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Sentences starting with calm

Calm your passion; yet I am glad to see it. [14]
Calm words, slow touch of hand, but, oh, the cry, The long, long cry of passion and of joy Within my heart; the star-burst in the sky-- The world--our world--which time may not destroy! [11]
Calm yourself," said Rostov. [2]
Calm and resolute, he gave the pass-word with haughty bearing to the sentinel and entered his tent. [10]
Calm in the consciousness that he had given his former friend's sister no reason to believe in his love, and firmly resolved merely to bestow a slight lesson on her brother, he took the weapon. [10]
Calm yourself, I beseech you, I conjure you--the wound is slight. [10]
Calm yourself. [5]

Sentences ending with calm

Hawkins was wild with joy, but Sellers was calm. [5]
For the man who had kindled a fire--the blaze of which was to mark an epoch--he was exceptionally calm. [9]
He found him weak, but calm. [6]
Melissa, as she walked on, could not think with her usual calm. [10]
But I will try to remain calm! [10]
And it came to pass that I prayed unto the Lord; and after I had prayed, the winds did cease, and the storm did cease, and there was a great calm. [5]
When I finished there was an awful calm. [5]
Then stillness again, the stillness that comes between waking and sleeping, between pain and calm. [9]
Jane entered upon the duties of that day with a settled, gloomy calm. [13]
Charley looked at the Cure, mournful and broken but calm. [11]

Short sentences using calm

Monsieur Vigo was surprisingly calm. [9]
You're so cool, so calm! [13]
Thou calm, chaste scholar! [6]
I am calm now! [10]
Afternoon--The calm is no more. [5]
How calm he is--how self-possessed. [5]
I think he is calm. [4]
Now the sea is calm. [10]
Outward calm, but inner fire. [9]
He was calm in death. [4]

Sentences containing calm two or more times

They are calm, visibly calm, painfully calm; and it is not the eternal, majestic calmness of the Sphinx either, but a rigid, self-conscious repression. [4]
Then she turned to the Queen with the entreaty: "Be calm, my royal mistress, be calm, I beseech you. [10]
He seems the only calm man to be found in the hall--but is the calm aberration? [9]
This calm consciousness of command, and calm unconscious outward expression of it, remained with her thenceforth until her mission was accomplished. [5]
But one is calm before St. Mark's, one is calm in the cellar; for its details are masterfully ugly, no misplaced and impertinent beauties are intruded anywhere; and the consequent result is a grand harmonious whole, of soothing, entrancing, tranquilizing, soul-satisfying ugliness. [5]
And I am afraid of him; I have now become quite calm, quite calm. [2]

More example sentences with the word calm in them

Come, now, calm yourselves, and let me go on with my story; or it will be morning before Bartja gets to sleep. [10]
Nay, many a young Alexandrian, passing the group on foot or in a carriage, looked at her a second time, for that smile lent a mysterious charm to her pale, calm face. [10]
No; I like you, and I like your calm unruffled way of explaining things to the customers, but you see I am not used to it. [5]
With a glass you can see the cow-sheds about its base, and the contented sheep nimbling pebbles in the desert solitudes that surround it, and the tired pigs dozing in the holy calm of its protecting shadow. [5]
Not only where you are--at the heart of affairs and of the world--is the talk all of war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature--which townsfolk consider characteristic of the country--rumors of war are heard and painfully felt. [2]
I beg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics. [7]
So calm the world, so still the city lies, So warm the haze that spreads o'er everything; And yet where, there, Peace sits as Lord and King, Havoc will reign when next the sun shall rise. [11]
He blindly felt working in the man before him a powerful mind, more powerful because it faced the truth unflinchingly; but he knew that this did not mean calm acceptance of the consequences. [11]
I've done fine work in my time, but upon that day--not a cloud above, no dust beneath, a flowing tide, and a calm sea. [11]
Next day he woke calm and cheerful. [2]
The stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. [2]
She was struck with the excited look of Euthymia, being herself quite calm, and contemplating her project with entire complacency. [6]
They confound belief with evidence, often trusting the first because it is expressed with energy, and slighting the latter because it is calm and unimpassioned. [3]
He bears himself with a calm, stately dignity, and is a man of noble presence. [5]
She came on with a calm and cheerful countenance, stopped once, and casting her eyes upwards, said, 'Why have they kept me five days from thee, my husband? [5]
Keep calm, I will call again tomorrow," said Metivier; and putting his fingers to his lips he hastened away. [2]
The manner in which he had attempted to rid himself of the rival seemed criminal enough, yet the nocturnal attack had scarcely concerned him personally, and he would not condemn the man who was usually so calm and sensible without having heard him. [10]
Carlyle was truthful when calm, but give him Americans enough and bricks enough and he could have taken medals himself. [5]
But they... they were steady and calm all the time, to the end..." thought he. [2]
At first it was thought he was joking, but when at last, in his calm and dreamy look, they saw he meant what he said, they rose and carried him round the room on a chair, making impromptu songs as they travelled. [11]
The prince's tone was so calm and confident that Princess Mary unhesitatingly believed him. [2]
Mr. Mason, who was sitting with us, rose to calm her. [9]
The long storm was over, and the calm autumnal sunshine was now to return, with all its infinite repose and sweetness. [6]
My own feeling was of unmixed wonder as I gazed at a calm profile above me, sharp-cut against the moon. [9]
How calm it was even with the fury within! [11]
This steely calm was even more frightening than the ferocity which had previously been in his captor's face. [11]
Their late visit was due to the necessity of holding a conference in relation to the measures to be adopted to calm the excited citizens. [10]
His pale face was calm, his eyes closed, and they could see his regular breathing. [2]
Murray Bradshaw's face was calm as usual, but there was a flush on his cheek, and Master Gridley saw the slight but unequivocal signs of excitement. [6]
But with a voice strangely calm, she said, "You mean Adrian Fellowes? [11]
Titianus received his visitor, lying down, and yet his demeanor revealed the self-possessed dignity of a high-born Roman, and the calm of a Stoic philosopher. [10]
Even when the violence of these emotions had in some degree subsided, and he was beginning to grow more calm, there came into his mind a new thought, the anguish of which was scarcely less. [12]
There was something very enjoyable about his calm superiority to all the treasures of art. [4]
He asked her various questions about herself, which she answered with a tone not quite so calm as natural, but willingly and intelligently. [6]
She was growing used to celebrity, and could already sit calm and seemingly unconscious, under the fire of fifty lorgnettes in a theatre, or even overhear the low voice "That's she! [5]
The window went up, a maid-servant's discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr's remains! [5]
Whenever he ordered up the danger-signals along the coast there was a week's dead calm, sure, and every time he prophesied fair weather it rained brickbats. [5]
His mind had undergone the peculiar change which frequently precedes death, two days previously; the calm of better feelings filled it; a return of natural affection marked his last moments. [14]
Her face was turned upwards and was exquisitely calm and sweet; and as she lay motionless and smiled up at Katharina, she looked like an angel wearied in well-doing. [10]
When he came to, he said mournfully: "The unnatural calm to which I have subjected myself has told upon my nerves. [5]
He was subject to the same weariness of the flesh and fatigue of the spirit as all men; yet it was expected of him that at any hour he should be at the disposal of suffering humanity--of criminal or idiotic humanity--patient, devoted, calm, nervestrung, complete. [11]
So I had to sit there and look calm and pleasant while the king stood over that dynamite mine and mooned along about his damned onions and things. [5]
She desired her to sit down by her side, and holding Paula's hand in both her own, she spoke to her in a tone of calm deliberation. [10]
I am prepared to show you, if you will only point out the article that you allude to, that you regard as 'charges' what no calm and logical mind has any right to regard as such. [5]
This avowal appeared to satisfy Quijada, and it really did calm him. [10]
On our voyage to San Francisco we ran into a calm in the middle of the Pacific, and did not move a rod during fourteen days; this gave me a chance to copy the diaries. [5]
Nearer and nearer to Rostov came that sun shedding beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, and majestic voice that was yet so simple! [2]
There was much to palliate the course which she had pursued in former days, and she had carefully planned the defence by which she hoped to influence his calm but not unjust nature. [10]
Suffer me now to lay down a few propositions, whether old or new it matters little, not for your immediate acceptance, nor yet for your hasty rejection, but for your calm consideration. [3]
The Macedonian bowed to his sovereign with calm dignity, and in the name of the municipally hoped he had rested well. [10]
He had come to his mother, believing that the visit would comfort and calm his troubled mind, but Sappho's words had destroyed his last hope, and with that his last possibility of rest or peace. [10]
A man left to himself drifts about like a boat on a calm lake; it is only when the wind blows that the boat goes anywhere. [4]
And she had to calm herself with the assurance that her relationship with Ditmar had undergone no change. [9]
Her heart began to beat faster, and at the same time questions crowded on her excited brain, each bringing with it fresh anxiety for those she loved, of whom, till now, she had been thinking with calm reassurance. [10]
Then, forcing himself to be calm, he exclaimed in broken sentences, whilst Biberli was helping him put on his armour: "Your wish, reverend Father, is also mine. [10]
So, after a time, he got calm as the farthest light in the sky, his face shining among them all with a look none could read. [11]
At the same time thundering plaudits echoed from the walls of the fortifications and broke, sometimes rising, sometimes falling, against the ships and masts in the calm water of the harbour. [10]
And after a time she was calm again, and went to her bureau drawer and took from a hiding place a little piece of paper, yellow with age. [5]
For a long time he was silent, as if astonished, then he jumped out of bed, ran to me in his shirt, and sobbed so that I could not calm him for a long time. [2]
In this dense throng and deafening tumult it was scarcely possible to recover that collected calm which she had found in the morning at her mother's tomb. [10]
Buried in his thoughts, now calm and determined, with a new life grown up in him, a new strength different from the mastering force which gave him a strength in the theatre like one in delirium, he noticed nothing. [11]
It was as though at a sign from the Omnipotent Ruler the storm-lashed ocean had turned to the calm of a land-locked lake. [10]
Natasha was calm, though a severe and grave expression had again settled on her face. [2]
She realized that those noticing her liked her, and this observation helped to calm her. [2]
He is about thirty years old, and has a pale, calm face. [10]
Esaul Lovayski the Third was a tall man as straight as an arrow, pale-faced, fair-haired, with narrow light eyes and with calm self-satisfaction in his face and bearing. [2]
But she carried things off bravely enough, and answered those kind inquiries, which one's friends make when we are in embarrassing situations, with answers so calm and pleasant that people did not know what to think. [11]
Every now and then that calm, good-natured madman would bend a majestic look over his shoulder at us and say, "Ah, you perceive? [5]
For some days the weather had been calm and clear with slight frosts in the mornings--what is called an "old wives' summer. [2]
But she met the warning eye of the man himself, calm and resolute, she saw the suffering in the face, endured with what composure! [11]
Orion had been the victim of blow on blow from Fate--Paula had looked forward to his return with an anxious and aching heart; to-day how calm were their souls, though both stood in peril of death. [10]
In spite of the vehement and indignant tones in which his lodger spoke, the senator remained perfectly calm, and presently went away to ask his wife whether she by chance, while he was asleep, had opened the house to the missing woman. [10]
When Ledscha heard the strokes of the oars she stopped again and, with glowing cheeks, gazed after the boat and the glimmering silver furrow which it left upon the calm surface of the moonlit water. [10]
It was not the state to favor sound, calm observation. [3]
In return, as the stars wheeled on, and the moon stole to the zenith, majestic and slow, Ebn Ezra offered to his troubled friend only the philosophy of the predestinarian, mingled with the calm of the stoic. [11]
In face of the raids, which coincide with the coming of the moon, London is calm, but naturally indignant over such methods of warfare. [9]
The face of the priest was calm and grave, but in his eyes was a deep fire. [11]
He was at the philanthropic centre of a good many movements which he watched others carrying out, as a calm and kindly spectator, without losing his common sense for a moment. [6]
It isn't exactly the old Puritan fatalism, or even the Greek, it's oddly modern, too, almost agnostic, I should say,--a calm acceptance of the hazards of life, of nature, of sun and rain and storm alike--very different from the cheap optimism one finds everywhere now. [9]
Another clasp of the Netherlander's hand, a questioning glance into the Castilian's calm face, and she was forced to consider herself the Emperor Charles's prisoner. [10]
Jane Withersteen awaited the long-deferred breaking of the storm with a courage and embittered calm that had come to her in her extremity. [13]
He looked around the little room, showing so peacefully in the moonlight--the religious symbols, the purity, the cleanliness, the calm poverty. [11]
Mr. Watling was the least excited of them all; remarkably calm, I thought, for a man on the verge of realizing his life's high ambition. [9]
Nobility spoke in the large features, in the generous mouth, in the calm, gray eyes. [9]
The waves of the great movement abate, and on the calm surface eddies are formed in which float the diplomatists, who imagine that they have caused the floods to abate. [2]
Pleasant companionship during the day produced, for the time, the unusual blessing of calm repose at night; and after her friend's departure she was well enough to "fall to business," and write away, almost incessantly, at her story of Villette, now drawing to a conclusion. [14]
He, after disrupting the calm tenor of her peace, after bringing down on her head the implacable hostility of her churchmen, after teaching her a bitter lesson of life--he was to be her salvation. [13]
She bent over the calm river, and saw them shining in the same majestic order as when the dove beheld them gleaming through the swollen waters, upon the mountain tops down far below, and dead mankind, a million fathoms deep. [12]
The water in the basin was moveless, and the air was calm and quiet. [11]
Only he had the air of a man who praises his neighbor without stint, with a calm consciousness that he himself is out of reach of comparison in the possessions or qualities which he is admiring in the other. [6]
In contrast to the agitation I felt rising within me, she was extraordinarily calm, unbelievably so. [9]
He was conscious that the Comtesse Chantavoine had given a little start, and then had become quite still and calm. [11]
I am glad that I conquered the baser part of me; for, almost before I had grown calm again, the bolts of the dungeon doors shot back, and presently Gabord stepped inside, followed by a muffled figure. [11]
A week before that fifteen minutes of calm reflection would have enabled that man to contrive some last words that would have been a credit to himself and a comfort to his family for generations to come. [5]
His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless efforts to seem calm. [2]
He approached the table, and his old calm returned. [11]
A calm salutation,--then swallow and hold hard. [6]
Don't show your surprise, and keep calm. [10]
In a calm summer morning, such as our party of pilgrims chose for an excursion to the Pier, there is no prettier sail in the world than that out of the harbor, by Conanicut Island and Beaver-tail Light. [4]
Others, to whom such weakness seems inconceivable, will find their scepticism shaken, if not removed, by the calm, judicial statement of the Report drawn up for the Royal Academy. [6]

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