As for me, it quite sufficed to my mental tranquillity that I was known where it imported that known I should be; the rest sat on me easily: pedigree, social position, and recondite intellectual acquisition, occupied about the same space and place in my interests and thoughts; they were my third-class lodgers—to whom could be assigned only the small sitting-room and the little back bedroom: even if the dining and drawing-rooms stood empty, I never confessed it to them, as thinking minor accommod
She was not exactly naughty or wilful: she was far from disobedient; but an object less conducive to comfort—to tranquillity even—than she presented, it was scarcely possible to have before one's eyes.
The consequence was that, perforce, he was condemned to the fireside and tranquillity, till he made it up again.
I doubt it too much to venture my tranquillity by running into temptation: and then my home is not here.
I can't be prevented from going to Wuthering Heights, except by inflicting misery on two people; whereas, if you'll only not tell papa, my going need disturb the tranquillity of none.
It asserted its own tranquillity, which seemed a pledge of equal quiet to its former inhabitant.
Linton's tranquillity for his satisfaction.
The doctor, on examining the case for himself, spoke hopefully to him of its having a favourable termination, if we could only preserve around her perfect and constant tranquillity.
However, Catherine would not be persuaded into tranquillity.
He himself had said that no remedy could avail, and he awaited with tranquillity that death which had for him no terrors.
They perceived by the tranquillity of the sea, in which no shallows troubled the waters, by its uniform color, which was stained by no yellow shades, by the absence of even a reef, that the coast was steep and that the ocean there covered a deep abyss.
On this sin, that a man inordinately loveth himself, almost all dependeth, whatsoever is thoroughly to be overcome; which evil being once overcome and subdued, there will presently ensue great peace and tranquillity.
Her tranquillity was like the sullen calm that broods over an island which has been swept by a hurricane.
Her tranquillity was like the sullen calm that broods over an island which has been swept by a hurricane.
"There's no security, or peace and tranquillity, except underground.
The evening wore away with no abatement of this soothing politeness; and her spirits were gradually raised to a modest tranquillity.
Her tranquillity was not improved by the General's impatience for the appearance of his eldest son, nor by the displeasure he expressed at his laziness when Captain Tilney at last came down.
But not one of these grave reflections troubled the tranquillity of Catherine.
The poet describes the calm and the tranquillity of the city.
Tranquillity.
