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quietly
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Quietly may refer to: Quietly , play by Owen McCafferty about a pub bombing in Northern Ireland, 2012 Quietly (album) , album by Mouth of the Architect, 2008 "Quietly" (song) , single by the Guano Apes Quietly (company) , content marketing company
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In a quiet manner.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. with low volume; "speak softly but carry a big stick"; "she spoke quietly to the child"; "the radio was playing softly" [syn: softly ] [ant: loudly ] with little or no sound; "the class was listening quietly and intently"; "she was crying quietly" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quietly \Qui"et*ly\, adv. In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly. Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly. Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cry quietly/softly ▪ People sat crying softly among the wreckage. live peacefully/quietly/happily etc ▪ The two communities live peacefully alongside each other. ▪ She thought that she would get married and live happily ...
Usage examples of quietly.
He must needs weave his phantasy into some quietly melancholy fabric of didactic or allegorical cast, in which his meekly resigned cynicism may display with naive moral appraisal the perfidy of a human race which he cannot cease to cherish and mourn despite his insight into its hypocrisy.
She stood quietly in the semi-darkness, illuminated by the glow of dozens of precisely imaged, hovering galaxies, watching and listening as the two most intelligent beings she had ever met in her life conversed in a steady hum of words, whistles, and clicks with an oversized insectoid who gleamed like an ambulatory topaz and smelled of orchids and vanilla.
Heinders, but the watching public had taken it comparatively quietly, seemingly more interested in watching the antics of their representatives in the hall below than encouraging any particularly partisan opinion now that a decision had been reached.
Leaving Andre and his two followers, he went quietly up the slope, to assure himself that the artilleryman was still there.
Johnson, partly from a desire to see it play more freely, and partly from that inclination to activity which will animate, at times, the most inert and sluggish mortal, took a long pole which was lying on a bank, and pushed down several parcels of this wreck with painful assiduity, while I stood quietly by, wondering to behold the sage thus curiously employed, and smiling with an humorous satisfaction each time when he carried his point.
A green status light lit up immediately, and the voice that had so recently echoed from the annunciators spoke quietly in his ear.
By quietly persevering in sustained nonthinking meditative attentiveness, we come to a new groundedness within ourselves.
Watson knew, was to stand from his chair, ease the man quietly from the office, lock the door, and hope Ballenger would not come back.
The baronet allowed her to revel in the proclamation of a dire future, and quietly counselled her to keep apart from him, which his sister assured him she would do.
But Captain Krausa listened quietly, then answered with real poetryhe accused the Losian of every crime from barratry to mopery and dopery in the spaceways.
Although, as a general case, a ship unlucky in falling in with whales continues to cruise after them until she has barely sufficient provisions remaining to take her home, turning round then quietly and making the best of her way to her friends, yet there are instances when even this natural obstacle to the further prosecution of the voyage is overcome by headstrong captains, who, bartering the fruits of their hard-earned toils for a new supply of provisions in some of the ports of Chili or Peru, begin the voyage afresh with unabated zeal and perseverance.
It was best that Josiah Bartram should remain quietly dead and buried.
He quietly cursed all those he felt responsible for his presence here: Cabe Bedlam, the Lady of the Amber, Azran Bedlam, the Gryphon, the cowardly Dragon Kingseveryone but himself.
Bette leaned over to whisper to Harriet who quietly hurried out of the sanctuary while Bette continued.
King John thought Sir Bedivere would attack the farmers empty-handed, but Sir Guillam and Sir Blays held his arms and talked quietly and urgently to him, until the killing glare had faded from his eyes.