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)

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

Quietude reigns; a tendril or twig is occasionally threaded or poked into the nests.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

For, never since thy griefs and woes began, Hast thou felt so content: a grievous feud550 Hath let thee to this Cave of Quietude.

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John