But the wind, as if satisfied at last with its mischievous pranks, stopped blowing this ocean and hurried away to another part of the world to blow something else; so that the waves, not being joggled any more, began to
quiet down and behave themselves.
They are two hotheads -- the one a Gascon, the other from Picardy; both are easily excited, but they
quiet down immediately.
After a time they commenced to
quiet down, and as no further mysterious deaths occurred among them they took heart again.
If you knock on your wall appealingly, they will
quiet down and discuss the matter softly among themselves for a moment--then, like the mice, they fall to persecuting you again, and as vigorously as before.
"I'm afraid you'll find it very
quiet down here, Hastings."
"She Persisted" is for everyone who has ever wanted to speak up but has been told to
quiet down, for everyone who has ever tried to reach for the stars but was told to sit down, and for everyone who has ever been made to feel unworthy or unimportant or small.
Luckily, someone found a match somewhere and lit it just long enough to scribble a message on a scrap of cigarette paper telling the traumatized Shaikeh to
quiet down. The commander then ordered his men to remove the pins on their hand grenades and prepare for suicide en masse at the first hint of Syrian troops.
Mayon Volcano appeared to
quiet down today as just five rockfall events were recorded in the past 24 hours.
"At the time of data collection, retailers were doing last-minute restocking as consumers head toward the finish line of the shopping season, but the majority of holiday merchandise was already in the country and ports were beginning to
quiet down," said Jonathan Gold, vice president for supply chain and customs policy for the NRF.
LEIGHTON BAINES Kept Atalanta
quiet down that side, despite the Italians' attempts to overload.
I want to
quiet down the multitude of sounds, the crowds of already digested things that populate us to be new.