How To Use Quietude In A Sentence
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There were even some among them who did not dance at all, but only felt an involuntary impulse to allay the internal sense of disquietude, which is the usual forerunner of an attack of this kind, by laughter, and quick walking carried to the extent of producing fatigue.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
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Or does his quietude imply he is a crafty opportunist hoping the crown will fall into his lap?
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In the height of this charming exercise, it entered my mind to make a kind of prognostic, that might calm my inquietude; I said, "I will throw this stone at the tree facing me; if I hit my mark, I will consider it as a sign of salvation; if I miss, as a token of damnation.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau
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Her father's visit to the US stirs up the unwanted memories and brings disquietude.
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The rubicund moon-head goes wagging; darker beams the copper visage, like unscoured copper; in the glazed eye is disquietude; he rolls uneasy in his seat, as if he meant something.
The French Revolution
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In fact, freed of the crushing exactions laid upon them by a Rome always eager to bribe its vast, unproductive military class into quietude, they may even have been left to enjoy more of the fruits of their own labors than usual.
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All wrong for the drink that writer E.B. White called the elixir of quietude.
Shake Or Stir, But Please Don't Sweeten
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They are always kind and considerate, provided only these persons possess that unpresuming quietude of manner, which makes up a considerable part of that character they delight in, and which they call _safe_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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This many people liking something completely secular creates disquietude among the pew-cramming masses.
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The all-pervasive reservations and donations system too adds to the youths' inquietude.
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And therefore, restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto the present considerations seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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Its stature resides in its quietude and simplicity, yet with an inner energy which reflects a lifetime's contemplation of the harmonies of art.
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Frustrated and agitated, he dreams of the ‘inquietude and anger’ of his murdered friend.
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Even worse, the disquietude grows when we learn of the unavoidability of certain occurrences, such as our Earth becoming engulfed by a dying sun, or a massive comet colliding head-on with catastrophic consequences.
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My husband and I looked at each other till we burst into tears, and our children observing our disquietude began to cry bitterly.
Five Best: Susan J. Matt
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They also don't cleave to the imagined Japan of old, which occurs to us as a blur of cherry blossoms and hedge gardens, scented with vaguely detected aromas of honor, humility, feudalism, solicitousness, and quietude.
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Mourners deserve to honour their loss in peace, quietude and with due respect,’ he went on.
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In the end, regretfully, I chose none of them, preferring instead two books I read quite frequently, one for its astonishing use of language and the other for the haunting quietude of its tale.
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I believe, however, that the Milanese are the least priest-ridden people even in young Italy, and they keep Sunday with far more reverence and quietude than elsewhere, and in France.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
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They are under a frightful apprehension of guilt and wrath, that they cannot enjoy themselves; when they seem settled they are in disquietude, when they seem merry they are in heaviness; like Cain, who always dwelt in the land of shaking.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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But another and different kind of disquietude kept them waking too.
Dombey and Son
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Being compelled, at last, to retire without their object -- though not without threatening Catherine with the thumbikins, if she persevered in refusing to discover her lover's retreat -- the family of Barjarg was once more left to enjoy its wonted quietude and peace.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17
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Because of this quietude, the rustle in the brush behind me sounded like a shot through the lazy summer air.
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And nothing illustrates so plainly the inquietude of his mind as his strange, disjointed narration of his relationship with his father.
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It can also imply a recovery from some kind of slump or period of quietude.
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He stood a moment with a look of pious quietude on his face.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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A sense of strength and quietude is always what I take away from your writing.
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These terms rid Natura of a great part of that insupportable constraint he had been under, but gave not the least satisfaction, as to his jealousy of honour; he doubted not but she would be guilty of many things, injurious in the highest degree to their public character, and which yet it would not so well become him to exert his authority in opposing, and these reflections gave him the most terrible inquietude; which shews, that though _jealousy_ is called the child of _love_, it is very possible to feel all the tortures of the
Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
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No more bombs fell from the windows, the last pedestrians seemed to have vanished from the streets, and our immediate quietude grew more profound; though the gigantic caldron continued to bubble in the distance, dull roars of explosions came to us from all directions, and the smoke-pillars were towering more ominously in the heavens.
Chapter 22: The Chicago Commune
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Quietude is the crown of life.
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A roadside apartment is not a pleasant prospect, but once you're inside the gates of the complex, it is an oasis of quietude, with immaculate, mature tropical gardens offset by a large, unheated outdoor pool.
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He listened to his father in silence, and attempted not any defense, which confirmed her in fearing that the inquietude of his mind, on Isabella's account, might, by keeping him long sleepless, have been the real cause of his rising late.
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Its old brick buildings, clustered beneath bare trees, had the hush of a convent, a quietude to dispel the pain within.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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The feminist disquietude was not alleviated by the new rabbi's first pre-Yom Kippur sermon.
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To love only to seek - on condition of never finding - to want only disquietude, that is to hate truth.
ProLifeBlogs
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As the evening comes on, an incomprehensible feeling of disquietude seizes me, just as if night concealed some terrible menace toward me.
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It should be noted, however, that this relative calm - save for the murmur of conversation between old friends and new acquaintances across the long tables - was in itself the source of a certain inquietude.
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Quietude is a similarly becalmed sonic vista of placid sine-waves, nervous clicks and lithe atmospheric details.
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These beginnings of summer, always so alike, deluded me into thinking that in spite of my occasional fears my childhood would be indefinitely prolonged; but I no longer felt "joy at waking;" a sort of disquietude, such as oppresses one when he has left his duty undone, weighed upon me more and more heavily each morning when I thought that time was flying, that the vacation would soon be over, and that I still lacked the courage to come to a decision in regard to my future.
The Story of a Child
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He comes out of the house, having disposed all things duteously and fittingly round the dead, and Balaustion sees in his grave quietude that the truth is dawning on him; when suddenly Pheres, his father, who had refused to die for him, comes to lay his offering on the bier.
The Poetry Of Robert Browning
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The apes bare the fierceness of their fangs, and their barks and snarls pierce the quietude of the forest.
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It seemed to creep up on the neighborhood like a old tabby who suddenly appears underfoot, purring and mewing blossoms of quietude after the winter winds.
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'And, therefore, restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories with present considerations seems a vanity out of date, and a superannuated piece of folly.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
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Still, at the heart of this mania for things American, perhaps more unconscious than conscious, is a deep disquietude.
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In many of his poems the poet reflects on the quietude of the countryside.
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Council is a reflective activity with roots in Quaker and Native American traditions, a time for all to come together for some common quietude, some seriousness, and for the sharing of deeper feelings.
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‘Chaukhandi’ stupa today stands neatly set in lush green lawns, wrapped in the quietude and mystique of history, a fitting introduction to the splendours of the once buried city of Sarnath which lies just ahead.
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Rather, he expressed his moral disquietude about a long-ago decision that traded on class status.
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The persistent experience of disquietude in the book returns us to Said's appeal for ‘unending disclosure, discovery, self-criticism, and liberation’ as the basis of a critical humanism - and art.
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Opening his eyes halfway, Raeyn laboriously pulled up an electronic mail window on his computer and dictated a message to Antony, providing an outlet for his disquietude and tension.
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It seems openly talking about sexuality, especially women's sexuality, creates disquietude among the masses.
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In this case also, we are not really in a place of solitude or quietude, except in a superficial sense.
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At least golf has its moments of quietude as well, so it wasn't that bad.
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This level of restraint, even quietude, is marked throughout the installation - the design is distinguished by what it doesn't do, as much as what it does.
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Si l'homme n'a rien au - dessus de la bete, que ne coule-t-il ses jours comme elle, sans souci, sans inquietude, sans degout, sans tristesse, dans la felicite des sens et de la chair?
She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.
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These terms rid Natura of a great part of that insupportable constraint he had been under, but gave not the least satisfaction, as to his jealousy of honour; he doubted not but she would be guilty of many things, injurious in the highest degree to their public character, and which yet it would not so well become him to exert his authority in opposing, and these reflections gave him the most terrible inquietude; which shews, that though _jealousy_ is called the child of _love_, it is very possible to feel all the tortures of the
Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
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She has achieved a state of quietude and equanimity.
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Again, as in other pieces, the autumn poem uses quietude, fine enjambment and spacing, to convey the weight of the branches, the dying process.
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I ask again, trying to laugh off the disquietude the question has created.
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Given the disquietude, substance abuse is an easy lure, as is the pressure for early sexual activity.
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Its old brick buildings, clustered beneath bare trees, had the hush of a convent, a quietude to dispel the pain within.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Charles says that it was some comfort to him to have frightened them, at least; but he was so candid to me as to own that from the beginning of this emeute he could not perceive in me the least expression of fear or disquietude whatever, and that, to be sure, he did not like.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
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Only it had worn him down, until, eventually, he discovered that what he really wanted was peace and accordance, stability and a degree of quietude.
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If a man gain the use of wealth, peradventure he is diverted thereby from the remembrance of his Lord; if poverty choke him his heart is distracted by woe, or if disquietude waste his heart, weakness causeth him to fall.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He notes, with some disquietude, the decline in publication of case studies of smaller communities, where most nineteenth-century Americans lived and worked.
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In the end, regretfully, I chose none of them, preferring instead two books I read quite frequently, one for its astonishing use of language and the other for the haunting quietude of its tale.
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The endermic exhibition of morphia may also be resorted to for the purpose of relieving the pain incident to the wound, of preventing the development of tetanic symptoms, and of securing quietude and sleep to the patient.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
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Aucune inquietude ni des parents (notre Pinku ne fout rien normal c un gros fainéant), ni du medecin 'tu es jeune c pour ca que tu besoin de beaucoup de sommeil' tout ca malgres les plainte intempestive du Pinku ... mais on s'en fout de c'que tu dis gros molasson!
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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Played with a kind of wrathful quietude by the exquisite Eric Bana,
Comicbookbin.com
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Again, as in other pieces, the autumn poem uses quietude, fine enjambment and spacing, to convey the weight of the branches, the dying process.
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As the evening comes on, an incomprehensible feeling of disquietude seizes me, just as if night concealed some terrible menace toward me.
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J'y constatais d'abord, qu'une inquiètude nous attendait à tout spectacle auquel nous assistions et qu'une déception à peu près ineffable accompagnait toujours la chute du rideau.
Pélléas and Mélisande
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One would not imagine her WASP nervous system is sufficiently developed to register disquietude, but one would be mistaken.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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That mental inquietude will impede digestion is a fact familiar to almost every one; but, I believe, it is not so generally known, that it will with no less certainty retard and alter the nature of the secretion furnished by the breasts of the lactescent female.
Remarks on the Subject of Lactation
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It is that strange disquietude of the Gothic spirit that is its greatness; that restlessness of the dreaming mind, that wanders hither and thither among the niches, and flickers feverishly around the pinnacles, and frets and fades in labyrinthine knots and shadows along wall and roof, and yet is not satisfied, nor shall be satisfied
Archive 2007-03-01
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But I have another source of disquietude which is unaccompanied with any alleviating circumstances.
Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian
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I have said that the poem's spirit might be called ‘contemplative’, which always implies some degree of quietude.
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It is that strange disquietude of the Gothic spirit that is its greatness; that restlessness of the dreaming mind, that wanders hither and thither among the niches, and flickers feverishly around the pinnacles, and frets and fades in labyrinthine knots and shadows along wall and roof, and yet is not satisfied, nor shall be satisfied.
Archive 2008-04-01
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The knowledge of this reality and the inquietude that the study would reveal the mysteries that the city keeps in secret were the basic reactors that made me take this interesting trip trough the pages of Berlin's history.
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‘Oh, God,’ Tash said, unable to hide her disquietude.
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The second cause of his disquietude was the jealous hatred of Madame Campvallon toward the young rival she had herself selected.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Each one of us should take some time out for ourselves and sit in total quietude,’ he points out.
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I also remember as an elementary school student in the late 1970s that an assignment from my teacher caused me great disquietude and anxiety.
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Ollivier, the Prime-Minister, said openly: "The Government has no kind of disquietude; at no epoch has the maintenance of peace been more assured; on whatever side you look, you see no irritating question under discussion.
The Duel Between France and Germany
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Because of this quietude, the rustle in the brush behind me sounded like a shot through the lazy summer air.
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The ‘grace’ that the young priest may bring to others - and, in the end, to himself - is quietude of soul, a kind of acceptance of what it is, as it is, in each case.
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We are already in the twentieth century with its restlessness, its inquietude, ‘the age of anxiety’.
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‘Chaukhandi’ stupa today stands neatly set in lush green lawns, wrapped in the quietude and mystique of history, a fitting introduction to the splendours of the once buried city of Sarnath which lies just ahead.
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Bessy's features seemed to shrink into a kind of waxen quietude -- as though her face were seen under clear water, a long way down.
The Fruit of the Tree
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It is not the social disaster which we hark back to, but the emotive response - the existential repose and quietude with which men confronted their impending doom.
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My siblings and I had often rebelled against this time of quietude as young children, but as grew older, it became sacred to us.
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In the cuttings from the American papers which you have sent me I have read with great disquietude an article which says that, after all, the
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index
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For Ted these were periods of inconceivable joy and quietude.
BEHINDLINGS
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Beyond the lobby is the auditorium and beyond that a sculpture garden, a lovely oasis of quietude at the rear of the lot.
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No heart will be left unsatisfied; no spirit will mourn in unrequited love, for that happy region is the abode of love – of love without the defilements or the disquietudes of mortality, for there it is an everlasting, pure enjoyment.
The Scottish Chiefs
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But the loudest devotional song may bless the students to do their best, but it will surely not provide them the blissful quietude of early morning study that can make that extra difference in their examination preparation.
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The grounds are spacious and invite the visitor to enjoy the quietude or share a picnic lunch with the whole family.
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But unmixed hydromel, rather than the diluted, produces frothy evacuations, such as are unseasonably and intensely bilious, and too hot; but such an evacuation occasions other great mischiefs, for it neither extinguishes the heat in the hypochondria, but rouses it, induces inquietude, and jactitation of the limbs, and ulcerates the intestines and anus.
On Regimen In Acute Diseases
