1 He is perfectly quiet and comfortable now.
2 It seemed like quiet music for the repose of the dead.
3 She hasn't much strength in her, so I easily kept her quiet.
4 The man went to the door, and returned to announce that all was quiet.
5 It was no unfit messenger of death, who had disturbed the quiet of the matron's room.
6 The quiet place, the pure air, and all the pleasure and beauties of spring, will restore you in a few days.
7 A minute ago, the boy had looked the quiet child, mild, dejected creature that harsh treatment had made him.
8 Still, the same quiet life went on at the little cottage, and the same cheerful serenity prevailed among its inmates.
9 I see you were not,' said the stranger; an expression of quiet sarcasm playing about his mouth; 'or you have known my name.
10 I have promised for your being quiet and silent; if you are not, you will only do harm to yourself and me too, and perhaps be my death.
11 The terrified children cried bitterly; but the old woman, who had hitherto remained as quiet as if she had been wholly deaf to all that passed, menaced them into silence.
12 The Jew, smiling hideously, patted Oliver on the head, and said, that if he kept himself quiet, and applied himself to business, he saw they would be very good friends yet.
13 Everything was so quiet, and neat, and orderly; everybody so kind and gentle; that after the noise and turbulence in the midst of which he had always lived, it seemed like Heaven itself.
14 The boy was very ill, he said, and weak from the loss of blood; but his mind was so troubled with anxiety to disclose something, that he deemed it better to give him the opportunity, than to insist upon his remaining quiet until next morning: which he should otherwise have done.
15 The coach rattled away, over nearly the same ground as that which Oliver had traversed when he first entered London in company with the Dodger; and, turning a different way when it reached the Angel at Islington, stopped at length before a neat house, in a quiet shady street near Pentonville.
16 The old lady made no reply to this; but wiping her eyes first, and her spectacles, which lay on the counterpane, afterwards, as if they were part and parcel of those features, brought some cool stuff for Oliver to drink; and then, patting him on the cheek, told him he must lie very quiet, or he would be ill again.
17 He had scarcely the power of understanding anything that had passed, until, after a long ramble in the quiet evening air, a burst of tears came to his relief, and he seemed to awaken, all at once, to a full sense of the joyful change that had occurred, and the almost insupportable load of anguish which had been taken from his breast.
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