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I wonder if you know that the ox was originally a denizen of the bush. I didn't until Harry told me. It always seemed to me a tranquil beast adapted for sober locomotion on nice green grass." "And isn't it?" said the girl with indifference in her eyes. "Mr. Alton is an authority on cattle?"
I concluded by saying: "They tell us that France is tranquil, that order is not disturbed.
But what was their horror to see its usually tranquil waters seething and bubbling, and even as they looked down rushed a mighty stream, which entirely engulfed it, and Sylvain and Jocosa found themselves parted by a wide and swiftly-rushing river.
The sun rose as I watched, gilding the pinnacles of the icebergs, which still remained fixed in the bay, casting a silvery hue over the masses of snow yet unmelted on the hills, and making stronger than ever the contrast between the pure white of the snow-covered ice, and the deep blue of the tranquil ocean.
He advanced with a tranquil air, and a smile that he had forced upon his lips. With the presence of mind with which all women seem to be gifted, Clemence fell back into her chair, and, assuming a languid, suffering tone, mixed with an appearance of reproach, she said: "I am glad to see you for a moment in order to scold you; you have not shown your usual consideration to-night.
Ridge's; and when she saw Uncle Stanley in the outer office a few minutes later and he smiled without looking at her smiled and shook his head to himself as though he were thinking of something droll Mary went back to her room in a hurry, and stayed there until she felt tranquil again. "What are the men saying now?" she asked Archey the following week.
"Thinking," she said, "is a luxury to a tranquil mind and a punishment to a troubled one. So I try not to." It was a moment or two before it occurred to him that the girl had uttered an unconscious epigram. "It sounded like somebody probably Montaigne. Was it?" he inquired. "I don't know what you mean." "Oh. Then it wasn't. You're a funny little girl, aren't you?" "Yes, rather." "On purpose?"
"War is war, Carlos, and brutalizes the most intelligent people on earth, if they indulge in it. I trust our troubles are ended here, for a long time, if not forever, now that Mico is our prisoner. At any rate, I hope all will remain peaceful and tranquil till I go home and return. For a month I have a leave of absence, to visit my native State."
For there speaks from them a tranquillity which seems to overcome our souls; which makes us feel in the midst of toil and passion that we are disquieting ourselves in vain; that we are travelling to a region where these things shall not be; that "so shall immoderate fear leave us, and inordinate love shall die." Wordsworth's last days were absolutely tranquil.
Her daring and sparkling vivacity were tempered by a tranquil charm, as if a slumbering something, wholly of the East had suddenly awakened and claimed her. She said her father had traveled far and had spent many of their long winter evenings in spinning yarns of foreign countries for her enjoyment. She'd been brought up more regularly on pictures than she had food.
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