The property of making no sound

Usage examples of quietness.

Eugene for some time thereafter with absurd quietness and restraint of manner, and a kind of stiff primness about her backbone.

Over all the earth at once, now that the roar of the engine had stopped, there was an immense and brooding quietness, a drowsed autumnal fume and warmth, immensely desolate and mournful, holding somehow a tragic prophecy of winter that must come, and death, and yet touched with the lonely, mournful and exultant mystery of the earth.

The little shops, the wine shops with their bay windows of small leaded glass, and the crusty opulence of the bottles of old port and sherry and the burgundies, the mellow homely warmth and quietness of the interior, the tailor shops, the tobacco shops with their selected grades of fine tobacco stored in ancient crocks, the little bell that tinkled thinly as you went in from the street, the decorous, courteous, yet suavely good-natured proprietor behind the counter, who had the ruddy cheeks, the flowing brown moustache and the wing-collar of the shopkeeper of solid substance, and who would hold the crock below your nose to let you smell the moist fragrance of a rare tobacco before you bought, and would offer you one of his best cigarettes before you left--all of this gave somehow to the simplest acts of life and business a ritualistic warmth and sanctity, and made you feel wealthy and secure.

Elinor and Starwick obviously wanted to be alone to talk together--they conveyed this by a kind of mysterious more-to-this-than-meets-the-eye quietness that had been frequent with them during all these weeks.

At any rate, we have proved one thing, that the spells of quietness last a reasonable time.

She felt no pain, only peace and quietness, and let herself drift into that light like a leaf in the fountain.

The quietness spread, from gray eyes that held no hatred for those who spat at her face or tasted her blood, from a voice that could scream in pain yet mouth no curses after, that spoke, between screams, in a steady confirmation of all good.

This was not the quietness of inviolable protection, for she suffered all that was done to her.

Death was aprowl somewhere in this fantastic place, for all of the quietness in the air.

The Aston Martin is a magnificent machine but not particularly renowned for the quietness of its engine: there were carping critics who occasionally maintained that the engines for the David Brown tractor division found their way into the wrong machines.

It served only two farms and one private house, and because of its quietness it was a regular route for the Axminster horses on roadwork days.

A moment of intense quietness, then Bima sighed, and the balance dropped.

Miss Brayton had little to say, but her quietness was more than atoned for by the vivacity of Sadie and Margaret.

It took a long time for the quietness to return and while he waited for it Mart May stood quite still, turning the silver tin with the mints inside and the lettering on the outside, round and round slowly between his hands.

It was an awe-filled quietness in which she watched her mind throw off restraint and drag up from its deep chambers repressed recriminations of the last three and a half years.