If with thee be broken hearts, Joy so
peacefully departs, That its echo still doth dwell, Like the murmur in the shell.
She died very
peacefully, so that I didn't know she was dead till the sister told me."
"Wait a minute and I'll come right back," answered the old fellow, thinking he had to deal with one of those boys who love to roam around at night ringing people's bells while they are
peacefully asleep.
Old Mother Simon had returned to Felicite and was
peacefully falling asleep.
One can only be silent and sit
peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth.
A snowy handkerchief of lisse crape is folded neatly across her bosom; her glossy brown silk dress rustles
peacefully, as she glides up and down the chamber.
Two or three glimmering lights showed where it lay,
peacefully sleeping, beyond the vague vast sweep of star-gemmed water, unconscious of the tremendous event that was happening.
On the narrow Augesd Dam where for so many years the old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap
peacefully angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for so many years Moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had
peacefully driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty with flour whitening their carts- on that narrow dam amid the wagons and the cannon, under the horses' hoofs and between the wagon wheels, men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way.
And such indeed was the purpose of his attitude--which meant that the white stranger within his village still slept
peacefully.
There is the "Sea of Serenity," over which the young girl bends; "The Lake of Dreams," reflecting a joyous future; "The Sea of Nectar," with its waves of tenderness and breezes of love; "The Sea of Fruitfulness;" "The Sea of Crises;" then the "Sea of Vapors," whose dimensions are perhaps a little too confined; and lastly, that vast "Sea of Tranquillity," in which every false passion, every useless dream, every unsatisfied desire is at length absorbed, and whose waves emerge
peacefully into the "Lake of Death!"
In future I am not to go on living
peacefully in my little corner, poor though that corner be I am not to go on living, as the proverb has it, without muddying the water, or hurting any one, or forgetting the fear of the Lord God and of oneself?
Murder in the first degree is flattered by his fate up to the point of letting him die
peacefully in Boston after these dealings of his in England; and altogether his story could not be commended to people with a morbid taste for bloodshed.