All 4 Uses of
tranquil
in
A Passage to India
- There seemed no reserve of tranquillity to draw upon in India.†
Chpt 7 *tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
- Either none, or else tranquillity swallowed up everything, as it appeared to do for Professor Godbole.†
Chpt 7
- Never tranquil, never perfectly dark, the night wore itself away, distinguished from other nights by two or three blasts of wind, which seemed to fall perpendicularly out of the sky and to bounce back into it, hard and compact, leaving no freshness behind them: the hot weather was approaching.†
Chpt 8
- He had tried to kill Mrs. Moore this evening, on the roof of the Nawab Bahadur's house; but she still eluded him, and the atmosphere remained tranquil.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
calm and undisturbed