All 10 Uses
tranquil
in
The Good Soldier
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- I can't believe that that long, tranquil life, which was just stepping a minuet, vanished in four crashing days at the end of nine years and six weeks.†
Part 1
- IV So began those nine years of uninterrupted tranquillity.†
Part 1 *tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
- I cannot, myself, help disliking this religion; there is always, at the bottom of my mind, in spite of Leonora, the feeling of shuddering at the Scarlet Woman, that filtered in upon me in the tranquility of the little old Friends' Meeting House in Arch Street, Philadelphia.†
Part 1tranquility = peace and quiet; or calmness
- They were to have spent two months more in that tranquil bosom, but inopportune events, apparently in her uncle's business, had caused their rather hurried return to Stamford.†
Part 2
- For, just before she came down the ladder, she called me to the top of that grotesque implement that I went up and down like a tranquil jumping-jack.†
Part 2
- The hills that surround Waterbury showed, extraordinarily tranquil, around the villa.†
Part 2
- He certainly loved her, but with a very deep, very tender and very tranquil love.†
Part 3
- It was a feeling so tranquil.†
Part 3
- She was aware of it from the way in which his eyes returned to doors and gateways; she knew from his tranquillities when he had received satisfactions.†
Part 3
- You must remember that at that moment I trusted in Edward and Leonora and in Nancy Rufford, and in the tranquility of ancient haunts of peace, as I had trusted in my mother's love.†
Part 4tranquility = peace and quiet; or calmness
Definitions:
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(1)
(tranquil) calm and undisturbed
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)