Calmness

(noun.) a feeling of calm; an absence of agitation or excitement.

(noun.) an absence of strong winds or rain.

整理:塞丽娜

• He received the communication with perfect calmness, and acquiesced in its propriety. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Tease calmness of manner and presence of mind! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• My illness has made me think It has given me leisure and calmness for serious recollection. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• He was only restored to comparative calmness by repeated assurances of the certainty of discovering the fugitive. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I am glad you gave him something considerable, said Lady Bertram, with most unsuspicious calmness, for _I_ gave him only 10 pounds. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• You are an enviable dog, said the Vicar, to have such a prospect--Rosamond, calmness and freedom, all to your share. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She made that strange reply with a weary calmness and coldness. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• You mean, answered Elinor, with forced calmness, Mr. Willoughby's marriage with Miss Grey. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Try Jenny,' suggested that young lady with great calmness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I _have_, said Legree, with a grim, terrible calmness, _done--just--that--thing_, Tom, unless you'll tell me what you know about these yer gals! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Happily for the preservation of my calmness and my courage there was time for nothing but action. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Not quite, returned Emma, with forced calmness, for all that you then said, appeared to me to relate to a different person. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Of course you have seen my fire, she answered with languid calmness, artificially maintained. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Elinor needed little observation to perceive that her reserve was a mere calmness of manner with which sense had nothing to do. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.

编辑:谢恩