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  • I tried to conjure Ali's frozen face, to really see his tranquil eyes, but time can be a greedy thing—sometimes it steals all the details for itself.†   (source)
  • "Her face was made of heavenly smiles and her voice of tranquil music," Douglass wrote.†   (source)
  • Roy was in an eerie yet tranquil daze.†   (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)
  • We walked to the crest of a low bluff overlooking a broad, slow-moving expanse of water, clearly the choicest spot in this most tranquil of settings.†   (source)
  • But Spencer was happy to follow in her sister's footsteps in this case, since they led out to the tranquil, light-flooded guesthouse where Spencer could escape her parents and their constantly barking labradoodles.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The media screens all flickered the same tranquil scene ....a Roman sky illuminated with brilliant stars.†   (source)
  • I stood up and stretched and looked across the highway at the river, so tranquil, its water as blue as the sky.†   (source)
  • His expression was of tranquil incomprehension.†   (source)
  • Returning to her desk, she turned on her audio interface for some tranquil background music.†   (source)
  • It's so still, it's so peaceful, it's so perfectly tranquil.†   (source)
  • And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too will end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.†   (source)
  • It seemed tranquil, a very safe public spot.†   (source)
  • It's an old, weathered face, bearded, tranquil looking as though it sleeps.†   (source)
  • Anyway, once you came out to the pond, you'd find a tranquil atmosphere waiting, with ducks and bulrushes and pond-weed.†   (source)
  • They lapsed into tranquil silence.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Before me was a wide tranquil river, and near the middle of that river was a child splashing, screaming ... Drowning!†   (source)
  • A tranquil Republic?†   (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)
  • He turns onto a remote, tranquil block between Ninth and Tenth Avenues.†   (source)
  • Their marriage never had been tranquil.†   (source)
  • Our world will return to the former state of tranquility we enjoyed before all this nonsense.†   (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)
  • And in minutes, heavy with his meal, he was dozing, and Armand sat opposite me, his large, beautiful eyes tranquil and seemingly innocent.†   (source)
  • She was generating her own little bubble of tranquility.†   (source)
  • The others were not as tranquil: Jesus turning the moneychangers from the temple, Moses throwing the Tablets down upon the worshipers of the golden calf, Thomas the doubter putting his hand in Christ's wounded side (oh, the horrified fascination of that one and the nightmares it had given her as a girl!)†   (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)
  • I could hear nothing, I could see no one, everything seemed tranquil.†   (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)
  • But the tranquility of the night was false.†   (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)
  • Norah thought of Sam's bedroom, the riot of colors there, and how tranquil this seemed in contrast, the colors stable, fixed, falling through the air.†   (source)
  • She notices that she is in a tranquil mood for the first time in quite a while.†   (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)
  • She had a sensation of floating tranquilly in a cool whiteness high above the earth.†   (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)
  • As I lined them up again, an annoying mechanical whine broke the morning's tranquility.†   (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)
  • Looking out over the river brought an immediate sense of tranquility.†   (source)
  • He exhaled, scanning the tranquil sea.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Mortenson didn't want to disturb the tranquil scene with what he had to say.†   (source)
  • We rowed past the old lighthouse, tranquil in the distance, which only last night had been the scene of so many traumas.†   (source)
  • That's the Sea of Tranquility.†   (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)
  • Lee saw their ferocity, he their tranquility.†   (source)
  • Its name is Tranquility Isle and the resort is called Tranquility Inn.†   (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)
  • But Prof said tranquilly, "I find the proposed plans most interesting.†   (source)
  • The air at two thousand meters was so thin and tranquil that it seemed to be only a gloss of the light.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She's perfectly tranquil.†   (source)
  • Then a chilling burn began to grow on his cheeks, robbing him of the tranquility of unconsciousness.†   (source)
  • If we had a telescope, I could show you the Sea of Tranquility.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Mutual financial obligations that don't yield an equal benefit disturb the tranquility of nations.†   (source)
  • SOMETIMES at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together.†   (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)
  • There was a runaway luxuriance to the garden's ruined profusion that made it seem sinister instead of tranquil.†   (source)
  • This is a dog of peace 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)
  • I took the early afternoon bus for Tuskegee, walked through a Southern town of great beauty 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)
  • And he gives me tranquil pills to take, one each day before I go to work for Mrs. McGovern.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She could feel him waiting, certain and tranquil, to take up his home in her when she decided.†   (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)
  • 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
  • The tranquil Fogg waited, without betraying any emotion.   (source)
    tranquil = calm
  • This, spoken in a cool, tranquil tone, was mortifying and baffling enough.   (source)
  • I advise you to live sinless, and I wish you to die tranquil.   (source)
    tranquil = peacefully
  • the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day's sun;   (source)
    tranquil = peaceful
  • By nine o'clock the next morning I was punctually opening the school; tranquil, settled, prepared for the steady duties of the day.   (source)
    tranquil = calm
  • Mr. Rochester came thrice to my door in the course of it, to ask if I was safe and tranquil: and that was comfort, that was strength for anything.   (source)
    tranquil = undisturbed
  • and the more absolute her superiority, the deeper would have been my admiration — the more truly tranquil my quiescence.   (source)
    tranquil = calm (without being disturbed)
  • I am not very tranquil in my mind.   (source)
    tranquil = calm
  • It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquillity was no more.   (source)
  • The library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sibyl — if Sibyl she were — was seated snugly enough in an easy-chair at the chimney-corner.   (source)
    tranquil = peaceful
  • Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.   (source)
    tranquil = unworried
  • With little Adele in my arms, I watched the slumber of childhood — so tranquil, so passionless, so innocent — and waited for the coming day: all my life was awake and astir in my frame: and as soon as the sun rose I rose too.   (source)
    tranquil = peaceful
  • I felt a conscientious solicitude for Adele's welfare and progress, and a quiet liking for her little self: just as I cherished towards Mrs. Fairfax a thankfulness for her kindness, and a pleasure in her society proportionate to the tranquil regard she had for me, and the moderation of her mind and character.   (source)
    tranquil = steady (free from disturbance)
  • I did not like re-entering Thornfield. To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation; to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome staircase, to seek my own lonely little room, and then to meet tranquil Mrs. Fairfax, and spend the long winter evening with her, and her only, was to quell wholly the faint excitement wakened by my walk,   (source)
    tranquil = calm
  • "I believe you will accept the post I offer you," said he, "and hold it for a while: not permanently, though: any more than I could permanently keep the narrow and narrowing — the tranquil, hidden office of English country incumbent; for in your nature is an alloy as detrimental to repose as that in mine, though of a different kind."   (source)
    tranquil = peaceful and undisturbed
  • I went on with my day's business tranquilly; but ever and anon vague suggestions kept wandering across my brain of reasons why I should quit Thornfield;   (source)
    tranquilly = calmly and undisturbed
  • And yet it is said the Rochesters have been rather a violent than a quiet race in their time: perhaps, though, that is the reason they rest tranquilly in their graves now.   (source)
  • Her own fortune she had taken care to secure; and when her mother died — and it was wholly improbable, she tranquilly remarked, that she should either recover or linger long — she would execute a long-cherished project: seek a retirement where punctual habits would be permanently secured from disturbance, and place safe barriers between herself and a frivolous world.   (source)
    tranquilly = calmly
  • Beneath his bulletproof windows—they had been forced upon him by his chief—lay the intersection of the rue de Grenelle and the tranquil little rue Amelie.†   (source)
  • The grove settled into tranquility, as if satisfied with the death sentence it had given me.†   (source)
  • Richter's voice shattered the tranquility of the vault.†   (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)
  • Her slender white neck preserves the dense tranquility of a handcrafted product.†   (source)
  • And if my Sea of Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him.†   (source)
  • The emperor could not preserve the unity and tranquility of the empire.†   (source)
  • 'Sea of Tranquility' sounds like it should be someplace in the Bahamas.†   (source)
  • Tranquility was sandwiched between Canada Cay and Turtle Rock.†   (source)
  • You think it's funny to send me this—this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility?†   (source)
  • It's an emergency, and I was given this number by the desk at Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • This is essential to both public faith and tranquility.†   (source)
  • Because I'm guessing it wasn't the Sea of Tranquility.†   (source)
  • They were back on Tranquility by now, and there was no safer place for them.†   (source)
  • Will it ban raising armies, as well as, to keeping them up in time of tranquility?†   (source)
  • Let us make a firm stand for our safety, our tranquility, our dignity, our reputation.†   (source)
  • That's what we're doing here and that's what Henry's doing out on the water all around Tranquility.†   (source)
  • I myself saw what happened at Tranquility Inn!†   (source)
  • Or will another cause or country disturb our tranquility?†   (source)
  • Separation would injure the economy, tranquility, commerce, revenue, and liberty of every part.†   (source)
  • "Is he a native?" asked the doctor, looking at the owner of Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • Yes, he would've," agreed the owner of Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • I was asking him to keep half an eye on Tranquility because I had to leave for a few days.†   (source)
  • Krupkin turned to the owner of Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • It was the kind of sequence described by old Fontaine on Tranquility Isle.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't have a house and I wouldn't have Tranquility Inn if it wasn't for him.†   (source)
  • Alex, tell me what happened on Tranquility!†   (source)
  • The owner of Tranquility Inn was determined that it live up to its name.†   (source)
  • My schedule's so unsettled, but it seems I have a friend on Tranquility Isle.†   (source)
  • I am faster than the mongoose and, like the mongoose, I know every foot trail on Tranquility.†   (source)
  • As of this noon he's got only one place to zero in on-Tranquility.†   (source)
  • It's been barely an hour and Henry's got Tranquility ringed.†   (source)
  • "A judge?" exploded the owner of Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • The man known on Tranquility Isle as Jean Pierre .†   (source)
  • Tranquility's yours as long as you want to stay.†   (source)
  • Become a tourist in Montserrat, a roving 'guest' at Tranquility Inn.†   (source)
  • Tranquility Inn, for all intents and purposes, was virtually shut down.†   (source)
  • He saw the number in the Caribbean for Tranquility Inn, picked up the phone and dialed.†   (source)
  • The owner of Tranquility Inn stared at his brother-in-law.†   (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)
  • Something terrible had happened on the out island of Tranquility.†   (source)
  • You never saw Tranquility Inn, or did you?†   (source)
  • There will be but not about here, not about Tranquility.†   (source)
  • From Tranquility to Washington, who did you speak to about Tannenbaum's?†   (source)
  • This is Mr. Pritchard, Tranquility Inn's associate manager.†   (source)
  • Old Fontaine's walk through the grounds of Tranquility Inn had been precisely mapped out.†   (source)
  • Tranquility, your flying to Paris, Bernardine ...everything!†   (source)
  • He spun the numbers for the inn on Tranquility Isle.†   (source)
  • "Shut up," said the owner of Tranquility Inn.†   (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)
  • 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 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)
  • When he spoke, often she ° 't answer him, and one could hardly tell if it was contempt or that she didn't hear....And our fragile domestic tranquility erupted with his outrage.†   (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 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "Go away," I say tranquilly.†   (source)
  • He radiated warmth and tranquility.†   (source)
  • Recalling the Jacobin threat to America, he accused Jefferson of having been "fast asleep in philosophical tranquility."†   (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)
  • The old man waited tranquilly, watching him with a discerning smile that was both scornful and sympathetic.†   (source)
  • Adams professed to be perfectly content in his new "employment," but how long this tranquility would continue, he could not honestly say.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I wish for peace and tranquility.†   (source)
  • Modeling our political systems on speculations of lasting tranquility is to depend on the weaker springs of the human character.†   (source)
  • This is a danger to 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)
  • If a federal government is supposed to regulate common concerns and preserve tranquility, it must have authority over the citizens.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Hopefully, their severe problems will create a revolution that will establish their union, making it the parent of tranquility, freedom, and happiness.†   (source)
  • A tone of absolute clarity and elevated thought was established in the opening lines, in a Preamble, a new feature in constitutions, affirming the old ideal of the common good 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)
  • 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)
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