All 5 Uses of
tranquil
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- ONE week of authentic spring, one rare sweet week of May, one tranquil moment between the blast of winter and the charge of summer.†
Chpt 12 *
- Essentially, I think, you are like myself, Carol; you want to go back to an age of tranquillity and charming manners.†
Chpt 16tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
- In her tranquillity she let the words blow by and heeded only the beating wings of his voice.†
Chpt 33
- Whenever she was restless she dodged her thoughts by the familiar vagabond fallacy of running away from them, of moving on to a new place, and thus she persuaded herself that she was tranquil.†
Chpt 34
- As they walked through Lafayette Square, looking past the Jackson statue at the lovely tranquil facade of the White House, he sighed, "I wish I'd had a shot at places like this.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
calm and undisturbed