While it is well that the pupils should see the nest with the young birds, they should be taught to respect the desire of the bird for quietness and seclusion.
He wanted to find a cottage near the hut where he could place one of his patients for a week, whom only quietness and air and sun could heal.
They did this very gladly, and in a little while a wonderful quietness reigned.
Sudden quietness prevailed on the step at the foot of the cross, where both men sat.
It was their duty to do so for the sake of the peace and quietness of us all.
Cadine and Marjolin, however, preferred the provincial quietness of the Rue des Bourdonnais, where one can play at marbles without fear of being run over.
But the house-front remained as tranquil as ever in the sunshine; and another quarter of an hour of unbroken quietness passed away, during which the three women's nervous excitement became more and more intense.
It takes two more steps toward quietness of light to read the human face and figure.
Many great paintings and poems are records of things discovered in this quietness of light.
But most of all I loved her simplicity and her quietness and her discretion.
After a moment of tense suspense, and the quietnesscontinuing unbroken, he stole out of the room.
She looked above, about, but the same darkness, the same quietness prevailed.
The quietness was profound except for the gentle lapping of the water, and disturbed occasionally by ripping sounds from a sawmill some distance down the river, which, if anything, added to the stillness instead of diminishing it.
He longed to get away to the quietness of his own room that he might think it all over.
Harmon could not very well refuse, although he much preferred to remain where he was, and hear the young man's story in the quietness of his own room.
For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
Since his last attack, Mr. Wilkins's mind had been much affected; he often talked strangely and wildly; but he had rare intervals of quietness and full possession of his senses.
Ellinor's grief was something alarming, from itsquietness and concealment.
He turned into the shrubbery paths, leaving Ellinor to take her father into the quietness of his own room, there to lie down and shake off his headache.
The knockers have a staid serious, nay almost awful quietness about them.
The knockers have a very staid, serious, nay almost awful quietness about them.
The Doctor tells me there are no dangerous Symptoms about me, and quietness of mind and fine weather will restore me.
I have another important announcement to make," said Captain Putnam, after order and quietness had been restored.
By this time the second clock had run down and quietness was restored.
Religion forbids such a practice; but, aside from this consideration, family comfort is essentially promoted by quietness and freedom from care on the Lord's day.
This habit promotes order and system, and gives quietness and ease to the movement of the whole family machinery.
For that little hamlet by the creek was entered, and its domestic quietness destroyed and future prospects blighted.
She departed in a whirl of new frocks and sweeping mantles and feathery hats, and a quietness it had never known settled upon Cloom.
Tom obeyed, but it was an odd quietness as of something waiting its time.
They never were alone together, they two, but vexations seemed to lose their power, or be forgotten; and an atmosphere of quietness gather about them, the natural element of both hearts.
So I have told a few lies this morning, and come off here for quietness and the comfort of complaining!
This was going too fast, however; presuming too much on the quietness with which the squire had been questioning him.
Yet he rode slowly, compelling himself to quietness and patience when he was once really on the way to her.
Mrs. Gibson considered Cynthia's quietness and languor as the natural consequence of 'dancing with everybody who asked her' at the ball.
She thought of Mrs. Hamley wearying for her; of the old Hall whose very quietness might become oppressive to an ailing person; of the trust the squire had had in her that she would come off directly with him.
Molly would fain have gone down and kept her father company every night that he had these solitary meals; but for peace and quietness she gave up her own wishes on the subject.
While this passed between the young people, the elder lady arose from her chair; quietness seemed painful to her.
He lived there in peace andquietness till he got acquainted with Uncle Brian, and came to Kingcombe Holm and fell in love with me.
He then waits with quietness till the landlord, in requital for the drawing together of hearers, sets before him a small refreshment, or till a compassionate guest treats him to a choppin of beer, or presents him with a few kreutzers.
I reckon the astonishment of the mob was equal to Heegan's; anyhow I'm told that we was favoured with such quietness that my voice sounded four blocks, simply achin' with satisfactions.
There was something terrible and menacing in the quietnesswith which they gloated--a suggestion of some horror to come.
He was growing intensely curious about the seething fire beneath the outer crust ofquietness and security.
He cautioned quietness as they neared the shore, but in the little creek where the boat was pushed up not a living thing was seen.
Morton in a rage said to him one day, "The country will never be in quietness till half a dozen of you be hanged or banished.
The notes of a plover, or the bleating of a lamb, or the lowing of a cow, might be heard making the quietness all the more impressive.
Men and women, young and old, came and sat down on the broad green, in quietness and with unwonted gravity.
The synods flourished; the presbyteries were uninterrupted in their work; the congregations enjoyed quietness and refreshing.
During Cromwell's administration the land had rest; unusual quietness prevailed among the clans; there was a great calm.
On Saturday night, when quietness had fallen upon the camp, John Welch arrived with an additional force of 440 men.
There is no rest or quietness for our wills, but in the will of God: and his will is always for the good of them that truly desire to be conformed to it, by obedience to his commands, and submission to his disposal.
Thou fillest thy house with discontents and brawlings, and banishest all quietness and fear of God.
How sweet an ease and quietness is it to the mind that can confidently trust in God!
Learn with quietness and peace in the school of Christ, and make not divisions, and meddle not with others' lessons and matters, but with your own.
Crowds and ill company are no friends to meditation; choose therefore the quietness of solitude when you would do much in this.
At least command yourself into quietness till reason be heard speak, and while you deliberate.
And by molesting and frighting the sinner, when he doth but take up any purpose to be converted; giving him all content and quietness in sin, and raising storms and terrors in his soul when he is about to turn.
