It was a lovely evening in the summer; the very air was full of rest and quiet happiness, as though an outward type of the peacefulness and joy which made a heaven of the home of the young married folk.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

Alas, a harder fate is mine, Reft both of realm and queen to pine, And, like the bank which floods erode, I sink beneath my sorrow's load.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

But at the same time, sir, give me leave to observe to you, that I am her guardian, and that I expect, in every instance, that my will is hers.' As she said this, she rose and quitted the room, leaving Emily and Valancourt in a state of mutual embarrassment; and, when Valancourt's hopes enabled him to overcome his fears, and to address her with the zeal and sincerity so natural to him, it was a considerable time before she was sufficiently recovered to hear with distinctness his solicitations and inquiries.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

So Robin arose quickly, and, bidding the landlord not to follow him, left the others gazing at one another, and wond
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

You see how they wheel round and quit the city, and in joy and gladness take the road to Paris.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

reposado, -a , quiet, peaceful.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

throw doubt upon, raise a question; bring in, call in question; question, challenge, dispute; deny &c. 536; cavil; cause a doubt, raise a doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion; ergotize[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

One could see that he wished to pass through the rooms as quickly as possible, finish with the bows and greetings, and sit down to business in front of a map, where he would feel at home.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The Gūna Velamas, Mr. Cain continues, were “formerly regarded as quite an inferior caste, but, as many members of it have been educated in Anglo-Vernacular schools, they have found their way into almost every department and risen in the social scale.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

I really am quite ashamed to have been the cause of your undergoing such severe self-examination; let us drop the subject, and adopt the middle course of delay, which implies neither a rupture nor an engagement.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

and he raced about quite excitedly.
— from The Bobbsey Twins at School by Laura Lee Hope

There was a slight splash, a faint rumble and quiver.
— from Captivating Mary Carstairs by Henry Sydnor Harrison

Moreover, I confess, I was more anxious to reach a quick decision, and place a powerful leader at the head of the Republic, than to organize a perfect republican Constitution.
— from The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Alexis de Tocqueville

Says Tertullian, who was ordained A. D. 192: "Well, if you be willing to exercise your curiosity profitably in the business of your salvation, visit the apostolical churches in which the very chairs of the apostles still preside—in which their authentic letters themselves are recited (apud quæ ipsæ authenticæ literæ eorum recitantur), sounding forth the voice and representing the countenance of each one of them.
— from Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

Judy Kean made a record at Queen’s.
— from Molly Brown's Freshman Days by Nell Speed

Improvements were made in the sale of tobacco received as quitrents, and the rent roll of 1704⁄05 was an improvement over previous ones.
— from Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Walter Stitt Robinson

Uncle Sam's gold—meaning no disrespect to the worthy old gentleman—has, in this respect, a quality of enchantment like that of the devil's wages.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

So far as I understand the public expression, all unite in acquitting the officer, who has ever been a harmless, quiet, good citizen; while Turnham was regarded as a most desperate and dangerous character all abroad, having left Missouri under circumstances most unfavorable to his reputation and quiet here, where he has been particularly sour, irritable, and quarrelsome; and was the more obnoxious as he was reputed brave and generally too stout for his antagonist.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray

SOCRATES: Then let me raise another question; there is such a thing as 'having learned'? GORGIAS:
— from Gorgias by Plato