Saying little

Usage examples of quiet.

A little over a week later, they reached a much bigger canyon, a wide, rugged gorge through whose bottom ran a quiet river, where pine trees and actus coexisted along the sandy banks and birds twittered in hidden crevices among the rocks.

There was a quiet background hum in the affinity band as the void-hawks conversed and exchanged astrogation updates.

Their street, Clay Avenue, was more modest than most of the affluent byways of Pelham, but it was sheltered, shady, and quiet.

Lord John Russell, however, quieted many fears by announcing, which he did in his most pompous manner, that Sir Charles Napier had been selected to command the army in India.

Also I was annoyed that the male had stirred my blood at a time I might not see it cooled again, unless I pulled him into a quiet corner as he had done with me.

There were times he longed for something interesting to happen, in order to break up the quiet monotony that was so much a part of Antler existence.

There was a microphone in the OR, so that you heard everything-the clink of instruments, the rhythmic hiss of the respirator, the quiet See Appendix 111: Battlefields and Barberpoles.

He is quiet, but always appraising, with a gentle laugh--all of it conveniently misleading.

And then the annunciator uttered its two-tone three-note whistle and even the legends went quiet.

Above their heads the annunciator went into a quiet, controlled frenzy.

And how Poliphilus there had with madnes almost forgotten himselfe in the passions of desire, but hope did asswage his furie, quieting himselfe in the beholding of the sweete sauour of the faire Nymph.

The Helmet Men, seemingly astounded by what had taken place, exchanged quiet comments in their strange barking speech, and began to draw back behind the safety of their gigantic animals.

In the dark quiet streets and in the glare of the hotel lobby the swarms of uniforms astounded him.

The normative astronaut was Hickory Lee: quiet, fearfully efficient, solid drinker off duty, quick to anger if his rights were trespassed, and average in almost every other human reaction.

If this should prove to be case, you will discover that quiet attentiveness to your bodily stillness is itself a self-transforming way to God.