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Quietly in sentence

705 examples of Quietly in a sentence

She was not asleep, but was talking quietly with her mother, making plans for the christening.
How is your head – better?' he said quietly, not wishing to see or understand the gloomy and solemn look on her face.
'The Turks!' answered Koznyshev, quietly smiling, having extracted the bee which, black with honey, moved its legs helplessly.
Could they not go away quietly?
Zacharie and Levaque were quietly roasting their shoulders.
"Now we are off," said Maheu quietly.
In the metal fireplace, which was bright and polished, a coal fire was burning quietly.
It was a well-regulated existence; the forty thousand francs were spent quietly, and the savings expended on Cécile, whose tardy birth had for a moment disturbed the budget.
I live quietly, and it would be too foolish to worry my head over business affairs.
No! one way or another it would have to come to an end, either quietly by laws, by an understanding in good fellowship, or like savages by burning everything and devouring one another.
When she perceived that the child had fled, she shouted and brandished her lean arms, while Pierron, annoyed at the disturbance, strolled quietly away with the air of a husband who can amuse himself with a good conscience, knowing that his wife also has her little amusements.
Philoméne quietly finished putting on her bonnet, and Zacharie took her off, saying that he was quite willing if his mother was willing.
there's Chaval," said Maheu quietly; "he is with Catherine."
On Monday and Tuesday Jeanlin, who was supposed to be quietly engaged on his task at the Voreux, had escaped, to run away into the marshes and the forest of Vandame with Bébert and Lydie.
It was much better to wait quietly for the marriage.
Lénore and Henri, overcome by this storm, cried quietly, while the mother now enumerated their misfortunes: first Zacharie who had had to get married; then old Bonnemort who was there on his chair with his twisted feet; then Jeanlin who could not leave the room for ten days with his badly united bones; and now, as a last blow, this jade Catherine, who had gone away with a man!
"Ah! they are on strike," she said quietly, when he had told her."Well, what has that to do with us?
But we who live quietly, like good citizens as we are, who do not speculate, who are content to live wholesomely on what we have, giving a part to the poor: Come, now! your men must be mere brigands if they came and stole a pin from us!"Négrel himself had to calm him, though amused at his anger.
Slowly and quietly she was putting back her breast with both hands.
Having himself gone to shut it, he quietly sat down in one of the office chairs.
Public opinion, which had at first been moved, grew indifferent now that the strike dragged on for ever, and so quietly, without any dramatic incidents.
He made the child swear not to sleep out, as had sometimes happened when he forgot himself in his hay, and taking a candle-end, he went away first, leaving him to pursue quietly his domestic affairs.
For a moment Jeanlin was in terror, Bébert having learned through a trammer that Madame Rasseneur had seen them steal Poland; but when he had decided to go back and quietly release the beast at the door of the Avantage, he shouted louder than ever, and opened his new knife, brandishing the blade and proud of its glitter.
Talk quietly and I will hear you."
So when the cavalry and police quietly took the road back to Marchiennes, after contenting themselves with deafening the settlements by the stamping of their horses over the hard earth, the miners jeered at this innocent prefect and his soldiers who turned on their heels when things were beginning to get hot.
Then he quietly returned and seated himself at his desk.
And at midday he lunched alone in the large dining-room, served so quietly by the servant that he could not even hear his slippers.
M. Hennebeau quietly endeavoured to do the honours of his house.
And behind them the Marchiennes pastrycook's vehicle, a little covered cart which had been confided to their care, at last arrived, and a small drudge of a boy jumped down and quietly unpacked the crusts for the vol-au-vent.
Pierron was quietly coming back from the wash-house with the bundle of linen on his shoulder.
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