She regrets leaving the
tranquil retirement of this remote sea-side place--she dreads change.
The scattered isles Uprose, black-looming o'er the
tranquil deeps, Where the reflected heavens wanly showed A lingering gleam.
Here, cherished like a household saint in its shrine, sat Beth,
tranquil and busy as ever, for nothing could change the sweet, unselfish nature, and even while preparing to leave life, she tried to make it happier for those who should remain behind.
People said that he resembled Byron--at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded,
tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
When we drove off, the driver said all the tourists had arrived and gone by while we were at dinner; "but," said he, impressively, "be not disturbed by that--remain tranquil--give yourselves no uneasiness--their dust rises far before us-- rest you
tranquil, leave all to me--I am the king of drivers.
These heavenly blessings had seemed mere than enough for nearly five years, during which the good sister and I had kept house together, leading a life of
tranquil happy days.
He died, not simply with a
tranquil, but with a triumphant conscience, and he was quite right, too.
Frances was just before me; she had been walking slowly in her room, and her step was checked by my advent: Twilight only was with her, and
tranquil, ruddy Firelight; to these sisters, the Bright and the Dark, she had been speaking, ere I entered, in poetry.
She saw in this, but a return of the simple pleasures they had once enjoyed, a relief from the gloomy solitude in which she had lived, an escape from the heartless people by whom she had been surrounded in her late time of trial, the restoration of the old man's health and peace, and a life of
tranquil happiness.
"And knowing all that, your honor remained here, far from the city,
tranquil and inactive."
All he cared about was gaiety and women, and as according to his ideas there was nothing dishonorable in these tastes, and he was incapable of considering what the gratification of his tastes entailed for others, he honestly considered himself irreproachable, sincerely despised rogues and bad people, and with a
tranquil conscience carried his head high.
Empty are still many sites for lone ones and twain ones, around which floateth the odour of
tranquil seas.