Word: quieting
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...with which men in all ages have tried to overlay the human body. We grow to feel more and more that we are to seek our standards, not in this man's taste, nor in that man's taste, nor in any man's taste, but simply in a quiet, trustful following of whatever light our own experience has given us. People are so willing, it seems to me, to submit themselves to one great tailor or another great tailor, and try to persuade themselves that all the good taste in the world is summed up in him. But surely...
...girl closed her eyes, and lay a few moments quiet. When she opened them again, the youth was gone...
After an abundant breakfast, they set out for home; but each turned back for a minute in an affectionate farewell to the camp. The first mile of the road was finished with quiet conversation, at an ordinary pace; but as they neared the village Yung's steps grew gradually slower; nor did Tue insist upon haste. They were silent for five minutes, then Yung said suddenly, "I wish this might go on forever...
...rush straight from their exercise to their dinner in order to get anything at all to eat. The result would be a most melancholy set of dyspeptics. As it is, men must leave off work at 5.30. They can then dress at their leisure, and have ample time to quiet down before eating. Of course the evil is not wholly avoided even by the present precautions: those who stop exercise at 5.30 can still ruin their digestions, if they will, by hurrying off at once to their dinner. But the rule is effectual in many cases at least, and helps...
...Captain relapsed into the quiet complacency of one who had a good story to tell to expectant listeners. "It was about twilight when we two - Jackson and I - set out on horseback from Rio Janeiro. We were going to pay a visit to an old friend of ours, Don Reggio, whose place was about twenty miles outside the city...