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was and quiet
It was nice then, so peaceful and quiet.
There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.
The place was quiet.
But the scene was not the quiet, calm scene I'd expected.
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.
As he pulled the fringed sides up and made himself into a cocoon, Mr. Podger saw that thin, attractive, freckled little face again, and hoped that the boy, too, was lying in a cool, fringed-wrapped quiet.
But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.
And one cannot but wonder whether Marshal Malinovsky, who was blowing hot and cold, exalting peace but also almost openly considering the possibility of preventive war against the West, wasn't trying to keep the Chinese quiet.
On the other side of the church was a quiet, well-kept house with shutters and recently painted.
Instead Sergeant Early was quiet, sharp and confident.
There was a small, neon-lighted restaurant and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the intersection as he turned into the quiet, palm-lined street where most of the houses on both sides were older two-story mansions, now cut up into furnished rooms and housekeeping apartments.
He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.
It was nine o'clock in the morning: the hour which, like a spade turning clods of earth, exposed to the day a myriad of busy creatures that had lain dormant in the quiet night.
Winsett is a quiet street with no taverns and was completely deserted at that hour.
The campaign leading to the election was not so quiet, however.
All was quiet in the office of the Yankees and the local National Leaguers yesterday.
It was done with great taste, was big and spacious, sumptuous as the dreams of any peasant in its courtly costumes, but sumptuous in a muted, pastel-like style, with rich, quiet harmonies of color between the costumes themselves and between the costumes and the scenery.
while the Yin, or female principle, flourished in darkness, cold, and quiet inactivity, and was associated with the Moon.
Spencer was quiet for a moment longer, then he said, `` There is nothing I want to say, Captain ''.

was and self-effacing
Mary J. Packard, states a Messenger editorial, was `` efficient, pains-taking, self-effacing, loving, radiating the spirit of her Master.
She was chosen for being able to spin the character's lines with a self-effacing optimism.
Unlike Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was popular with troops partly for his self-effacing humor, Patton disliked jokes aimed at himself, feeling that accepting such jokes would decrease the respect which he felt that troops should have toward their commanders.
The NSC's Executive Secretary became an assistant to the President, but was sufficiently self-effacing not to conflict with a powerful Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles.
" Monteux's self-effacing approach to scores led to occasional adverse comment ; the music critic of The Nation, B. H. Haggin, while admitting that Monteux was generally regarded as one of the giants of conducting, wrote of his " repeatedly demonstrated musical mediocrity ".
Kossel's English was reportedly very good, and his self-effacing modesty is voluminously mentioned in the reporter's account.
Described by peers as gentle, self-effacing, and ambivalent toward politics, Henry Swift was Minnesota's third governor for less than a year, completing the second term of Alexander Ramsey, who had been elected United States Senator.
Despite her largely demure public persona as a traditional wife and homemaker, Nixon was not as self-effacing and timid as her critics often claimed.
Although in theory she had precedence over Empress Dowager Cixi, Empress Dowager Ci ' an was in fact a self-effacing person and seldom intervened in politics, unlike Empress Dowager Cixi, who was the actual master of China.
Mature was always a self-effacing star who had no delusions about his own work.
Produced by Jim Jones, who would go on to produce the Fox series and starring Ben Stiller and co-writer Jeff Kahn, it was a self-effacing show-within-a-show format.
He was a wonderfully inspiring leader, very self-effacing and taking no credit for himself, and he was a delight to work under.
In the New York City jazz scene of the 1970s it was not uncommon to attend all-star trumpet sessions on which the unassuming, self-effacing Hardman would go head to head with heralded trumpet stars and emerge the clear and decisive winner.
Majors was also a producer and a director on the show, and even sang its theme song, the self-effacing " Unknown Stuntman.
He was self-effacing in his public life, and he often referred to himself with naive objectiveness, as " funny Noguchi ;" but those who knew him well reported that he " gloated in honors.
This, not exactly a self-effacing text, informs us that master Radovan was the best in the art of sculpture and that the project was completed in the time when a Tuscan, Treguan from Florence, had been the bishop of Trogir.
British critic Jonathan Woolf has written: " De Greef was, in all respects, an intensely musical, non-sensationalist, eloquent and impressive musician and whilst not being averse to some of the interventionist tactics of his contemporaries ( retouching of the score ) remained sympathetically self-effacing ".
The power of his intelligence was disguised by his self-effacing manner as a reserve of strength and firmness which he did not in reality possess.
One of the mystical practices of dveikut of this close circle was its self-sacrifice in devotion as brethren among its members, which involved self-effacing love and tzedakah between them.
Brown was known for his self-effacing nature and was well liked among teammates and opponents alike.

was and remarkably
but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.
On these pillars rested that solid basis for life and thought which was soon to be manifested in the remarkably unlimited ken of the Iliad.
For the Lo Shu square was a remarkably complete compendium of most of the chief religious and philosophical ideas of its time.
Lincoln " was remarkably fond of children ", and the Lincolns were not considered to be strict with their children.
The connection many of them had with the church was of the slenderest kind, consisting mainly in adopting the title of abbé, after a remarkably moderate course of theological study, practising celibacy and wearing a distinctive dress a short dark-violet coat with narrow collar.
Albertus's knowledge of physical science was considerable and for the age remarkably accurate.
The public opinion of voters was remarkably influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theatres.
Strategic points, he says, not the defeat of the enemy's army, decide the fate of one's own country, and must constantly remain the general's main concern, a maxim which was never more remarkably disproved than in the war of 1809.
He was noted as a " remarkably fine looking youth ", and remembered for his charity and amiableness.
His anchoretic lifestyle was remarkably harsher than that of his predecessors.
Such a treaty was seemingly remarkably effective, as the Bastarnae disappear, save for a single passing mention in Tacitus, from the Roman chronicles until c. AD 175, some 160 years after Augustus ' inscription was carved.
The book of Jeremiah depicts a remarkably introspective prophet, a prophet who was impetuous and often angered by the role into which he has been thrust.
Jonah had already uttered his message of warning, and Nahum was followed by Zephaniah, who also predicted ( Zephaniah 2: 4-15 ) the destruction of the city, predictions which were remarkably fulfilled ( 625 BC ) when Nineveh was destroyed apparently by fire, and the Assyrian empire came to an end, an event which changed the face of Asia.
Even before the Declaration of Boulogne, the language was remarkably stable ; only one set of lexical changes were made in the first year after publication, namely changing " when ", " then ", " never ", " sometimes ", " always " from kian, tian, nenian, ian, ĉian to kiam, tiam, neniam etc., to avoid confusion with the accusative forms of kia " what sort of ", tia " that sort of ", etc.
The change was remarkably swift.
* In a remarkably similar vein, science fiction artist and author Wayne Douglas Barlowe wrote Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A. D. Voyage to Darwin IV, which was a natural history study of an alien planet and its indigenous wildlife, written as though published in the year 2366.
Sally Durant Plummer, " blond, petite, sweet-faced " and at 49 " still remarkably like the girl she was thirty years ago ", a former Weismann girl is the first guest to arrive ; her ghostly youthful counterpart moves towards her.
After the Big Bang, the universe, for a time, was remarkably homogeneous, as can be observed in the Cosmic Microwave Background or CMB ( the fluctuations of which are less than one part in one hundred thousand ).
In a December 2006 Newsweek International article, a study by Global Insight in London was reported to show " that Civil war or not, Iraq has an economy, and mother of all surprises it's doing remarkably well.
This design was used in the Junkers Jumo 205 diesel aircraft engine, using two crankshafts at either end of a single bank of cylinders, and most remarkably in the Napier Deltic diesel engines.
In summary, " For a writer whose early novels set in Scotland were prized for their historical accuracy, Scott was remarkably loose with the facts when he wrote Ivanhoe ...
Though she was illiterate, she had become a remarkably good cook, a hobby her husband shared.
Unlike most major shifts in scientific thought, special relativity was adopted by the scientific community remarkably quickly, consistent with Einstein's later comment that the laws of physics described by the Special Theory were " ripe for discovery " in 1905.

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