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Definition of Tranquillities
1. tranquillity [n] - See also: tranquillity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tranquillities
Literary usage of Tranquillities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Incomparable Siddons by Florence Mary Wilson Parsons (1909)
"There he left me; and I, in one of what I call my desperate tranquillities, which
usually impress me under terrific circumstances, there completed my dress, ..."
2. The Garden of Asia: Impressions from Japan by Reginald John Farrer (1904)
"The boat glides forward ; no other word will express the silky softness with
which the skiff passes as in a trance over the misty tranquillities of the bay, ..."
3. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"... our tranquillities. What we magnify is magnificent, but, like to the Colossus,
noble without, stuffed with rubbish and coarse metal within. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"There he left me, and I, in one of what I call my desperate tranquillities which
usually impress me under terrific circumstances, there completed my dress, ..."
5. Works by Washington Irving (1897)
"thus matured and mellowed by a long lapse of years—there is something truly
congenial in the quiet enjoyment of our early autumn, amid the tranquillities of ..."
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