1 For years that quiet company had mocked his restlessness, his desire for change and freedom.
2 She needn't know anything about it if you keep quiet.
3 To this retreat he descended as soon as the house was quiet, and Zeena's steady breathing from the bed had assured him that there was to be no sequel to the scene in the kitchen.
4 The delay would give her time to quiet her breathing and calm her face so that his suspicions would not be aroused.
5 Yet the serene half-light over Tara's well-kept acres brought a measure of quiet to her disturbed mind.
6 Still there was no sign of Gerald on the quiet winding road.
7 She did, and a sweet quiet thing she is, with never a word to say for herself, like a woman should be.
8 Fury flamed in her, but Gerald waved her quiet with a hand.
9 Gerald's voice was strangely quiet and he spoke slowly as if drawing his words from a store of thought seldom used.
10 She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fiery little husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself.
11 His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
12 Despite her heartache and the pain of unshed tears, a deep sense of quiet and peace fell upon Scarlett as it always did at this hour.
13 She wouldn't overlook a man of marriageable age, from ginger-whiskered old Frank Kennedy, who was Suellen's beau, on down to shy, quiet, blushing Charles Hamilton, Melanie's brother.
14 On the porch steps stood John Wilkes, silver-haired, erect, radiating the quiet charm and hospitality that was as warm and never failing as the sun of Georgia summer.
15 If this fool who was grappling for her hand would only keep quiet for a moment, perhaps she could hear what they were saying.