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Example sentences for "quiescence"

Lexicographically close words:
quiera; quiere; quieren; quiero; quies; quiescent; quiet; quieta; quiete; quieted
  1. As environmental temperatures rise in summer, the period of mid-day quiescence is lengthened.

  2. If the deficiency of the stimulus of heat is very great, the quiescence becomes so general as to extinguish life, as in those who are frozen to death.

  3. So in fainting fits, or syncope, there is a temporary deficiency of sensorial exertion, and a consequent quiescence of a great part of the system.

  4. The longer in time and the greater in degree the quiescence or inertion of an organ has been, so that it still retains life or excitability, the less stimulus should at first be applied to it.

  5. We now step forwards to consider the other symptoms in consequence of the quiescence which begins the fits of fever.

  6. A state of perfect quiescence might have aroused suspicion; the noise I made completely lulled theirs to sleep.

  7. He never omitted the ceremony afterwards, and the gravity and quiescence with which I underwent it, seemed to invest it for him with a certain charm.

  8. For a moment longer, amidst the death-like quiescence of that old sleeping mansion, both continued silent, seated face to face in the closed chamber which the lamp illumined with a peaceful glow.

  9. Not a word, not a sound disturbed the mournful quiescence of the room, for although there were four or five lady visitors seated there they remained motionless and silent as with grief.

  10. You divine the vicinity of the Basilica, for there is a smell as of incense, a cloisteral quiescence as of the slumber of centuries.

  11. This change is regularly accompanied by a very distinct feeling of quiescence (a quieting or subduing feeling).

  12. Now, what manifests itself in this phase as the main thing is not the serene quiescence of the God in Himself, but appearance as such, being which is for another, self-manifestation.

  13. During the next two months (May and June 1907) only minor outrages and robberies were committed, but that quiescence was enlivened by two feats that set out in relief the coolness and unflinching courage of these desperados.

  14. Curious it is that absolute quiescence will puzzle the wildest of the wild!

  15. It seemed as if the quiescence of sea and air had fallen like a soft mantle on the party and subdued them into an unusually sluggish frame of mind.

  16. The only reason that I can see for the quiescence of this peak of Rakata is, as I said to you once before, that it stands not so much above the old crater as above and on the safe side of its lip.

  17. And it flashes out in your face still, until you draw that veil of dull quiescence over it.

  18. The quick anhelation, and palpitation of the heart, of those, who are immersed in cold water, depends on the quiescence of the external absorbent vessels and capillaries.

  19. As these medicines prevent torpor or quiescence of parts of the system, as cold hands or feet, which perpetually happen to weak constitutions, the subsequent increase of irritability of these parts is likewise prevented.

  20. Sickness of stomach is produced by the quiescence or inactivity of that organ, as is explained in Sect.

  21. In the former case there is an accumulation of sensorial power during the quiescence of the muscles now brought into action; which probably constitutes the pain or wearisomeness of a continued attitude.

  22. Consists in a quiescence or torpor of the mucous or salivary glands, and precedes their inverted motions, described in nausea humida, Class I.

  23. In the same manner as sickness of the stomach is a quiescence of that organ preceding the action of vomiting, as explained in Sect.

  24. After an interval of quiescence longer than any previous one the cholera again broke out among the pilgrims to Mecca in December, 1864.

  25. Their large quiescence and their habit of looming unexpectedly round corners shed a cloud upon the sunniest moment.

  26. In this era of noise and tear the splendid quiescence of great sculpture should provoke every creative mind.

  27. If, then, the pupae of the same species are so influenced by the temperatures of the seasons, can we limit or prolong the period of quiescence by subjecting them to high or low temperatures artificially produced?

  28. The Tenor's habitual quiescence seemed to have deserted him.

  29. In the girl, quiescence was the natural outcome of womanly reserve; in the Boy, it would have been mere affectation.

  30. This period of quiescence suited his talents perfectly, for it required of him little imagination, but great industry and force.

  31. Now came another period of quiescence in the war, but a period radically different in temper from the first.

  32. Between the world periods there are pauses of quiescence and at the end of these Śiva evolves the universe and souls.

  33. Except in the case of those who attain emancipation, its existence and transmigration last for a whole world-period at the end of which come quiescence and equilibrium.

  34. The doctrine that evolution, dissolution and quiescence succeed one another periodically is an integral part of the Sâṅkhya.

  35. When the Yogi has learnt to assume a permanent posture, he accustoms himself to regulate the acts of inspiration and expiration so as to prolong the period of quiescence between the two.

  36. The Yogi endeavours to bring them into quiescence by diverting them from those objects and directing them inwards.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quiescence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.