1 Satisfied on these great points and with tranquility everywhere, I too should have had my Congress and my Holy Alliance.
2 Besides this, as every great action bears its recompense with it, the brave exploit of d'Artagnan resulted in the restoration of the tranquility he had lost.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 3 And were it possible to maintain things in this equilibrium, I veritably believe that herein would be found the true form of political life, and the true tranquility of a republic.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI. 4 He remained in this state during the rest of the day, a whirlwind within, a profound tranquillity without.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 5 With stupid tranquillity he surveyed this peaceful and terrible apartment, where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR 6 From time to time she raised her eyes towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable confidence.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE... 7 It seemed as though something of the repose of the dead entered into Jean Valjean's tranquillity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS 8 He uttered coarse speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack of astonishment which was elegant.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT 9 They take possession of peace, of tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content.
10 This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated epoch.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 11 These immense enclosures alone can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable tranquillity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS 12 Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION 13 The end of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, opposite the barricade, had been evacuated by the troops, as we have stated it seemed to be free, and presented itself to passers-by with a sinister tranquillity.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED 14 Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MIS... 15 Those who have never traversed the whirlwind of this sort of war can form no idea of the singular moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT