Lexicographical Neighbors of Quietings
Literary usage of Quietings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"... many cares shall he trouble and vex himself? with how many troubles shall he
break himself? and how many dis- quietings shall he be forced to sustain? ..."
2. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1907)
"... shall hee trouble and vexe himselfe? with how many troubles shall he breake
himselfe? and howe many dis- quietings shall hee bee forced to sustaine? ..."
3. Parochial Sermons by John Henry Newman (1834)
"... these were doubtless meant rather as patterns and helps, or as admonitions
and (if so be) quietings of the agitated mind, than as prayers which it was ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1855)
"And although there are strong symptoms occasionally of the madness of the people,
yet there are movements, and quietings of movements, from time to time, ..."
5. Parochial Sermons by John Henry Newman (1843)
"... these were doubtless meant rather as patterns and helps, or as admonitions
and (if so be) quietings of the agitated mind, than as prayers which it was ..."
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