1 Expected fierce quarrel, but all was quiet.
2 I am not sleepy, and the work will help to keep me quiet.
3 Lucy is full of quiet joy, and her mother is glad and sorry at once.
4 They both, however, kept their courage, and remained silent and quiet.
5 The report was good; he had been quite quiet for the past day and night.
6 They are both quiet persons, and I never saw the man angry, nor heard the dog bark.
7 The moment it touched the stone the poor thing became quiet and fell all into a tremble.
8 He became quite quiet, and went and sat on the edge of his bed resignedly, and looked into space with lack-lustre eyes.
9 All the resolution has gone out of his dear eyes, and that quiet dignity which I told you was in his face has vanished.
10 I have given orders to the night attendant merely to shut him in the padded room, when once he is quiet, until an hour before sunrise.
11 After reading his account of it I was prepared to meet a good specimen of manhood, but hardly the quiet, business-like gentleman who came here to-day.
12 When I had written my two letters I sat quiet, reading a book whilst the Count wrote several notes, referring as he wrote them to some books on his table.
13 In about five minutes, however, he began to get more and more quiet, and finally sank into a sort of melancholy, in which state he has remained up to now.
14 I mistrust these quiet moods of his; so I have given the attendant a hint to look closely after him, and to have a strait-waistcoat ready in case of need.
15 In a few minutes, however, my own ears got accustomed to the sound, and the horses so far became quiet that the driver was able to descend and to stand before them.
16 The attendant tells me that he was quiet until just before dawn, and that then he began to get uneasy, and at length violent, until at last he fell into a paroxysm which exhausted him so that he swooned into a sort of coma.
17 They were all of the thinnest foreign post, and looking at them, then at him, and noticing his quiet smile, with the sharp, canine teeth lying over the red underlip, I understood as well as if he had spoken that I should be careful what I wrote, for he would be able to read it.
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