All 17 Uses of

tranquil

in

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Without hesitation, I identified his dominant qualities—self–confidence, since his head reared like a nobleman's above the arc formed by the lines of his shoulders, and his black eyes gazed with icy assurance; calmness, since his skin, pale rather than ruddy, indicated tranquility of blood; energy, shown by the swiftly knitting muscles of his brow; and finally courage, since his deep breathing denoted tremendous reserves of vitality.†
Chpt 1

…of this boat has the rigidity of iron; no rigging to be worn out by rolling and pitching on the waves; no sails for the wind to carry off; no boilers for steam to burst open; no fires to fear, because this submersible is made of sheet iron not wood; no coal to run out of, since electricity is its mechanical force; no collisions to fear, because it navigates the watery deep all by itself; no storms to brave, because just a few meters beneath the waves, it finds absolute tranquility!†
Chpt 1

It's the most tranquil of the seas; its currents are wide and slow–moving, its tides moderate, its rainfall abundant.†
Chpt 1 *

A coral grave is a tranquil grave, and may Heaven grant that my companions and I rest in no other!†
Chpt 1

Arriving within a few cable lengths of the cetacean, our longboat slowed down, and the sculls dipped noiselessly into the tranquil waters.†
Chpt 2

But will Master tell me why this huge smelter suspended operations, and how it is that an oven was replaced by the tranquil waters of a lake?†
Chpt 2

Now then, this second arm—more accurately, a collar—forms a ring of warm water around a section of cool, tranquil, motionless ocean called the Sargasso Sea.†
Chpt 2

More tranquil and less fearful than their northern relatives, they posted no sentinels on guard duty at the approaches to their campsite.†
Chpt 2

Herds of these different mammals were playing about in the tranquil waters, and I could easily see that this Antarctic polar basin now served as a refuge for those cetaceans too relentlessly pursued by hunters.†
Chpt 2

All the tranquil glimmers of the ice walls had then changed into blazing streaks.†
Chpt 2

But once there, what tranquility we found, what silence, what peace all around us!†
Chpt 2

I looked to port and saw nothing but the immenseness of these tranquil waters.†
Chpt 2

In the midst of this placid natural setting, sky and ocean competed with each other in tranquility, and the sea offered the orb of night the loveliest mirror ever to reflect its image.†
Chpt 2

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