All 40 Uses of
tranquil
in
War and Peace
- —perhaps both, but evidently he did not wish to be seen in that mood, for hearing footsteps in the passage he hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable expression.†
Chpt 1 *
- I am going to bed with a happy and tranquil mind.†
Chpt 6
- I am so tranquil and happy now.†
Chpt 7
- The tranquil Ilagin, Nicholas, Natasha, and "Uncle" flew, reckless of where and how they went, seeing only the borzois and the hare and fearing only to lose sight even for an instant of the chase.†
Chpt 7
- "And do you know," she suddenly said, "I know that I shall never again be as happy and tranquil as I am now."†
Chpt 7
- She kept looking round in turn at the rows of pomaded heads in the stalls and then at the seminude women in the boxes, especially at Helene in the next box, who—apparently quite unclothed—sat with a quiet tranquil smile, not taking her eyes off the stage.†
Chpt 8
- All he cared about was gaiety and women, and as according to his ideas there was nothing dishonorable in these tastes, and he was incapable of considering what the gratification of his tastes entailed for others, he honestly considered himself irreproachable, sincerely despised rogues and bad people, and with a tranquil conscience carried his head high.†
Chpt 8
- To the family Natasha seemed livelier than usual, but she was far less tranquil and happy than before.†
Chpt 8
- …daughter's distress, and by the embarrassed faces of Sonya and Marya Dmitrievna, the count saw clearly that something had gone wrong during his absence, but it was so terrible for him to think that anything disgraceful had happened to his beloved daughter, and he so prized his own cheerful tranquillity, that he avoided inquiries and tried to assure himself that nothing particularly had happened; and he was only dissatisfied that her indisposition delayed their return to the country.†
Chpt 8
- And the consciousness that the insult was not yet avenged, that his rancor was still unspent, weighed on his heart and poisoned the artificial tranquillity which he managed to obtain in Turkey by means of restless, plodding, and rather vainglorious and ambitious activity.†
Chpt 9
- The autumn in Otradnoe with the hunting, and the winter with the Christmas holidays and Sonya's love, had opened out to him a vista of tranquil rural joys and peace such as he had never known before, and which now allured him.†
Chpt 9
- And the countess, trying to conceal the action from herself and from him, slipped a gold coin into his hand and always returned to the patient with a more tranquil mind.†
Chpt 9
- When the time comes to set to work I shall do it as no one else could, but now I can jest, and the more I jest and the calmer I am the more tranquil and confident you ought to be, and the more amazed at my genius.†
Chpt 10
- The one thing he wished for was rest, tranquillity, and freedom.†
Chpt 10
- …day alone did he write in a letter to Paris that "the battle field was superb," because fifty thousand corpses lay there, but even on the island of St. Helena in the peaceful solitude where he said he intended to devote his leisure to an account of the great deeds he had done, he wrote: The Russian war should have been the most popular war of modern times: it was a war of good sense, for real interests, for the tranquillity and security of all; it was purely pacific and conservative.†
Chpt 10
- Satisfied on these great points and with tranquility everywhere, I too should have had my Congress and my Holy Alliance.†
Chpt 10
- All was tranquil in the yard.†
Chpt 11
- …of the first of September, after his interview with Kutuzov, Count Rostopchin had returned to Moscow mortified and offended because he had not been invited to attend the council of war, and because Kutuzov had paid no attention to his offer to take part in the defense of the city; amazed also at the novel outlook revealed to him at the camp, which treated the tranquillity of the capital and its patriotic fervor as not merely secondary but quite irrelevant and unimportant matters.†
Chpt 11
- When later on in his memoirs Count Rostopchin explained his actions at this time, he repeatedly says that he was then actuated by two important considerations: to maintain tranquillity in Moscow and expedite the departure of the inhabitants.†
Chpt 11
- "To preserve the tranquillity of the city," explains Count Rostopchin.†
Chpt 11
- One need only admit that public tranquillity is in danger and any action finds a justification.†
Chpt 11
- All the horrors of the reign of terror were based only on solicitude for public tranquillity.†
Chpt 11
- On what, then, was Count Rostopchin's fear for the tranquillity of Moscow based in 1812?†
Chpt 11
- Lightly swaying on the flexible springs of his carriage and no longer hearing the terrible sounds of the crowd, Rostopchin grew physically calm and, as always happens, as soon as he became physically tranquil his mind devised reasons why he should be mentally tranquil too.†
Chpt 11
- Lightly swaying on the flexible springs of his carriage and no longer hearing the terrible sounds of the crowd, Rostopchin grew physically calm and, as always happens, as soon as he became physically tranquil his mind devised reasons why he should be mentally tranquil too.†
Chpt 11
- Having reached his country house and begun to give orders about domestic arrangements, the count grew quite tranquil.†
Chpt 11
- But Princess Mary experienced a painful rather than a joyful feeling—her mental tranquillity was destroyed, and desires, doubts, self-reproach, and hopes reawoke.†
Chpt 12
- But this happiness on one side of her spiritual nature did not prevent her feeling grief for her brother with full force; on the contrary, that spiritual tranquility on the one side made it the more possible for her to give full play to her feeling for her brother.†
Chpt 12
- Hard as she had tried to prepare herself, and now tried to remain tranquil, she knew that she would be unable to look at him without tears.†
Chpt 12
- No one else gives me that sense of soft tranquillity that you do…. that light.†
Chpt 12
- Tranquillity is returning to this capital and order is being restored in it.†
Chpt 13
- And just at this time he obtained the tranquillity and ease of mind he had formerly striven in vain to reach.†
Chpt 13
- He had long sought in different ways that tranquillity of mind, that inner harmony which had so impressed him in the soldiers at the battle of Borodino.†
Chpt 13
- Pierre caught a glimpse of a man in a three-cornered hat with a tranquil look on his handsome, plump, white face.†
Chpt 14
- And Napoleon, escaping home in a warm fur coat and leaving to perish those who were not merely his comrades but were (in his opinion) men he had brought there, feels que c'est grand, *(2) and his soul is tranquil.†
Chpt 14
- And the closer he looked the more tranquil and happy he became.†
Chpt 15
- Yes, yes…. so he grew tranquil and softened?†
Chpt 15
- She wanted nothing from life but tranquillity, and that tranquillity only death could give her.†
Chpt 15
- She wanted nothing from life but tranquillity, and that tranquillity only death could give her.†
Chpt 15
- If the conditions under which power is entrusted consist in the wealth, freedom, and enlightenment of the people, how is it that Louis XIV and Ivan the Terrible end their reigns tranquilly, while Louis XVI and Charles I are executed by their people?†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(tranquil) calm and undisturbed