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Quietly in sentence

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He lay there, quietly smoking a cigar, until about eleven o'clock.
K. nodded, and quietly cursed Kaminer who worked at his bank and who was always active doing things that had neither use nor purpose.
It was only when one of the people up on the podium drew his attention to the youth that the man turned to him and leant down to hear what it was he quietly said.
Below them in the hall the people talked to each other quietly but animatedly.
It must have been especially troublesome for those visitors who were in the gallery, as they were forced to quietly ask the participants in the assembly what exactly was happening, albeit with timid glances at the judge.
"There is no doubt," he said quietly, "that there is some enormous organisation determining what is said by this court.
He would have liked just to sit quietly where he was until he had enough strength to leave, and the less fuss people made about him the sooner that would be.
"Don't worry too much about him laughing," said the girl to K., who had become unhappy once more and stared quietly in front of himself as if needing no further explanation.
As they approached the corridor, the girl said quietly into K.'s ear, "I must seem to think it's very important to show the information-giver in a good light, but you shouldn't doubt what I say, I just want to say the truth.
asked K. quietly, but crossly and without thinking.
Almost in tears, he ran to the servitors working quietly at the copying machine.
After I had been waiting quietly for quite a long time I asked one of the staff whether his meeting would last much longer.
Not a criminal trial, I hope?""It's a criminal trial," answered K."And you sit quietly here while you've got a criminal trial round your neck?" shouted his uncle, getting ever louder.
"Maybe," said the lawyer quietly, "but it's just as much trouble as it's ever been.
Dr. Huld's carer was still leant far over the invalid's bed and smoothing out the cloth covering the wall next to it, she merely turned her head and then, in striking contrast with the anger that first stopped K.'s uncle from speaking and then let the words out in a gush, she said very quietly, "You can see that Dr. Huld is so ill that he can't discuss any matters at all."
K. was able to quietly watch everything as nobody paid any attention to him, the office director took over as leader of the conversation as seemed to be his habit once he had been called forward, the lawyer listened attentively with his hand to his ear, his initial weakness having perhaps only had the function of driving away his new visitors, K.'s uncle served as candle-bearer - balancing the candle on his thigh while the office director frequently glanced nervously at it - and was soon free of his embarrassment and was quickly enchanted not only by the office director's speaking manner but also by the gentle, waving hand-movements with which he accompanied it.
But even I'm vain and that makes me very unhappy that you don't like me."K. replied to that last comment merely by embracing Leni and drawing her towards him, she lay her head quietly on his shoulder.
Before K. had had the time to answer, the manufacturer came up close to him, tapped his knuckle lightly on his chest and said quietly, "You've got a trial going on, haven't you?"K. stepped back and immediately exclaimed, "That's what the deputy director's been telling you!""No, no," said the manufacturer, "how would the deputy director know about it?"
Nonetheless, K. looked for a while at the door, behind which the girls were now sitting quietly on the steps.
At first, K. was astonished at this orderly explanation, but then, just as quietly as the painter, he said, "I think you're contradicting yourself."
"But they also prevent his being properly acquitted," said K. quietly, as if ashamed to acknowledge it.
"You're a client of the lawyer's too, aren't you," said the businessman quietly from his corner as if he were trying to find this out.
"After a certain point in the proceedings," said the lawyer quietly and calmly, "nothing new of any importance ever happens.
The lawyer quietly accepted even this insulting question, and answered, "I should continue with what I've already been doing for you."
But it was also difficult for him to listen, as the lawyer was speaking into the wall and speaking quickly and quietly.
If you think being allowed to sit there and quietly listen while I creep on all fours as you put it makes you something better than me, then there's an old legal saying you ought to bear in mind: If you're under suspicion it better to be moving than still, as if you're still you can be in the pan of the scales without knowing it and be weighed along with your sins."
asked K. quietly, he did not dare call out loud here; but then he drew out his purse and pushed his way through the nearest pews to reach the man.
Behind K.'s back one of them seemed to quietly criticise the other for the misunderstanding about stopping, and then they went on.
And he went off quietly after he had drunk it and got into another carriage, which I thought mean.
You know the way, you slip off quietly and go to Kingston."
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