Sentence examples for calm countryside from inspiring English sources

Then listen to the gritty "Big City" and you understand why he retreated to the calm countryside.

There are beautiful beaches, calm seas, pretty countryside and small historic towns.

Little seems to have changed since Constable painted here almost 200 years ago – you'll recognise the calm of the countryside depicted in works such as The Haywain.

So, a composite character almost appears: a man who thinks atheism is not a matter of reason but of feeling, who believes Las Vegas offers an epochal excitement comparable with early Gothic, who thrills to the roar of a fighter plane shattering the calm of the countryside and responds positively to 18-wheel rigs thundering past his side mirror, who likes music at 130 beats a minute.

"He should seek the calm of the countryside and find his deepest happiness and tranquillity of body and mind," Denman wrote.

So I felt happy in the simple nostalgic calm of the English countryside, with hamlets called things like Old Wives Lees and roads called Frog Hole Lane.

But in practice, while the capital, Bangui, may be relatively calm, much of the countryside remains in a state of seething anarchy, with far too few foreign troops available to fill the power vacuum.

Rice and fuel subsidies have helped pacify the cities (but depressed rice production) and pensions for veterans of the resistance and vulnerable old people have calmed tensions in the countryside.

Such a history of thought led the Chinese to take keen pleasure in the calm landscape of the remote countryside.

Friends and relatives said she seemed happy on Saturday morning as she came in from the countryside to this usually calm.

But little by little the city of Kandahar, and increasingly the countryside around it, have calmed.