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 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)

Readers of Endymion will recognize a symbolic embodiment of a mood akin to this in the Cave of Quietude in the fourth book.

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

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

And his pneumogastrics tell him Quietude is always best When his little cerebellum Needs recuperative rest.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn