Sentence examples for takes quiet from inspiring English sources

Yet another is apt to "quote lines written in stone and papyrus" and takes quiet comfort in his erudition.

When he is not tending shop, he works on his three-story house and takes quiet walks along the beach.

The ancient reverend who presides over the service takes quiet satisfaction in speaking for the lost and for the damned, particularly those anonymous, faceless drowned corpses that sometimes wash up on Iceland's stony shores.

I'd take quiet over light anytime".

* I take quiet time for myself.

A modest and reserved man, Mr. Francis took quiet pleasure in his success as an author.

"I'd take quiet and boring over loud and divisive every time".

Samuel taught him that inch by inch, everything is a cinch, that he should always take quiet time out for himself.

But Lopez took quiet, dignified satisfaction from watching the Sox win the pennant with a 6-3 victoverover the Angels on Sunday night.

Michael took quiet refuge at the town library, where he read biographies: Hesketh Pearson on Wilde and Hazlitt, Hugh Kingsmill on Dickens and Samuel Johnson.

Disraeli made no concession whatever to these people, biding his time, cunningly manoeuvring himself into a position of indispensability, all the while taking quiet pleasure in provoking them.