All 7 Uses of
tranquil
in
Bleak House
- But now, when Tom cried, although she sat quite tranquil, looking quietly at us, and did not by any movement disturb a hair of the head of either of her little charges, I saw two silent tears fall down her face.†
Chpt 13-15
- I fancied she was dreaming of him when I kissed her cheek after she had slept an hour and saw how tranquil and happy she looked.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- I supposed she went away from the village, for I saw her no more; and nothing else occurred to disturb our tranquil summer pleasures until six weeks were out and we returned home as I began just now by saying.†
Chpt 22-24
- Charley's delight calmed mine; and after we had had a walk in the garden, and Charley had exhausted her whole vocabulary of admiring expressions, I was as tranquilly happy as I ought to have been.†
Chpt 34-36
- Its steeples and towers and its one great dome grow more ethereal; its smoky house-tops lose their grossness in the pale effulgence; the noises that arise from the streets are fewer and are softened, and the footsteps on the pavements pass more tranquilly away.†
Chpt 46-48
- What new occurrence is it that makes this tranquil old woman tremble so?†
Chpt 55-57
- …a pretty little orchard, where the cherries were nestling among the green leaves and the shadows of the apple-trees were sporting on the grass, to the house itself—a cottage, quite a rustic cottage of doll's rooms; but such a lovely place, so tranquil and so beautiful, with such a rich and smiling country spread around it; with water sparkling away into the distance, here all overhung with summer-growth, there turning a humming mill; at its nearest point glancing through a meadow by…†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(tranquil) calm and undisturbed