I passed quiet children and quieter fishermen (everyone here seemed to be serene); sat on a rock and watched trout jumping; and on completing the circle, stretched out lazily in the sun.
The drinkers are there to sit in silence and stare at a Metro, or to pass quiet comments between each other.
BELLE CHASSE, LA. -- Before the explosion, the oil spill, the declarations of "environmental crisis" or the emergency visit by President Obama, 126 oil riggers were passing another quiet night on the Gulf of Mexico.
Still, people have a right to what passes for quiet.
The following five days passed with quiet, contemplative stretches followed by similar jolts of excitement.
The Northern route passes through quiet countryside to Cornwall's famous sandy beaches.
They pass up quiet nights at home with their women and wait in their coops, staring at the sky.
The route passed through quiet villages, like Vila do Bispo, with its yellow and white houses, before the flower meadows gave way to deep valleys and pine trees.
Being now three score and ten, and the eighth time general, he was in hope to pass in quiet, not only the year of his magistracy, but his remaining life.
We pass the Quiet Woman antiques shop and it seems today is going to be a day when we ooh and aah going through places, but don't have time to stop.
Anyway — she was exhausted — we passed a quiet afternoon, no cross words or anything like that — but I could see she was in a very bad state of depression and [I] didn't know what to do, really, except try to get her to rest.
