quietude

• I am sure it must be a great blessing to you to bathe in that quietude, as it always is to us when we go out of reach of London influences and have the large space of country days to study, walk, and talk in When I am more at liberty I will certainly read Mr. Owen's books, if he is good enough to send them to me. —  The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
• She took the vacant seat with a sort of frozen quietude, and her limbs seemed to settle themselves rigidly into positions where they remained immovable Madeleine at once retired, knowing that her presence must be galling to the proud relative whom circumstance thus forced into contact with her; nor did she reënter the room again while the countess was there. —  Fairy Fingers A Novel
• He was a man almost stolid in his quietude, and his hurried entrance, and agitated manner, were sufficient to terrify Maurice and Madeleine before he spoke Mademoiselle, it was my fault! —  Fairy Fingers A Novel
• What agitation languidly My spirit and my blood doth move, What sad emotions o'er me steal When first upon my cheek I feel The breath of Spring again renewed, Secure in rural quietude-- Or, strange to me is happiness? —  Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
• Perfect quietude is all-essential to him. —  The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale

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