even tenor
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Walter George enjoys his role as the most powerful member of the 84th, and he has been able to maintain the even tenor of his ways.
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One of the reasons that this whole episode sort of disturbed the even tenor of my ways was that I thought: 'Well, now.
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A dramatic lapse, perhaps, but an exultant climax to the even tenor of sadness that pervades the book.
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And pleasantly surprised, because the briefer format is better adapted to carry the even tenor of sad beauty that pervades all of Mann's writings, and is unbearably sustained in his long novels.
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Well, they let him alone after that, and he pursued the even tenor of his way and increased in wisdom and stature and in favor—at least with man.
From Mortmain by Arthur Cheny Train
