How To Use Quietness In A Sentence
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She is simply bartering goodies in return for comparative quietness.
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Behind that quietness his nerves are jangling, he's in a terrible state.
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‘Thou still unravished bride of quietness,’ he quoted.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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They create a blissful sense of quietness, pure melodic pop pleasure.
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I remember periods of quietness broken by screams and chants, followed by the shaking of bodies and the amens.
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The Bible has much to say about the merits of quietness.
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All the items presented have the purpose of pointing out how, in fact, “rural realities are influencing urban life” and how little by little the stressful urban existance will make room for the peace and quietness of the countrey-side.
Bathroom Fixtures from Toto, Oriental Charm at its Modern Best
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In returning and rest you shall be saved; and in quietness and hope shall be your strength.
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Uncertain how to interpret his quietness, she tried to figure out what to say.
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In my memory there is a stillness, a quietness about her that I can still feel, that is almost visible, even in the distance of many years.
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It was a fairly nice place, I didn't see anything wrong with it, apart from the quietness, I'm too used to all my city hustle and bustle I guess!
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The position of the house combines quietness and convenience.
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One benefit applies to all the mind and body therapies, whether active or passive: A stillness, quietness, or rhythmicity helps create a flow, a centering effect, and a sense of calm.
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A delicate wing, gauzy and transparent, spread in her hands, spanning her fingers, its lacy intricacy provoking a thoughtful quietness, a sad wistfulness.
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The quietness of the day was interrupted by a loud explosion.
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The children themselves, who came along for a snack of polony a bright pink, toxic-looking lunch meat that they all seemed to love and cheese, had the unnatural quietness of kids who had spent too much of their lives sick and in pain.
No Place Left to Bury the Dead
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And where this love takes place there is peace and quietness, a true correspondence, perfect amity, a diapason of vows and wishes, the same opinions, as between [4574]
Anatomy of Melancholy
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And Mr.C. clasped me in his arms and called me his 'guardian angel;' and all I have to pay for this restoration of peace and quietness is giving a lesson three times a week, in syllables of two letters, to a small Irish boy!
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness.
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Her quietness got under my skin.
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This was true on the present occasion, when at different times the pack-beasts went on a "shindy" that upset all calculations and scattered packs far and wide, causing a general alarm and hard work on the part of all hands to restore quietness and order.
American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt
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In the light of the tragic event, he could understand everything -- her quietness, that calm certitude as if all vexing questions of living had been smoothed out and were gone, and that certain ethereal sweetness about all that she had said and done that had been almost maternal.
Chapter XII
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The music is as challenging and spontaneous as ever, only now they're exploring quietness the way they once indulged in loudness.
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I do very much appreciate the quietness and privacy here.
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A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness.
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Apparently this quietness was achieved by using ‘sound-deadening materials, additional door seals and acoustic glass’.
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A loud whistle disturbed the quietness of the church.
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These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.
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Most people also describe an intense quietness, except for thunder that may accompany the ash fall, giving a "deadness" to the normal sounds of life.
What's it like during an ash fall?
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The climacteric stage of the mere exercise of reason is displayed in Stoicism, an ethical system which aims primarily not at virtue but at happiness, although this theory inculcates that happiness can be attained only through "ataraxia" (inward quietness or peace of mind), while this can only be gained by virtue.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
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There was never a better citizen, nor more affected to the welfare and quietnesse of his countrie, nor a sharper enemie of the changes, innovations, newfangles, and hurly-burlies of his time: He would more willingly have employed the utmost of his endevours to extinguish and suppresse, than to favour or further them: His minde was modelled to the patterne of other best ages.
Of Friendship.
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Behind that quietness his nerves are jangling, he's in a terrible state.
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And, as he now realises, it was not so much selectorial doubts holding him back (although his quietness was distrusted).
Times, Sunday Times
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I know that I, myself, would rather see a "still unravished bride of quietness, a foster child of silence a slow time" than an old jug any day.
Big Fish
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His quietness worried her.
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The position of the house combines quietness and convenience.
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A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness.
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The mouth had not quite relinquished rotundity of curve for the firm angularities of middle life; and the eyes, though keen, permeated rather than penetrated: what they had lost of their boy-time brightness by a dozen years of hard reading lending a quietness to their gaze which suited them well.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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After the relative quietness of the last hour or so, the house suddenly seemed full of activity.
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The position of the house combines quietness and convenience.
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I had too much adrenaline to answer back Carlozio who had taken advantage of my quietness and was barraging me with the most annoyance he could muster.
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Her quietness and simplicity puzzled reporters - but won her a very deep respect.
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Orwell composed that novel of aching remembrance in torrid Morocco, so I make no apology for saying that McEwan put me in mind, twice, of John Keats as he gazed on the work of ancient Attica: “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness/Thou foster-child of silence and slow time.”
Think of England
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The quietness and usual manner of speaking and looking of Dr. Orkborne, which he had remarked, removed any immediate apprehensions from the assertions of Jacob and Mary; but still he did not like the suggestion; and the carrying off so many books, when he acknowledged he did not mean to read one of them, disturbed him.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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The quietness doesn't promise the coming of an exuberant crowd.
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The quietness of the morning was broken by the whirlwind that usually accompanied Rebecca's appearance into the room.
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Your photographs exude a certain quietness, beauty and intensity which makes them outstanding in my opinion.
Liliana Rodrigues: Behind the Lens of Dutch Photographer Anton Corbijn
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I miss the quietness of the countryside.
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unbent," as Harry said, and joined in the mirth; and Janet had enough to do to reason them into quietness when bed-time came.
Janet's Love and Service
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This is a continuous blast, until the eye of the hurricane reaches you and you get half and hour or so of deadly quietness.
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The quietness surrounded them.
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All was quietly ended by the curate; and Don Fernando paid the whole sum, although the judge had also most liberally offered to do it; and all of them remained afterwards in such quietness and peace, as the inn did no longer resemble the discorded camp of Agramante, as Don Quixote termed it, but rather enjoyed the very peace and tranquillity of the Emperor Octavians time; for all which the common opinion was, that thanks were justly due to the sincere proceeding and great eloquence of master curate, and to the incomparable liberality and goodness of Don Fernando.
The Fourth Book. XIX. In Which Is Finished the Notable Adventure of the Troopers, and the Great Ferocity of Our Knight, Don Quixote, and How He Was Enchanted
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With a voice oscillating between organ-like thunder and strangled quietness, Gambon brings out Hamm's terminal desperation.
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Then after a day full of excitement and sightseeing, you will no-doubt appreciate all the comfiness, quietness and cosiness of our rooms and all their facilities.
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With quietness they work - Μετα ἡσυχιας· With silence; leaving their tale-bearing and officious intermeddling.
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In trust and quietness is the salvation of the pious from all foes and all their devices.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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He is exploring the idea of "volubility," the opposite of quietness.
NPR Topics: News
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I insist on quietness.
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Pardon me," he said, with a quietness that struck the company with a becalming awe.
Old Ebenezer
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It was his quietness which disconcerted her.
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It is a natural reserve, a tardiness of disposition, "which often leaves the history unspoke which it intends to do;" a subdued quietness of deportment and expression, a veiled shyness thrown over all her emotions, her language and her manner; making the outward demonstration invariably fall short of what we know to be the feeling within.
Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
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There was space between the tables to move and breathe, easy light, quietness without a deathly hush.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was space between the tables to move and breathe, easy light, quietness without a deathly hush.
Times, Sunday Times
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In another scene of reading Keats hails an urn as a "still unravished bride of quietness
Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound
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He set off at a slow walk, through the empty moonlit streets, an eerie quietness surrounding them.
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This doesn't really excuse my quietness on the blogging front, but it goes part-way to explaining it.
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A quietness followed my outburst; even the chickens stopped clucking and tilted their heads in alarm briefly.
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Her quietness, simplicity and complete disregard for the publicity hounds of the West puzzled reporters - but won her a very deep respect.
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It is an ordinary place marked by its striking simplicity and quietness.
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Try to reserve a small oasis of quietness and time to relax instead. Emotional well-being is even more precious than time.
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Behind that quietness his nerves are jangling, he's in a terrible state.
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It is the best best place for developing talents in quietness and peace.
The Powerful Equation of Love
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There was space between the tables to move and breathe, easy light, quietness without a deathly hush.
Times, Sunday Times
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A quietness followed my outburst; even the chickens stopped clucking and tilted their heads in alarm briefly.
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A cranky old man who scolds children for making noise violates with his loud voice the very quietness he upholds.
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A loud whistle disturbed the quietness of the church.
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Meals, tea and other traditions (this family being from South-East Asia) form part of the glue which holds them all together - What a shame society and families at large have forgotten the importance of coming together (whether in quietness or celebration) to enjoy the simple things of life - no need for high-tech, imagination-killing technology or crude worldly intrusions vainly attempting to pass themselves off as "entertainment".
A Handful of Quiet
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Cate noticed his quietness and wondered what was bothering him.
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Passengers rate the spaciousness and the quietness of the vehicle very highly.
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There was an old log and she sat down wearily, just glad of the quietness and the peace of her surroundings.
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A quietness followed my outburst.
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A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness.
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A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness.
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The quietness and comfort of life in the siheyuan gives Dominic a lot of inspiration.
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Despite the saturated hues, a quietness, partially the result of craft, characterizes the sculpture.
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A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness.
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We are leaving behind us a place of quietness and peace.
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I do very much appreciate the quietness and privacy here.
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On the one hand, her calm quietness is admired, but others carp that she is colourless and dull.
The Sun
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At five or six he closes his desk, and leaves his office or counting-room, and betakes himself home; and it is to be hoped that then at least he enjoys his dinner in quietness and peace.
A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding
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After iverybody had getten supplied ther wor quietness for abaat five minutes, an 'altho' nobdy wanted owt to ait, fatty cakes an 'buttered muffins went aght o'th' seet like winkin.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
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I know that I, myself, would rather see a “still unravished bride of quietness, a foster child of silence a slow time” than an old jug any day.
Big Fish | Her Bad Mother
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This sound level is very commendable as quietness is something strived for by many users today.
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His quietness now, it occurred to her, was the quietness of the interviewer, biding, perhaps insidious.
COUP D'ETAT
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They are also unnerved by the quietness.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the quietness of home and school, university had been almost frightening.
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I think that his quietness on the subject was the thing that bothered me most.
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The stillness and the quietness of the house is excruciating.
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I wuz a-hopin 'dat now you hab a time ob peace en quietness, en you des gwine ter be s'pended 'twixt hebin en yearth.
Miss Lou
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Rather, through his pleonastic use of quietness, Mahler seems here to score a parody of sentimentality.
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He noticed the quietness of the table, and the expectant gazes of all those around him.
