quietudes

He was too overwrought to heed a small voice in him, a voice born of snow-fields colored with sunset and trained in the quietudes of Henry Frazer's house, which insisted:

The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

Sattvic planes exist; it is something for us to be given glimpses of the pure quietudes of the Spirit in its own place.

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

This was the rainy and hot season, a time of calms and hurricanes, of sudden squalls and maddening quietudes, when all signs fail and the sailor must stand by for the whims of the wind if he would save himself and his ship.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

As the moon solemnly rose through the quietudes of the sky, deep silence as of sleep descended upon the village, where now not the shadow of a living thing stirred.

Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Demetrios Vikelas 1871

There were spellbinding quietudes in the slow movement and that achingly beautiful passage in strings towards the close of the movement showed how phrasing and harmonic clarity as opposed to luxurious upholstering is at the heart of Brahms' emotionalism.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

"What a variety of vain and reftlefs in - quietudes fum up the term of our tran - lient exiftence here! —

Interesting Memoirs: By a Lady. In Two Volumes. ... 1785