All 17 Uses of
tranquil
in
Look Homeward, Angel
- This starched and well brushed world of Sunday morning Presbyterianism, with its sober decency, its sense of restraint, its suggestion of quiet wealth, solid position, ordered ritual, seclusive establishment, moved him deeply with its tranquillity.†
Chpt 1 *tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
- It was the most tranquil and the most passionate face he had ever seen.†
Chpt 2
- She was like some great general, famous, tranquil, wounded unto death, who, with his fingers clamped across a severed artery, stops for an hour the ebbing of his life—sends on the battle.†
Chpt 2
- Well, it looks mighty funny to me he hasn't been in to see you," said Eliza, with enormous accusing tranquillity.†
Chpt 2tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
- At these moments, after battle, after all the confusion, antagonism, and disorder of their lives had exploded in a moment of strife, they gained an hour of repose in which they saw themselves with sad tranquillity.†
Chpt 2
- At first he had, under the doctor's treatment, periods of tranquillity when he almost believed himself well.†
Chpt 2
- The tranquil, incessant thunder of the sea made in them a lonely music.†
Chpt 2
- He was almost tranquil when they wheeled him in to his operation.†
Chpt 2
- Her big face was for a moment tranquil and eager.†
Chpt 2
- Its unaccustomed faith, its abiding tranquillity, puzzled and disturbed the Gants.†
Chpt 2tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
- Never before had he been so aware of her enormous tranquil patience, the great health of her spirit.†
Chpt 3
- What he had drunk beat pleasantly through his veins in warm pulses, bathing the tips of ragged nerves, giving to him a feeling of power and tranquillity he had never known.†
Chpt 3tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
- When they had left him, the boy tried to picture them lulled in the dulcet tranquillity they so often invoked.†
Chpt 3
- He thought quietly, with relief, with tranquil joy.†
Chpt 3
- All that he had read in books, all the tranquil wisdom he had professed so glibly in his philosophy course, and the great names of Plato and Plotinus, of Spinoza and Immanuel Kant, of Hegel and Descartes, left him now, under the mastering surge of his wild Celtic superstition.†
Chpt 3
- They were filled with a deep and tranquil affection for each other: they talked without constraint, without affectation, with quiet confidence and knowledge.†
Chpt 3
- Ben, clad in his best suit of clothes, a neat one of dark grayblack, lay in rigid tranquillity upon a table.†
Chpt 3tranquillity = peace and quiet; or calmnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use tranquility.
Definition:
calm and undisturbed