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Quietly in sentence

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" These men, who had listened quietly, with motionless mute faces, to the fraternal appeals and the friendly attempts to win them over, preserved the same stiff passivity beneath this hail of abuse.
He twisted them in the strength of his fury; while Bouteloup, standing aside, and annoyed at having followed his mate, quietly watched him.
In vain she took Estelle to fill the vacancy; that did not replace her man, and she wept quietly for hours.
With eyes vaguely fixed on the pit in the shadow, Souvarine quietly concluded:"If it does smash up, the mates will know it, since you advise them to go down again."
With his jacket under his arm he quietly went down without a lamp, measuring the depth by counting the ladders.
She had at first tried to free herself; then she began to cry quietly, in her turn taking him by the neck to press him against her in a despairing clasp.
An old miner, however, circumventing the overseers, rushed into the shed; but he quietly reappeared, he had gone for his sabots.
The enormous crank, bent in the air, looked like the powerful knee of some giant quietly reposing in his strength.
The manager had received orders to organize a vast system of espionage, and then to dismiss quietly, one by one, the dangerous men who were suspected of having had a hand in the crime.
She quietly carried them away.
Yes, Maheude had well said, with her good sense, that that would be the great blow--to organize quietly, to know one another, to unite in associations when the laws would permit it; then, on the morning when they felt their strength, and millions of workers would be face to face with a few thousand idlers, to take the power into their own hands and become the masters.
In the stables, over the top of the open doors, one could see great cart-horses quietly feeding from new racks.
This mockery of the first of the sacraments made the Abbe Bournisien angry; old Bovary replied by a quotation from "La Guerre des Dieux"; the cure wanted to leave; the ladies implored, Homais interfered; and they succeeded in making the priest sit down again, and he quietly went on with the half-finished coffee in his saucer.
Looking from her bed at the clean fire that was burning, she still saw, as she had down there, Leon standing up with one hand behind his cane, and with the other holding Athalie, who was quietly sucking a piece of ice.
"It is nothing," said Monsieur Boulanger quietly, taking Justin in his arms.
These stood quietly, stretching out their heads and flowing manes, while their foals rested in their shadow, or now and then came and sucked them.
At last she would begin to undress, then take up a book, and go on reading very quietly as if the book amused her.
The cab came out by the gate, and soon having reached the Cours, trotted quietly beneath the elm-trees.
She leant with both hands against the window, drinking in the breeze; the three horses galloped, the stones grated in the mud, the diligence rocked, and Hivert, from afar, hailed the carts on the road, while the bourgeois who had spent the night at the Guillaume woods came quietly down the hill in their little family carriages.
What! silk for lining at two francs, when you can get jaconet for ten sous, or even for eight, that would do well enough!"Emma, lying on a lounge, replied as quietly as possible—"Ah!
And you sit there quietly in your arm-chair, as if you had not made me suffer enough already!
Old Rouault on his way back began quietly smoking a pipe, which Homais in his innermost conscience thought not quite the thing.
Rodolphe, who, to distract himself, had been rambling about the wood all day, was sleeping quietly in his chateau, and Leon, down yonder, always slept.
As one o'clock struck, he slipped quietly from his room, made sure that the master of the house was sound asleep, and appeared before Madame de Renal.
But Madame de Renal thrust him from her, and continued quite firmly:'My respectable friend M. Chelan made me realise that, in marrying M. de Renal, I had pledged all my affections to him, even those of which I was still ignorant, which I had never felt before a certain fatal intimacy ...Since the great sacrifice of those letters, which were so precious to me, my life has flowed on, if not happily, at any rate quietly enough.
He climbed quietly, pistol in hand, astonished not to find himself attacked.
'It is a cassock,' he said to himself, and quietly seized the pocket pistols which he had placed under his pillow.
'An astonishing thing!' he said to himself, 'I thought that by her letter to M. de La Mole she had destroyed my future happiness for all time, and, in less than a fortnight after the date of that letter, I no longer think of all that was occupying my mind ...Two or three thousand livres a year to live quietly in a mountain village like Vergy ...I was happy then ...I did not recognise my own happiness!'
Across the street, the people were still there at the window, and it was only now that K. had gone up to his window that they seemed to become uneasy about quietly watching what was going on.
The moon shone quietly into the unlit room.
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