All 12 Uses of
tranquil
in
The American
- But his exertions on this particular day had been of an unwonted sort, and he had performed great physical feats which left him less jaded than his tranquil stroll through the Louvre.†
Chpt 1
- Christopher Newman was silent a moment, and then with a tranquil smile he answered, "Yes."†
Chpt 2 *
- In her whole person there was something both youthful and subdued, slender and yet ample, tranquil yet shy; a mixture of immaturity and repose, of innocence and dignity.†
Chpt 6
- He had been right at first in saying she was shy; her shyness, in a woman whose circumstances and tranquil beauty afforded every facility for well-mannered hardihood, was only a charm the more.†
Chpt 13
- His tranquil unsuspectingness of the relativity of his own place in the social scale was probably irritating to M. de Bellegarde, who saw himself reflected in the mind of his potential brother-in-law in a crude and colorless form, unpleasantly dissimilar to the impressive image projected upon his own intellectual mirror.†
Chpt 13
- Only three days had elapsed since she stood beside him in the starlight, beautiful and tranquil as the trust with which he had inspired her, and told him that she was happy in the prospect of their marriage.†
Chpt 18
- Newman renewed acquaintance with him, and learned that Valentin was still sleeping; the surgeon, who had had a fairly tranquil night, was at present sitting with him.†
Chpt 19
- Valentin de Bellegarde died, tranquilly, just as the cold, faint March dawn began to illumine the faces of the little knot of friends gathered about his bedside.†
Chpt 20
- The dull brick walls, which here and there made a grand, straight sweep; the ugly little cupolas of the wings, the deep-set windows, the long, steep pinnacles of mossy slate, all mirrored themselves in the tranquil river.†
Chpt 20
- "What paper is this you speak of?" asked the old lady, with an imitation of tranquillity which would have been applauded in a veteran actress.†
Chpt 24
- Newman shook his head a little, with a tranquil smile.†
Chpt 24
- He thought a great deal of Madame de Cintre—sometimes with a dogged tranquillity which might have seemed, for a quarter of an hour at a time, a near neighbor to forgetfulness.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(tranquil) calm and undisturbed