Use calmly in a sentence
Sentences starting with calmly
- Calmly and without malice or excitement he reviewed the testimony. [5]
Sentences ending with calmly
- Dick's face whitened with his thoughts, but he kept still until he could speak calmly. [6]
- Really, if I were a young man, I should not be able to draw the portrait of this beautiful creature so calmly. [4]
- At sunrise, Mandane was kneeling by her mistress's couch, weeping bitterly and wondering that Nitetis could sleep so calmly. [10]
- Therefore pilots wisely train these cubs by various strategic tricks to look danger in the face a little more calmly. [5]
- Rainy Saturdays, all too brief, Honora had passed there, when the big dolls' house in the playroom became the scene of domestic dramas which Edith rehearsed after she went to bed, although Mary took them more calmly. [9]
- She was still too agitated by the encounter to be able to talk of the affair calmly. [2]
- He responded, and then, as I turned away from the door, I heard him repeat the good- night cordially and calmly. [11]
- So she felt quite safe from fear of discovery in this quarter, and knowing she was under the protection of the chief of the eunuchs himself, could wait for her lover calmly. [10]
- Gaston eyed the puzzled servant calmly. [11]
- Ameni gave the old man his hand, which trembled with excitement, and went on more calmly. [10]
Short sentences using calmly
- He calmly touched his bell. [5]
- David looked at him calmly. [11]
- She scrutinised him calmly. [11]
- She had listened calmly. [11]
- He bows calmly and kindly. [11]
- He answered calmly. [11]
Sentences containing calmly two or more times
- Yes, I simply rose up calmly, when slammed across the house by the alarm, calmly inspected the annunciator, took note of the room indicated; and then calmly disconnected that room from the alarm, and went back to bed as if nothing had happened. [5]
More example sentences with the word calmly in them
- But the old woman, sure of it beforehand, took his soothsaying quite calmly, and only desired to be carried up to her observatory that she might watch the risings of the stars. [10]
- Thus I listened with increasing fascination to these gentlemen in evening clothes calmly treating the United States as a melon patch that existed largely for the purpose of being divided up amongst a limited and favored number of persons. [9]
- He was covered with dust and debris, his lights went out, but he calmly stepped through the window. [9]
- Now, mention your wish; my heart is as calmly quiet as the Nile waters which are flowing by so quietly, and I am ready to hear it, be it good or evil. [10]
- A later generation will sit in judgment upon the evidence more calmly than our own. [6]
- I will--" "It will all be in vain," said Eulaeus calmly and dispassionately. [10]
- He did--it calmly, whispering to himself the while. [11]
- There are days when the steam ship on the Atlantic glides calmly along under a full canvas, but its central fires must always be ready to make steam against head-winds and antagonistic waves. [4]
- Tingling and perspiring, Wetherell leaned out over the railing as the Speaker rapped calmly for order. [9]
- As the song went on, however, she felt the inherent suggestion in it, so that when she had finished it required all her strength to get up calmly, come among them again, and listen to their praises and thanks. [11]
- It was a wealth that accepted tribute calmly, as of inherent right. [9]
- Softly and calmly we refused to sacrifice, thanked the imperial official, who warned us kindly, and in the same hour and place we fell into the hands of the torturers. [10]
- Suddenly the inspirer was transformed into the man of affairs who calmly proposed the organization of a strike committee, three members of which were to be chosen by each nationality. [9]
- And when it was seen that Richter likewise had no protection, but was calmly smoking the little short pipe, with a charred bowl, a hush fell upon all. [9]
- Paulette Dubois, the wanton woman, had just left his doorway secretly, yet there he was, instantly after, calmly reading a pious book! [11]
- This is all very fine, but let us not be carried away by excitement, but ask calmly, how does this person feel about it in his cooler moments next day, with six or seven thousand feet of snow and stuff on top of him? [5]
- She took it very calmly, for Helene is not a woman to pretend. [9]
- Now then, let us look at this mighty question reasonably, rationally, sanely--yes, and calmly, not excitedly. [5]
- Crozier calmly picked up the handkerchief, saw the lettering, then went quietly to the door of the room and called Mrs. Tynan's name. [11]
- Then as I understand it a bad man's mental machinery calmly and judicially points out which of two things is right and just-- O.M. [5]
- Her brother Sampson under such circumstances would certainly have evinced some confusion or anxiety, but she--all composure--pulled out the tin box, and calmly took a pinch of snuff. [12]
- Then she brought two more--as calmly as she could. [5]
- At the corner, turning fearfully, he perceived the man in the overcoat calmly preparing to unload his wood. [9]
- When the physician turned round and saw her calmly and quietly wiping the cold drops from the sick man's brow, he said gloomily: "Of what use is it to shut our eyes like the ostrich. [10]
- But I have tried to think it over calmly since, and I can see nothing else to have done. [9]
- We saw a tree that bears grapes, and just as calmly and unostentatiously as a vine would do it. [5]
- He was accustomed to thinking of it calmly, sometimes wistfully, even to such a degree that the thought of self-destruction had come upon him as a temptation. [6]
- He turned calmly to the judge. [11]
- Twice he paused to stare at Mr. Hopper, who sat calmly on, and the third time stopped abruptly before him. [9]
- You would like to put a bent pin in their chair when they are about calmly to sit down. [4]
- Wibisma pretended not to hear the provoking words, and, as the fencing-master left the room, walked calmly, with head erect, towards the musician, bowed courteously, and thanked him for the kindness he had shown his son the day before. [10]
- They calmly proceeded to exchange theories. [5]
- When Selene began to breathe more calmly Hannah beckoned her assistant to come close to her and asked in a low voice. [10]
- If you went through the ceremony calmly, or even with sufficient composure not to excite alarm in any present, you are safe beyond question, and in two or three months, to say the most, will be the happiest of men. [7]
- I tell you this, and I tell you quite calmly, that if you prove to be what, for the first time, I have a vision you are, I shall never look upon your face again if I can help it. [11]
- He knew all this and therefore waited calmly for what would happen, with more patience than the horses, especially the near one, the chestnut Falcon, who was pawing the ground and champing his bit. [2]
- But when we think calmly of those days, can we escape without a little pity for the aristocrats? [9]
- The fluctuations of the Washington weather had influenced his dreams, perhaps, for during the recent tempest of applause he had hoisted his gingham umbrella, and calmly gone on with his slumbers. [5]
- That voice is the voice of patience and resignation; that voice is one that bears everything calmly and dispassionately, amid the most distressing scenes; when the fates are arrayed against her peace, and apparently plotting for her destruction, still she is resigned. [5]
- Mechanically he did the same: his pulses beat more calmly, by degrees the visions faded from his senses, he saw and heard once more, and his brain recovered its balance. [10]
- The hope of the revolutionists bore these strokes and others as mighty with complacency, as though they had been so many playful taps; and while the battle surged hotly around him he sat calmly listening or making occasional notes with a gold pencil. [9]
- But Miriam, unheeding the question, calmly continued with a defiant keenness of glance that contradicted her measured speech: "After the Lord's guidance had delivered us from the enemy, the Red Sea washed ashore the most beautiful woman we have seen for a long time. [10]
- He dived into the private office once more, where he found Mr. Crewe seated with his legs crossed, calmly reading a last winter's playbill. [9]
- Ralph Hambleton was the only one who took it calmly, who seemed to derive a certain enjoyment from the affair. [9]
- As to myself, the last remaining link of the Schopper chain whereof Margery hath many times made mention, I am still with you, my dear ones; and I remain but little changed, inasmuch as that my life has ever flowed calmly and silently onward. [10]
- I have taken the inventory of my faculties as calmly as if I were an appraiser. [6]
- Crozier calmly withdrew the cartridges and then tossed the weapon back on the table. [11]
- It is true that the steward's false pride had roused his indignation, and who can listen calmly to any comment on a stain on his birth? [10]
- Could it be that the district attorney was looking calmly on while Mr. Cooke wilfully corrupted the Far Harbor chief-of-police? [9]
- The smiling pride that calmly scorns Those foolish fingers, crimson dyed In laboring on thy crown of thorns! [6]
- And now people talk about geological epochs and hundreds of millions of years in the planet's history as calmly as if they were discussing the age of their deceased great-grandmothers. [6]
- He essayed to take the paper calmly, but it trembled in his hands. [11]
- If we each take calmly whatever befalls us our masters try to heal our wounds, but if we resist may the gods have mercy on us! [10]
- Was his fibre sufficiently tough to become eventually the captain of one of those fortresses, to compete with the Maitlands and the Wings, and others she knew by name, calmly and efficiently intrenched there? [9]
- At last she succeeded in looking more calmly and critically. [10]
- He is a Stoic; and where would be the point of that, if a man could not appear to look on approaching death as calmly as on taking a bath? [10]
- Valmond sat very still, his right hand thrust in his bosom, his forehead bent, his eyes calmly, resolutely, yet distantly, looking at the sergeant, who grew suddenly still also, while the people watched and wondered. [11]
- Each, with his steady, unmoved gaze, his stiffly-curled false wig and beard, and his solemn, deliberate manner, resembled the two huge statues, which, the one precisely similar to the other, stood also motionless in their respective places, gazing calmly into the stream. [10]
- Then he looked steadily and calmly into them. [6]
- Imagine a stranger staking out a mining claim among the costly shrubbery in your front yard and calmly proceeding to lay waste the ground with pick and shovel and blasting powder! [5]
- As she walked speedily away through the piny woods, she calmly echoed: "O! [5]
- As she walked speedily away through the piny woods she calmly echoed: "O! [5]
- We used to speak of a things as a "never-to-be-forgotten" circumstance, instead of cramping it into the simple and sufficient word "memorable" and then going calmly about our business as if nothing had happened. [5]
- Even though the Southern people will not so much as listen to us, let us calmly consider their demands, and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of our duty, we possibly can. [7]
- When the French soldiers first entered the Vier Marchi there was Dormy Jamais on the roof of the Cohue Royale, calmly munching his bread. [11]
- She contemplated her situation clearly and calmly, and quite decided that she would neither quit the cave, nor entrust herself to the anchorite, till she had once more seen and spoken to Polykarp. [10]
- I confess I should like to know, whether Psamtik bears his fate as calmly and bravely as you did twenty-five years ago. [10]
- A sudden anger shook him that she should be there calmly watching such a scene. [9]
- Blaze took his sentence calmly, looking the jury squarely in the eyes, and when the judge stopped, he bowed to him, and then turned to the jury and said: "Gentlemen, you have ruined my life. [11]
- Confident in her sense of innocence, she had looked forward calmly to her fate building her hopes on the much lauded justice of the Arab judges. [10]
- Just then he saw the other calmly turn the big key and take it out of the door. [10]
- I believe I said it calmly, though I was conscious of a shudder and of a paling cheek, in view of the nature of the exploit I was so unreflectingly engaged in. [5]
- Looking into the room, she saw him lying calmly on his bed, and so took courage to enter. [12]
- He did not reply at once, but looked calmly at the Abbe. [11]
- The champion's eyes ran up and down the line and alighted on the large form of De Casson, who calmly watched him. [11]
- These statements look pretty honest, and would seem hard to be explained away, but it is calmly said that he "did not know enough of the method to select the remedies with any tolerable precision. [3]
- She had this poison brought to her, and resolved calmly and deliberately, to take her own life directly the executioner should draw near. [10]
- Of course she pleaded with me just as earnestly as ever, after that blessed day, to quit my pernicious habit, but to no purpose whatever; the moment she opened the subject I at once became calmly, peacefully, contentedly indifferent--absolutely, adamantinely indifferent. [5]
- Leaning against a pillar, he stood looking calmly at the group surrounding the Duke at the great council-table. [11]
- I remembered his passionate affection for Antoinette, I imagined that he would not listen calmly to one who was in some sort connected with her unhappiness. [9]
- I, for my part, could never have writ so fair a letter; and how calmly would Ann now fulfil the duties of each day, while Cousin Maud, albeit her feet scarce might carry her, was here, there, and everywhere, like a Will-o'-the-Wisp. [10]
- So he whipped out a revolver, and bade his rival march before him to the Fort; which Konto very calmly did, begging the favour of a bit of tobacco as he went. [11]
- Then he sent one more telegram, gave the clerk a pound, asked that the reply be sent to him as soon as it came, and went away, calmly smoking his cigar. [11]
- Then he went on as calmly as before: "The princesses were members of our household, and in the course of time they seemed like sisters. [10]
- He wiped it off with his handkerchief, then blowing out the light, he calmly opened the door of the hut, locked it, went out, and moved on slowly towards the house. [11]
- Roscoe calmly took off his coat. [11]
- The Judiciary Committee of the august body did indeed condescend to give hearings, at which the Ribblevale lawyers exhausted their energy and ingenuity without result with only two dissenting votes the bill was calmly passed. [9]
- The swift throbbing of her indignant heart made it impossible for her to think calmly, but its vehement pulsation reminded her of the object of her presence here. [10]
- All these marks of distinction might have turned a weaker brain, but Moor received them calmly, and as soon as he was alone with Ulrich or Sophonisba, appeared no less unassuming and kindly, than at Emmendingen and on the journey through France. [10]
- What she heard of Col. Selby's proposed departure alarmed her more than anything else, and she calmly determined that if he was deceiving her the second time it should be the last. [5]
- Though I was now speaking to Justine Caron, I heard him say quite calmly and firmly: "Yes, I preach, baptise, marry, and bury, and do all I can for those who need help. [11]
- But Archibius, without noticing the enthusiastic ardor, so unusual to his sister's quiet nature, calmly continued: "She won your heart also, and it seems impossible for you to desert her. [10]
- Reading these letters, Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life, he was living so calmly and quietly. [2]
- I said within myself that I would filter the great news through my lips calmly and be serene as a summer morning while I watched its effect in their faces. [5]
- He took a mouthful, and never said a word, but climbed off his horse and lay down calmly in the road. [5]
- At length, once more lifting his wreath and crown, he raised his curls with both hands, and said, quite calmly and decisively; "We must have a Hebe, and must take her where we find her. [10]
- Valmond calmly met Monsieur Garon's pained look, and courteously whispered his name. [11]
- She tried to look calmly at the envelope that contained her fate. [9]
- She could no longer think of him by herself calmly and continuously as she had done before. [2]
- As I was listening to the merriment of the sooty buffoons, I happened to cast my eyes up to the ceiling, and through an open semicircular window a bright solitary star looked me calmly in the eyes. [6]
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