation of their appetites but through the absolute tranquility of their spirits.†   (source)
  • He radiated warmth and tranquility.†   (source)
  • "Go away," I say tranquilly.†   (source)
  • His tranquility was soon disrupted when a herd of unruly children dashed through the garden of a nearby house, shrieking with delight at their game of Catch-the-Cat, followed by a number of adults intent on snaring their respective charges.†   (source)
  • The plane rose up, up, as though loath to descend from this high tranquility; tilted, and Yves looked down, hoping to see the Statue of Liberty, though he had been warned that it could not be seen from here; then the plane began, like a stone, to drop, the water rushed up at them, the motors groaned, the wings trembled, resisting the awful, downward pull.†   (source)
  • "The summum bonum with me is now truly Epicurean, ease of body and tranquility of mind," he wrote, "and to these I wish to consign my remaining days."†   (source)
  • He walked up and down the terrace, taking in the expanse of the land around the house, sighing aloud at the thought of that exuberant nature which could assemble, in the most godforsaken country on the planet, mountains and sea, valleys and sky-scraping peaks, rivers of crystalline water, and a peaceful fauna that allowed you to wander tranquilly without having to worry about poisonous snakes or starving beasts.†   (source)
  • Houses of other centuries, gnarled trees, that sudden thick and silent tranquility which means that the masses are shut out; a handful of mortals inhabit this vast region of highceilinged rooms; stone absorbs the sound of breathing, the space of whole lives.†   (source)
  • Adams professed to be perfectly content in his new "employment," but how long this tranquility would continue, he could not honestly say.†   (source)
  • The old man waited tranquilly, watching him with a discerning smile that was both scornful and sympathetic.†   (source)
  • He was even warmly received on his return to the Senate, where, for the moment, a mood of "tranquility" had settled.†   (source)
  • "Your father," she told Thomas, "appears to enjoy tranquility and a freedom of care which he has never before experienced.†   (source)
  • Recalling the Jacobin threat to America, he accused Jefferson of having been "fast asleep in philosophical tranquility."†   (source)
  • I wish for peace and tranquility.†   (source)
  • If a federal government is supposed to regulate common concerns and preserve tranquility, it must have authority over the citizens.†   (source)
  • How he wished he had the time and "tranquility of mind" for "these elegant and ingenious arts of painting, sculpture, statuary, architecture, and music."†   (source)
  • This is a danger to public tranquility.†   (source)
  • "I conclude with sincere prayers for your health and happiness, that yourself and Mr. Adams may long enjoy the tranquility you desire and merit," Jefferson wrote, bringing to a conclusion his part in the exchange.†   (source)
  • A deficiency in courage would be fatal to the accused; a deficiency in credibility would be dangerous to the public tranquility.†   (source)
  • I think to christen my place Peacefield, in commemoration of the peace which I assisted in making in 1783, of the thirteen years peace and neutrality which I have contributed to preserve, and of the constant peace and tranquility which I have enjoyed in this residence.†   (source)
  • Modeling our political systems on speculations of lasting tranquility is to depend on the weaker springs of the human character.†   (source)
  • At the end of another long stretch at Quincy, Adams would write of a summer spent "so deliciously in farming that I return to the old story of politics with great reluctance," and Jefferson would profess that "tranquility becomes daily more and more the object of my life, and of this I certainly find more in my present pursuits than those of any other part of my life."†   (source)
  • Hopefully, their severe problems will create a revolution that will establish their union, making it the parent of tranquility, freedom, and happiness.†   (source)
  • …founded on a social compact: The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquility, their natural rights and the blessings of life; and whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government, and to take measures necessary for their safety, happiness, and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Yet as before, Adams remained reluctant to profess his love for her, though it was from the heart that he wrote:May Heaven permit you and me to enjoy the cool of the evening of life in tranquility, undisturbed by the cares of politics and war—and above all with the sweetest of all reflections that neither ambition, nor vanity, nor any base motive, or sordid passion through the whole course of great and terrible events that have attended it, have drawn us aside from the line of duty and…†   (source)
  • But the principal argument for giving the power of pardoning in this case to the Chief Executive is this: during times of insurrection or rebellion, there are often critical moments when a well-timed offer of pardon to the insurgents or rebels may restore the tranquility of the nation.†   (source)
  • It was carried by a courier to the second-floor Senate Chamber, where an astonished Vice President interrupted the business on the floor to read it aloud: Always disposed and ready to embrace every plausible appearance of probability of preserving or restoring tranquility, I nominate William Vans Murray, our minister resident at The Hague, to be minister plenipotentiary of the United States to the French Republic.†   (source)
  • For all of Tranquility's villas had kerosene lamps in the event of electricity loss and generator malfunction.†   (source)
  • The instant a shaken Gates left the room, Prefontaine went to the phone and called John St. Jacques at Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • "That's what we're doing here and that's what Henry's doing out on the water all around Tranquility."†   (source)
  • Bourne, his wound from Tranquility Isle now pulsating throughout his neck, did not increase his pace; he did not have to.†   (source)
  • St. Jacques burst through the bedroom door of the suite he had built for himself on the second floor of Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • The lights of Tranquility's beach drew nearer as John St. Jacques kept yelling into the microphone: "It's me!†   (source)
  • He saw the beach lights of Tranquility.†   (source)
  • They had reached the path to the chapel, the red and blue floodlights that lit up the entrance to Tranquility Inn's sealed off sanctuary.†   (source)
  • When we were in the hospital in Moscow, Alex frequently spoke of Tranquility Isle and Montserrat, so I checked the map in the hospital library.†   (source)
  • He has Crown boats, six or seven, running back and forth with orders to stop anyone leaving Tranquility.†   (source)
  • Gates had provided the essential information that led the would-be killers of the Webb family to Tranquility Isle.†   (source)
  • He kept screaming into his radio, the microphone weaving in front of his drenched face, hoping against all logic to raise someone on Tranquility.†   (source)
  • Three minutes later, holding his palm against his left ear, Jason had the unexpected comfort of hearing Tranquility Inn's most irritating employee over the phone.†   (source)
  • Marie sat on the balcony of her villa at Tranquility Inn staring out at the moonlit Caribbean, trying with every controlling instinct in her not to go mad with fear.†   (source)
  • Three military helicopters swooped down toward the Tranquility dock, fusillades of gunfire chewing up the shoreline as a powerful bullet speedboat swung through the reefs toward the beach.†   (source)
  • What's the Tranquility number?†   (source)
  • The governor's aide rose from the chair, wearing the ill-fitting jacket worn by Jason Bourne when he had flown back to Tranquility from Blackburne Airport.†   (source)
  • … I'll demand an immediate flight to Tranquility, and when I get here there'll be three pine coffins on the pier, supposedly containing my wife and children.†   (source)
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