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Definition
calm and undisturbed
- I am not very tranquil in my mind.Chapter 11 (3% in)
tranquil = calm and undisturbed
- I was silent; Helen had calmed me; but in the tranquillity she imparted there was an alloy of inexpressible sadness.Chapter 8 (29% in)
- It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquillity was no more.Chapter 10 (19% in)
- It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquillity was no more.Chapter 10 (20% in)
- 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.Chapter 11 (89% in)
- ...and looking far down, I surveyed the grounds laid out like a map: the bright and velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the trees were with foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day's sun; the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.Chapter 11 (91% in)
- 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.Chapter 12 (7% in)
- It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.Chapter 12 (16% in)
- 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, — to slip again over my faculties the viewless fetters of an uniform and too still existence; of an existence whose very privileges of security and ease I was becoming incapable of...Chapter 12 (84% in)
- I tried again to sleep; but my heart beat anxiously: my inward tranquillity was broken.Chapter 15 (64% in)
- 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; and I kept involuntarily framing advertisements and pondering conjectures about new situations: these thoughts I did not think to check; they might germinate and bear fruit if they could.Chapter 17 (3% in)
- If Miss Ingram had been a good and noble woman, endowed with force, fervour, kindness, sense, I should have had one vital struggle with two tigers — jealousy and despair: then, my heart torn out and devoured, I should have admired her — acknowledged her excellence, and been quiet for the rest of my days: and the more absolute her superiority, the deeper would have been my admiration — the more truly tranquil my quiescence.Chapter 18 (37% in)
- 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.Chapter 19 (0% in)
- 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.Chapter 21 (73% in)
- 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.Chapter 23 (99% in)
- 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.Chapter 25 (98% in)
- I advise you to live sinless, and I wish you to die tranquil.Chapter 27 (78% in)
- 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.Chapter 28 (6% in)
- But my night was wretched, my rest broken: the ground was damp, the air cold: besides, intruders passed near me more than once, and I had again and again to change my quarters; no sense of safety or tranquillity befriended me.Chapter 28 (46% in)
- "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."Chapter 30 (60% in)
- I have hardly had time yet to enjoy a sense of tranquillity, much less to grow impatient under one of loneliness.Chapter 31 (39% in)
- By nine o'clock the next morning I was punctually opening the school; tranquil, settled, prepared for the steady duties of the day.Chapter 32 (14% in)
- This, spoken in a cool, tranquil tone, was mortifying and baffling enough.Chapter 35 (16% in)
- It seemed I could hear all that was to come — whatever the disclosures might be — with comparative tranquillity.Chapter 36 (60% in)
There are no more uses of "tranquil" in Jane Eyre.
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