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Example sentences for "unruffled"

Lexicographically close words:
unrolling; unrolls; unromantic; unroofed; unroofing; unruled; unruliness; unruly; uns; unsaddle
  1. The earth glowed beneath its splendid canopy, and the trees, which skirted the border of the bay, threw their lengthened shadows upon the quiet waves, which lay unruffled and bathed in the glory of the gorgeous heavens.

  2. But his eyes vainly traversed the wide expanse of water; all around it blended with the bright blue sky, and no approaching bark darkened its unruffled surface.

  3. He traversed with unruffled courtesy the distance that separated him from Austria, and offered his hand with the grace of a finished courtier.

  4. Weighty, most weighty is the news that concerns the imperial house of Austria," said Kaunitz, with his unruffled equanimity.

  5. Your majesty's forehead is unruffled by a wrinkle, and your hair is as glossy and as brown as ever it was.

  6. The empress, with unruffled serenity, advanced to meet them.

  7. It was a beautifully calm night as both ships silently rounded this bold headland, the water so still and unruffled that it was actually used as an artificial horizon for the purpose of taking an astronomical observation.

  8. Several kayaks came skimming rapidly along the smooth and unruffled surface of the water as we approached, their occupants gazing with evident astonishment at the large "umiaks," whose motive power was to them invisible and incomprehensible.

  9. And yet all these were perfectly consistent with the unruffled calm which marked His whole career.

  10. Although the Marquis treated me with calm, unruffled dignity, as befitted the Ambassador of the greatest nation on earth, I nevertheless congratulated myself that my efforts had been eminently successful.

  11. You forget yourself, sir," he answered, with that calm, unruffled dignity that he could assume at will.

  12. He might dose again, but he could never sink back into its deep unruffled calm and indifference.

  13. On the straight unruffled bed he would see the gentle little body, with the tumbled honey-colored hair.

  14. That’s “The unruffled mirror of the loveliest dream That ever left the sky on the deep soul to beam.

  15. Her waters were clear as crystal, and her bosom was unruffled by a single wave, there being just motion enough upon the mirror-like surface to cause the sunbeams falling upon the water to glisten like a sea of sparkling diamonds.

  16. The Firth down yonder sleeping in the moonlight, could not have been less unruffled than the Englishman’s countenance; nevertheless, his language was too enthusiastic to be sincere.

  17. In the meantime, Mary and her maidens floated, so to speak, on the surface of all this turbulence and vexation, as the sea-bird floats with unruffled plumage on the restless waves.

  18. The doctor's eye saw a grave sweet little face, a good deal flushed, very grave, with a whole burden of thought behind its unruffled simplicity.

  19. My lady shall put here who she will please," the woman said, standing before her visiters with the most unruffled face and demeanour.

  20. Sperry admired Susan's manners as displayed in her unruffled serenity--an admiration which she did not in the least deserve.

  21. But here under thick alders it is cool, and the deep water of the lake that lies brooding within the silent crater of these Alban hills, stretches before us an unruffled surface of green and indigo profoundly mingled.

  22. Composed in mind, let us pursue our own unruffled course, with calm assurance that justice will at length prevail.

  23. Its great currents, indeed, might flow on (though even that is questionable), but its surface would never present any other aspect than that of an unruffled sheet of clear glass.

  24. Your knowledge and experience of real life being exhaustive," was the unruffled reply.

  25. You don't take your call yet,' said the unruffled Kloot.

  26. She displayed the deep calmness of repletion, a massive tranquillity unruffled even by a smile.

  27. But when Rip finished he was his unruffled self again.

  28. And that unruffled poise had its affect upon those behind.

  29. Elsewhere we read: "There was nothing of the sophist or logician in those sweet and venerable countenances, the unruffled beauty of which is so often dwelt upon by their biographers.

  30. Nearer to you, the smooth and unruffled surface is studded with little islands, where the mountain sheep roam in considerable numbers.

  31. The broad and beautiful Columbia lay before them, smooth and unruffled as a mirror; a little more journeying would take them to its lower region; to the noble valley of the Wallamut, their projected winter quarters.

  32. But Culpepper, in his unruffled good humor, failed to know his cue.

  33. Amanthus, sweet and unruffled and definite, was going on.

  34. Then you've made a blame bad bargain," commented the rancher, with unruffled good humor.

  35. It was poison," said Gillow, with unruffled good humor.

  36. The sun disappeared behind the hills on the bank; the evening sky was clear and serene, and the bright mirror of the Ohio extended unruffled near Racoon Creek, where we saw large flocks of ducks.


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