1 Standing the audience faced the actors; who also stood with their collecting boxes quiescent, their looking-glasses hidden, and the robes of their various parts hanging stiff.
2 For suddenly he was aware of the old flame shooting and leaping up in his loins, that he had hoped was quiescent for ever.
3 And he had to come in to her at once, to enter the peace on earth of her soft, quiescent body.
4 Between coming home and dinner she had cut it out, and she sat in the soft quiescent rapture of herself sewing, while the noise of the reading went on.
5 Lady Bertram was perfectly quiescent and contented, and had no objections to make.
6 Smiling as changelessly as an ivory figurine she sat quiescent, avoiding thought, glancing about the living-room and hall, noting their betrayal of unimaginative commercial prosperity.