It is well to remember that both the Puritans and their clergy had a quiet way of believing that God had reserved to himself the final interpretation of his own word.
We are now in the season of Lent, and our towns and villages were very still and quiet during these weeks.
In the quiet days of peace and security in which we live it is difficult to imagine such a time of excitement as that at which our story opens, in the summer of 1813.
Tell me, Joe," said Sam after the black boy had become somewhat quiet again, "tell me all about this thing.
The shadow of the elms was sweet on the road; the smooth quiet of the grounds, railed off from worldly business and care, seemed proper only to the houses of peace which stood upon them.
Mr. Richmond said tenderly, as Matilda burst into quiet tears again.
She was forced to keep a quiet face and sit obediently mending her difficult piece of lace; and the child's heart was in great turmoil.
Norton stood in the doorway while she read, looking out and looking in, very quiet; and Mrs. Eldridge sat and listened and gave tremulous shakes of her old head, and was very quiet too.
Not so passionately as the time before; yet with quiet earnestness.
He recovered only to hear the carriage drive away, leaving quiet behind it.
If you will not see me, why then did you walk into my quiet house, and turn everything upside down?
In the meantime, you must keep asquiet as you can, John," I said.
Stay by him, talk to him, and keep him as quiet as you can.
It was he, indeed, who took us to a quiet little hotel he knew; and when we were comfortably settled in it, he began to take the lead in all our plans.
Turning to the plaintiff, the judge saw his personal appearance was altered for the worse; but before he could put any questions, the defendant went on to say that they had found a quiet yard to settle it in, as His Honour had suggested.
Soon all was quiet, and I stole in to see Paul lying as quiet as a child with a smile on his face.
Just pieces of stuff in rows, rows of tidy little puffs, perhaps one bit just unrolled, quiet tickets.
Mr. Rusper had been at home reading a number of tracts upon Tariff Reform, during the quiet of his wife's absence in church, and trying to work out the application of the whole question to ironmongery.
You are quiet today," she said as they sat down to tea.
Her expression of scrutiny gave way to a quiet satisfaction.
The narration at Mr. Polly's elbow pursued a quiet but relentless course.
It was so queer and quiet mannered that the sight of it held Mr. Polly agape.
All night, Fate, with the quiet complacency, and indeed at times the very face and gestures of Johnson, guided him towards that undesired establishment at the corner near the station.
It impressed him that they were always in a kind of quiet hurry, and very determined and methodical people,--much more so than any English he knew.
A door opened over the way, and an elderly gentleman in a kind of embroidered fez appeared smoking a pipe with a quietsatisfied expression.
They were not so much thinking as lost in a smooth, still quiet of the mind.
His quiet was broken by daily affronts and lampoons.
It was foretold by no oracles, and ushered by no portents; but was brought about by thequiet and reiterated exercise of God's first gift of common sense.
The quiet atrocity of Sparta did not shock him in the same manner; for he hated tumult more than crimes.
It excited all the passions of a stormy democracy in the quiet and listless population of an overgrown empire.
But neither has power sufficient to keep the other in quiet subjection for a month.
We can't do anything, and may as well keep quiet here," said Mark, looking at his watch and beginning to understand that the joke was rather a serious one.
It was kep' quiet at the time, and is forgotten now by all but a few old chaps like me.
Several of the younger lads were playing marbles on the sidewalk, for Hop Scotch, Leap Frog, and friendly scuffles were going on in the yard, and no quiet spot could be found.
A red glow in the east banished my last fear, and, wrapping the drapery of my couch about me, I soon lay down to quiet slumber, quite worn out.
Being very tired, I soon fell asleep; but fried potatoes and a dozen or two of hot clams are not viands best fitted to insure quiet repose, so a fit of nightmare brought me to a realizing sense of my indiscretion.
I knew at once who it was, and enjoyed the funny message immensely; for when one leads a quiet life, little things interest and amuse.
A gentleman in want of a saddle-horse purchased me because my easy gait and quiet temper suited him; for I was meek enough now, and my size fitted me to carry his delicate daughter.
Such a capital idea, and just what is needed; a quiet place, where one can come and be made pretty without all the world's knowing how we do it.
The little gray gown went, and the red hood, the warm socks, and the cosey wraps no longer needed by the quietsleeper under the snow.
Respect for his late master might have kept him quiet the night before the funeral.
Anything for a quiet life," was his constant saying; and, like the generality of people with whom those words form a favorite maxim, he led the most uneasy life imaginable.
We will send off Audrey to be nursemaid to the babies, and--and you and I will have a nice quiet time at home alone!
Yet, after all, though sad, it was veryquiet and simple.
Will you try and keep the house as quiet as possible, Miss Audrey, please?
Wherever in Ghosts we have quiet voices that are like the slow drip of hydrochloric acid, in the photoplay we have no quiet gestures that will do trenchant work.
And while the fortune of her people is most desperate she is shown in the quiet shelter of the tent of Holofernes.
Though in a quiet tent, and on the terms of love, it is the essential warfare of the hot Assyrian blood and the pure and peculiar Jewish thoroughbredness.
She is austerely garbed, at prayer for her city, in her own quiet house.
He was about to call to arms, when, casting his eyes on the right flank of the crusaders, he saw that all remained quiet after the Frank Baron had transferred himself from thence.
You are no soft Eastern, fair maid, and I presume you will find yourself under no difficulty in managing a quiet horse?
There he kept him secretly in a quiet chamber, and brought unto him such as had been trusty servants to his father, not all at, once, but apart by one and one, for fear of discoverie.
Achilles indeed glided into the presence with the easy and quiet extremity of respect which intimated his habitude in these regions.
He is quiet now, and if not again disturbed, will soon sleep again.
It is further manifest out of Prosper, that the Hunns were in quiet possession of Pannonia in the year 432.
But this is a plain mistake: for it is certain that the Emperor Theodosius left the Empire entire; and we have shewed out of Prosper, that the Hunns were in quiet possession of Pannonia in the year 432.
Before this war the Vandals had remained quiet forty years in the seats granted them in Pannonia by Constantine the great.
While these nations remained quiet within the Empire, subject to the Romans, many others continued so beyond the Danube till the death of the Emperor Theodosius, and then rose up in arms.
Empire remained quiet from foreign armies, till his death, A.
Empire by league and compact; and coangustatas, because they did no longer invade all regions at pleasure, but by the same compact remained quiet in the seats then granted them.
One day in the airing-yard of the prison a woman who was usually quiet in her behaviour made a sudden attack on another who had been admitted to prison on the preceding day.
X 23 was a lad of good character, quiet in his manner, well educated, and employed in a position of trust.
The patient is quiet and on his guard, and his examiner can make nothing of him.
He was quite quiet at the time and she thought it an ugly kind of joke, as he woke her to make the proposal; but she explained it to herself on the ground of overwork and sleeplessness.
She is quiet and well-behaved in prison, and is of fair intelligence, but on liberation she resorts to the lowest haunts and indulges in such excesses that when brought back to prison she is in terror of death, she feels so ill.
His schoolmaster informed me that the boy was usually quiet and tractable, but did not take much interest in most of his work.
The prison surprises visitors by its quiet and by the conspicuous cleanliness which is its characteristic feature.
I had told him to follow; therefore, unable to pull up sharply, he swept past, and did not stop until we were round the bend in the quiet suburban road and thus out of sight.
Therefore, fearing to be observed if I followed the pair along those quiet thoroughfares, I turned on my heel, and half an hour later left Chelmsford for Maldon.
They engaged a rather obese old Frenchwoman as housekeeper, and there they led a quiet life, engrossed apparently in literary studies.
From the warm manner of his greeting it was apparent that he was charmed by her, and together they strolled along the quiet byways, she allowing him to link his arm in hers.
A good many quiet flirtations were in progress too.
I was present at the quiet wedding out at Melun in the first days of 1909, being the bearer of a costly present in the form of a pretty diamond pendant, as well as a dozen pairs of sixteen-button-length kid gloves from an anonymous donor.
Yes--a few things that came to me by accident,' said Jim in quiet tones.
Had I conceived how much satisfaction, quiet and even leisure, I should have enjoyed at separate quarters, I would have taken them six months ago.
The coast appeared opposite him in the great mirror; nothing but houses without roofs, whose tiers of terraces towered higher and higher, and the orchestra was waiting impatiently up above in a quiet kiosk with a broken stone cupola.
And finally Anna Rosner's tall quiet figure appeared to him, leaning on the piano, with the score in her hand, and her smiling blue eyes turned towards the keys, and he even heard her voice reverberating in his soul.
They were now all standing in the broad quiet light of the arc-lamps.
The best thing to do was to be alone in some quiet beautiful country-side, to rest himself fully and recuperate for new work.
Was he not far more cut out for adventures of that kind than for the quiet life full of responsibilities which he had chosen for himself?
Old Stauber directed a quiet look towards his son, which the latter answered with equal quietness.
The superior officers are mostly quiet people, at any rate they are correct and.
We would stay at some quiet place where no one knows us, in a beautiful hotel with enormous grounds.
Felician came up to George, and while the latter leant with both hands on the sill the elder brother remained upright and swept over street, park and town with one of his proud quiet glances.
As I was waiting in the hall for a good occasion, a man with horsehair on his head, and a long blue bag in his left hand, touched me gently on the arm, and led me into a quiet place.
My mother had made that little cut jerkin, in thequiet winter evenings.
Gwenny's nose was touched with frost, before we had gone much farther, because she would not keep it quiet and snug beneath the sealskin.
Two women were scolding one another across the road, very violently, both from upstair windows; and I in my hurry for quiet life, and not knowing what might come down upon me, quickened my step for the nearest corner.
Deep in the quiet valley there, away from noise, and violence, and brawl, save that of the rivulet, any man would have deemed them homes of simple mind and innocence.
For the lady owned a quiet mansion in the neighbourhood of that town, and her one desire was to find refuge there, and to meet her lord, who was sure to come (she said) when he heard of his new infant.
I cannot see the things I quest for of a world beyond me; I cannot join the peace and quiet of the depth above me; neither have I any pleasure in the brightness of the stars.
So the sound of the quiet swinging led us very modestly, as it came and went on the wind, loud and low pretty regularly, even as far as the foot of the gibbet where the four cross-ways are.
Everybody looked at mother, to hear her talk like that, knowing how quiet she was day by day and how pleasant to be cheated.
Those lucent splendours of the Holy Spirit Grew quiet then, but still within the standard That made the Romans reverend to the world.
Already were Gualterotti and Importuni; And still more quiet would the Borgo be If with new neighbours it remained unfed.
The midday sun climbed high and higher into the sky, and Leonora, pausing over her nearly completed sketch, pushed back her wide hat from her flushed face, and stopped to rest, glancing around at the quiet graves that encompassed her.
But she was very shy, very quiet with the man whose business it was to convey her to England.
In vain did Elise apply the hot fomentations and the vaunted liniments, in vain darken the room, and with kindest ministrations endeavor to woo quiet and repose to the couch of the afflicted one.
Meanwhile, Lord Lancaster had reached the spot where the girl was standing, with a slightly heightened color on her face, but with thatquiet air of self-possession she habitually wore.
Scarce a ripple stirred the bosom of the quiet lake, and the water-lilies, drooping to look at their fair reflections, were scarcely ruffled by the soft, light breeze that played around the enchanting spot.
So he went alone, and the address took him to a quiet, genteel boarding-house, in a quiet but highly respectable street.
Of how she had then come to Monkland, where the quietlife had slowly given her elasticity again.
The Club which Lord Dennis frequented was in St. James's untouched by the tides of the waters of fashion--steadily swinging to its moorings in a quiet backwater, and Miltoun found his uncle in the library.
It's difficult to find a quiet place," said Courtier; "but this might do.
And this soft night full of the quiet stir of the sea, and of dark immensity, woke in her a terrible longing to be at one with something, somebody, outside herself.
She was in her quiet way a woman of much character, endowed with that natural piety, which accepts without questioning the established order in life and religion.
In that south-coast air, sanest and most healing in all England, he raged very slowly, taking little thought of death, and much quiet pleasure in his life.
The ivied walls, and purplish roof lichened yellow in places, the quiet meadows harbouring ponies and kine, reaching from it to the sea--all was mellow.
Accustomed to retire to this quiet and homely room, which was not his official study where he was always liable to the attacks of secretaries, Lord Valleys had come up here after lunch to smoke and chew the cud of a worry.
Though it had been soquiet and private a wedding, he had resented all cheap festivity accompanying the passing of his young sister.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quiet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
