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Updated: May 19, 2025
Open your history of sculpture again and look at the usual list of Michelangelo groups. Suppose the seated majesty of Moses should rise, what would be the quality of the action? Suppose the sleeping figures of the Medician tombs should wake, or those famous slaves should break their bands, or David again hurl the stone. Would not their action be as heroic as their quietness?
He turned, and addressed himself again to Obenreizer. "I can think of nothing comparable to you, Mr. Obenreizer, but granite and even that wears out in course of time. In the interests of peace and quietness for the sake of your own dignity relax a little.
He answered her instantly with the utmost quietness, the utmost kindness. "Lady Evesham, your own heart has already told you the truth." She put out a quick hand, and he took it and held it firmly, sustainingly, while he went on. "There is nothing whatever to be done. Give her rest, that's all; absolute rest. She looks as if she has been worked beyond her strength. Is that so?"
Let's report at Headquarters, and then take Dad over and show him our new house." "Yes, I'm dying to see it," said the Deacon, "and to git somewhere that I kin sit down in peace and quietness. Seems to me I haven't had a moment's rest for years, and I'm as nigh tuckered out as I ever wuz in my life." At the Army Headquarters was a crowd of officers, mounted and dismounted.
It seemed an understood thing with the men that if I went out first round Jack would fight Romany; and if Jack knocked him out somebody else would fight Jack to square matters. Jim Bullock wouldn't mind obliging for one; he was a mate of Jack's, but he didn't mind who he fought so long as it was for the sake of fair play or 'peace and quietness', as he said. Jim was very good-natured.
We had come through the darkness of the night in comparative quietness; and in two hours from the time we had left the old Torch, we were transferred from her orderly deck to the bustle of a crowded town. One of our crew undertook to be the guide to the agent's house. We arrived before it.
It may be fatalism, Mate, but it is indisputable that looking finality in the face had brought to all of them a quietness of spirit that no longing for wider fields or personal ambition can disturb. None of them had known their husbands before marriage. Few had ever seen them.
He himself believed that more was to be gained by quietness and moderation than by violence, and he felt bound to warn him in the spirit of Christ against all intemperate and passionate language; but he did not wish to admonish Luther what to do, but only to continue steadfastly what he was doing already.
Wot ef I say that ef that's the kind o' hogwash that law and snivelization offers me for peace and quietness, I'll take the fightin', and the law-breakin', and the sheriff, and all h-ll for his posse instead? Wot ef I say that?" "It will only be my duty to repeat it," said Stacey, with an affected carelessness which, however, did not conceal his surprise and his discomfiture.
He made known his intention to his parents, and accordingly, on the following morning, he started on his journey, expecting to return in a few weeks. Fostina, on hearing this, felt greatly relieved, thinking she should now rest in peace and quietness during his absence.
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