even tenor
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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He would deny its very existence, or that of any other emotion that might upset the even tenor of his days.
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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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The peaceful, quiet, even tenor of his life had offered no lodgment for antagonisms.
From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
