at-ease

Updated: May 16, 2025

In fifteen minutes he drew rein, his pony dropped immediately from a gallop to immobility, he swung into a graceful at-ease attitude across his saddle, grinned amiably, and began to roll a cigarette. "Billy Ellis," cried Rich. "That's me," replied the newcomer. "Thought you were down to Tucson?" "I was." "Thought you wasn't comin' back for a week yet?"

Stewart Edward White - Arizona Nights

All that he needed was now contained within himself; he was at-ease; and, literally, that unrest which men miscall delight could touch him not nor torture him again. If this were death how exquisite! And Time was not a passing thing, for it lay, he says, somehow in an ocean everywhere, heaped up in gulfs and spaces. It was as though he could help himself and take it.

Algernon Blackwood - The Centaur