quietude

Example Sentences

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Quietude doesn’t exactly come naturally, nor would most around Hanks want it to.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2019

Quietude fell from the loft ceiling; the quietude of a middle-class household gathered in concord around their fireside.

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile

Quietude for a few moments, and one after another the flowers emerge, at first furtively but gathering courage in full vanity, until the buff rock becomes as radiant as a garden bed.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Quietude of custody, rather, befitting their station in that house, the vigilant watch of shepherds and of angels about a crib in Bethlehem of Juda long ago.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

One of the most striking and original of these pieces of figurative psychology studied from his own moods is the description of the Cave of Quietude in Book IV:—

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney