Literary notes about Equable (AI summary)
Writers employ the term “equable” to evoke a sense of steadiness and uniformity in both physical and emotional contexts. In descriptions of nature and climate, it characterizes a consistent, mild environment—be it in reference to heat, moisture, or temperature, as seen when landscapes and weather are portrayed as unvarying and balanced [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. The word also underscores character traits and moods, suggesting a calm, unflappable temperament or eloquence, whether describing a person’s gaze, voice, or inner disposition [8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17]. Beyond its literal applications, “equable” functions metaphorically to illustrate processes and distributions that are smooth and even, capturing a rhythm or pace that is free from disruption [18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23]. This versatile usage enriches literary works by linking physical steadiness with emotional and moral balance, creating an atmosphere of harmonious moderation throughout the narrative [24, 25, 26].
- This keeps them in an equable heat and moisture.
— from The Book of Roses by Francis Parkman - Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.
— from The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life by Francis Parkman - The temperature is as mild as that of Mentone, and more equable.
— from A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gertrude Forde - Speaking generally, the climate of Devonshire may be described as warm and moist and remarkably equable.
— from Devonshire by Francis A. (Francis Arnold) Knight - Sleeping rooms should be well ventilated, and the air maintained at a equable temperature of as near 60° Fahr.
— from - The climate of San Francisco is mild and singularly equable.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain - 40-4 Ranchi lies 2000 feet above sea level; the climate is mild and equable.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - “To one who knows how good you are, how tender, how equable in anger, how loving, you are tenfold greater still.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac - No distrust of themselves, no rash misgivings to interrupt the smooth course of their equable lives!
— from The Wicker Work Woman: A Chronicle of Our Own Times by Anatole France - “You do not look frightened,” he pronounced, after surveying her conscientiously with his tired and equable gaze.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad - Then in his polite, weary, equable voice, he said, "Well, I must try and think.
— from The Youth of Parnassus, and Other Stories by Logan Pearsall Smith - He was of a most equable temperament, and there has been no change of late.”
— from The Man Who Fell Through the Earth by Carolyn Wells - As he advanced in years, he learned to love peace, and his once irascible temper became calm and equable.
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack - Nothing in the whole adventure, not even the upset, had disturbed the calm and equable current of Mr. Pickwick’s temper.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - If caught young they are easily tamed, and are of an equable and gentle disposition.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol 7, No. 3, March 1900 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various - His disposition was equable and cheerful; he sang when he saw that I was in good humor, he held his peace when I was pensive.
— from Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) by Paul de Kock - He was generally very equable and good-tempered.
— from The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes - The arrangement of springs and other contrivances to prevent shocks, and to secure an equable motion, are admirable and perfectly effectual.
— from Letters of a Traveller; Or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by William Cullen Bryant - It flowed in a steady, equable current, unvexed by storm or tempest.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch - In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity to receive and to take from others.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - Wave follows wave with equable gainings and recessions, the one sliding back in fluent music to be mingled with and carried forward by the next.
— from English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden - Hence, a more equable division of a nation's resources among the people would increase the amount of money needed.
— from Principles of Political Economy, Vol. 1 by Wilhelm Roscher - This wheel serves as a fly to make the motion equable, when the spindle with the glasses is turned by the foot like a spinning-wheel.
— from Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends by Edward Everett Hale - She preserved an equable cheerfulness in the midst of her sympathy, which was not the least astonishing part of the change that had come over her.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - Still, soft, equable, serene, oh, misty mountain moonlight what didst thou hold?
— from A Sovereign Remedy by Flora Annie Webster Steel
