All 24 Uses
tranquil
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A Soldier of the Great War
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- Still trotting, breathless, and tapping, he emerged from the Villa Borghese onto a long wide road that went up a hill and was flanked on either side by a row of tranquil buildings with tile roofs from which the light reflected as if it were a waterfall cascading onto broken rock.†
Chpt 1
- I'm speaking of a helpless, tranquil state before the great excitement of dawn.†
Chpt 1
- If you look west you'll see a tranquil line just beyond the hills.†
Chpt 1
- Whether or not this was true, they believed that no better shield of tranquillity existed than an empire on land.†
Chpt 1tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
- Giotto's blues and Caravaggio's shadows had been united to portray a tranquil forest in neither night nor day but, rather, in a condition of the spirit.†
Chpt 2
- The air at two thousand meters was so thin and tranquil that it seemed to be only a gloss of the light.†
Chpt 2 *
- The harvest, the sun, and the October light had made Italy a chain mail of fields, their richness and tranquillity shattered only by the railway, and even then, after the trains had passed through, contentment would close-in the way cold blue water fills the trough made by an oar.†
Chpt 3tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
- Painting is tranquil and appeals direcdy to heart and soul.†
Chpt 5
- When you realize that everyone is not much different from the stuff that's listed on the sides of bottles of mineral water, death takes on an air of tranquillity.†
Chpt 5tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
- The beauty of the lakes, the forest, and the stretches of tranquil blue sky gently took the army out of Alessandro.†
Chpt 6
- They would take his father home, get him out of the room that was now a ward of the dying, allow him once again some sunlight and tranquillity.†
Chpt 6tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
- Now, TO dream, he did not have to sleep, but merely to consider, and he would find himself in tranquil scenes where action was so delicate it could cross memory and leave no track.†
Chpt 6
- I'm now sufficiently tranquil not to have to convince anyone of anything.†
Chpt 6
- Will you be tranquil in front of the firing squad?†
Chpt 6
- Alessandro was overcome by the sound of the rifles loading, but then all was tranquil, and in the silence before the fusillade he heard Guariglia say, "God keep my children."†
Chpt 6
- Bullets won't touch me if my office is tranquil.†
Chpt 7
- Though the glare hurt the back of their eyes, and they were quickly sunburnt, they felt like the angels who inhabit the cool air above a flume, and who, with nothing to do but sing, give to the water its tranquil and hypnotic sound.†
Chpt 7
- The proportions of the field made it seem particularly spacious and tranquil.†
Chpt 8
- There they rise, purple, gray, and black, into an angry wall that the setting sun paints in tranquil gold.†
Chpt 9
- A cold and tranquil rain came after the lightning, and lasted until dark.†
Chpt 9
- Tranquillity doesn't exist.†
Chpt 9tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
- As the rain approached, the light seemed both tranquil and doomed.†
Chpt 9
- The saffron-colored walls, softened by time, were a great shield for memory and tranquillity.†
Chpt 10tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
- The dominant colors are green and gold: green, of course, being the color of nature, and gold the divine and tranquil color of which, like perfection, so little exists.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(tranquil) calm and undisturbed
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)