Word Finder - quietly

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In a quiet manner.

They stood quietly for a moment.

He opened the door and spoke quietly to someone.

I slipped quietly in and out of Canada.

The door opened quietly and Yancey entered, his face bland as he retrieved the magazine from his chair.

Mrs. Watson quietly swept their dirty plates away.

She quietly crossed to the kitchen and put some water on the stove for coffee.

All around him were the cows of the abbey, some chewing their cuds, and others like their master quietly sleeping.

She quietly lifted it and placed it on her lap.

She quietly rose from the bench.

His father stood quietly watching them "I would speak to you before I go," he said, his tone leaving no room for argument.

He worked quietly for a few minutes and then finally turned his attention to Carmen.

They converged then, and moved quietly across the sand, hoping the Indians didn't burst from the night to attack them.

Romas strode in unasked, and she cursed quietly as she saw the cat-like critter chasing Kiera.

Lana reached Arnie and spoke to him too quietly to hear.

Hilden asked this of me, he said quietly.

At last, just as the blacksmith was in the midst of a stirring song, he rose quietly and went out into the darkness.

Both their gazes returned to the two figures talking quietly in front of their father's grave.

Pulling on her boots, she quietly left the house using the back door.

The hostility of the Maryland authorities, however, eventually drove him into exile in Delaware, where he remained quietly, but not in idleness, for two years.

Discontented officers in the army and navy rallied to this idea, and a conspiracy was organized to depose the emperor and declare a republic. On the 14th of November 1889 the palace was quietly surrounded, and on the following morning the emperor and his family were placed on board ship and sent off to Portugal.

In the spring he returned to Copenhagen with recovered health and spirits, and worked quietly at his protean literary labours until the great fire of 1728.

Surrey's archers and cannon soon gained the upper hand, and the Scots, unable quietly to endure their losses, rushed to close quarters.

Charles spent his last years quietly in Naples, which city he improved and embellished.

The liquid when soaked into a porous combustible substance like blotting-paper burns rapidly and quietly, and when struck with a hammer on a hard surface violently detonates; when a little of the liquid is spread on an anvil and struck, the portion immediately under the hammer only will, as a rule, detonate, the remainder being scattered.

Some solutions of nitroglycerin (in ether, acetone, &c.) burn quietly, and the same is the case when it is held in solution or suspension in a colloid substance, as gelatinized guncotton, &c.

But he never was the man to take opposition to his wishes either quietly or without retaliation.

At Anzac July passed off quietly.

The mounted division, and also a division from Helles, were quietly concentrated there, and on the 21st a determined attempt was made to capture some of the high ground which had baffled the essays of the invaders on the 9th and loth.

Then the troops along the front were quietly withdrawn in successive groups, the fine weather continuing to the end and work at the beaches proceeding without a hitch.

On the 12th Germinal he was in the tribune, reading a report on the food supplies, when the hall of the Convention was invaded by the rioters, and when they withdrew he quietly continued where he had been interrupted.

Savonarola listened unmoved to the awful words, and then quietly resumed his interrupted devotions.

It is still more surprising that the soldiers should have quietly submitted to a reduction in the amount of the donative or gift which it was customary for them to receive from a new emperor, though the civil population of the capital were paid their largess (congiarium) in full.

Livia continued to live quietly at Rome, in the full enjoyment of authority, until her death at an advanced age.

Tilden counselled his followers to abide quietly by the result.

Fire-damp when mixed with from four to twelve times its volume of atmospheric air is explosive; but when the proportion is above or below these limits it burns quietly with a pale blue flame.

He still, to use his own words, hung his new exposition on to "the old doctrines, however much they at times pained me, rather than on to the purer and clearer"; for he hoped that the reformation of the Church would proceed quietly and from within.

Industry was thus in many ways compensated for the paralysis of trade with private buyers in the home market and for the closing of foreign markets, and it would have been able to continue quietly on the old lines but for the emergence of a new factor which fundamentally altered the conditions.

Before his death at Herat, 9th June 1863, Dost Mahomed had nominated as his successor Shere Ali, his third son, passing over the two elder brothers, Afzul Khan and Azim Khan; and at first the new amir was quietly recognized.

Constans as minister of the interior, had been quietly taking its measures for bringing a prosecution against him, and within two months a warrant was signed for his arrest.

They were dispersed again by the revolution of July 1830, but soon reappeared and, though put to much inconvenience during the latter years of Louis Philippe's reign, notably in 1845, maintained their footing, recovered the right to teach freely after the revolution of 1848, and gradually became the leading educational and ecclesiastical power in France, notably under the Second Empire, till they were once more expelled by the Ferry laws of 1880, though they quietly returned since the execution of those measures.

On the arrival of a parliamentary fleet in 1652, however, he retired from office and spent the following years quietly on his plantation.

He spent much time in prayer and died quietly, in the arms of his faithful friend Theodore Beza, on the evening of the 2 7th of May, in the fifty-fifth year of his age.

Scots are much more bothered about classroom indiscipline, which is why many will quietly be applauding the increase in expulsions and exclusions.

He held her chair as she took a seat and then sat quietly as Mrs. Marsh said grace.

Aaron quietly digested the information and then nodded.

After supper the twins and Destiny crawled into his lap and listened quietly as he read them a story.

This difficult task was accomplished by Count Peter Tolstoi, the most subtle and unscrupulous of Peter's servants; but terrorized though he was, Alexius would only consent to return on his father solemnly swearing, "before God and His judgment seat," that if he came back he should not be punished in the least, but cherished as a son and allowed to live quietly on his estates and marry Afrosina.

In that body he sat as quietly as he had done in the National Assembly, but on the occasion of the king's trial he had to speak, and then only to give his vote for the death of Louis.

Martos returned to the Bar in May 1874, and quietly looked on when the restoration took place at the end of that year.

From 1811 to 1818 Lord Selkirk's attempted colonization greatly increased the population; from the time of his failure till 1869 the settlers lived quietly under the mild rule of the Hudson's Bay Company.