All 15 Uses of
tranquil
in
Light in August
- Behind her the four weeks, the evocation of far, is a peaceful corridor paved with unflagging and tranquil faith and peopled with kind and nameless faces and voices: Lucas Burch?†
Chpt 1
- Its doggedness has a soft quality, an inwardlighted quality of tranquil and calm unreason and detachment.†
Chpt 1 *
- Her voice is quiet, tranquil, stubborn.†
Chpt 1
- He watched her eat, again with the tranquil and hearty decorum of last night's supper, though there was now corrupting it a quality of polite and almost finicking restraint.†
Chpt 1
- She tells him, in his turn, sitting on the towsack pad, heavybodied, her face quiet and tranquil, and he watching her as quietly; telling him more than she knows that she is telling, as she has been doing now to the strange faces among whom she has travelled for four weeks with the untroubled unhaste of a change of season.†
Chpt 2
- The woman sits on the towsack pad, interested, tranquil.†
Chpt 2
- He saw her for the first time, without surprise, having apparently materialised out of thin air, motionless, with that diamondsurfaced tranquillity which invested her with a respectability as implacable and calm as the white lifted glove of a policeman, not a hair out of place.†
Chpt 9tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
- And by day he would see the calm, coldfaced, almost manlike, almost middleaged woman who had lived for twenty years alone, without any feminine fears at all, in a lonely house in a neighborhood populated, when at all, by negroes, who spent a certain portion of each day sitting tranquilly at a desk and writing tranquilly for the eyes of both youth and age the practical advice of a combined priest and banker and trained nurse.†
Chpt 12tranquilly = calmly and undisturbed
- And by day he would see the calm, coldfaced, almost manlike, almost middleaged woman who had lived for twenty years alone, without any feminine fears at all, in a lonely house in a neighborhood populated, when at all, by negroes, who spent a certain portion of each day sitting tranquilly at a desk and writing tranquilly for the eyes of both youth and age the practical advice of a combined priest and banker and trained nurse.†
Chpt 12
- And all the while her calm profile in the peaceful firelight was as grave and tranquil as a portrait in a frame.†
Chpt 12
- Her face was lifted, almost with pride, her attitude of formal abjectness a part of the pride, her voice calm and tranquil and abnegant in the twilight.†
Chpt 12
- She will have to have others, more remembering the young strong body from out whose travail even there shone something tranquil and unafraid.†
Chpt 17
- The good stock peopling in tranquil obedience to it the good earth; from these hearty loins without hurry or haste descending mother and daughter.†
Chpt 17
- Again she draws the sheet closer, modest and tranquil, while above her the gaunt, paunched, bald man stands with an expression on his face gentle, beaming, and triumphant.†
Chpt 17
- Thinking goes quietly, tranquilly, flowing on, falling into shapes quiet, not assertive, not reproachful, not particularly regretful.†
Chpt 20tranquilly = calmly and undisturbed
Definition:
calm and undisturbed