All 10 Uses of
tranquil
in
The House of Mirth
- She began to cut the pages of a novel, tranquilly studying her prey through downcast lashes while she organized a method of attack.†
Chpt 1.2
- In reality, her thoughts were finding definite utterance in the tranquil recapitulation of the blessings in store for her.†
Chpt 1.4
- The fragrance of the late blossoms seemed an emanation of the tranquil scene, a landscape tutored to the last degree of rural elegance.†
Chpt 1.4
- The stroll soon resolved itself into a tranquil session on a bench overhung with laurel and Banksian roses, from which they caught a dazzle of blue sea between marble balusters, and the fiery shafts of cactus-blossoms shooting meteor-like from the rock.†
Chpt 2.1
- beneath a sky repossessed by the tranquil splendour of the moon.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- She had risen, and stood before him in a kind of clouded majesty, like some deposed princess moving tranquilly to exile.†
Chpt 2.3
- The green-shaded lamps made tranquil circles of light in the gathering dusk, a little fire flickered on the hearth, and Selden's easy-chair, which stood near it, had been pushed aside when he rose to admit her.†
Chpt 2.12
- Her real self had lain warm on his heart but a few hours earlier—what had he to do with this estranged and tranquil face which, for the first time, neither paled nor brightened at his coming?†
Chpt 2.14
- Gerty, strangely tranquil too, with the conscious self-control of one who has ministered to much pain, stood by the bed, speaking gently, as if transmitting a final message.†
Chpt 2.14
- They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity.†
Chpt 2.14
Definition:
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(tranquil) calm and undisturbed