Sentence examples for took quiet from inspiring English sources
A modest and reserved man, Mr. Francis took quiet pleasure in his success as an author.
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.
The American military surrounding Falluja -- and, indeed, all across Iraq -- took quiet and nearly invisible steps to prepare for an attack that increasingly seemed inevitable to commanders.
Mr. Rester, who is 44, grew up expecting life to be one long slog, and he took quiet satisfaction from being able to do a hard job in a hard place.
The burghers of Amsterdam took quiet pride in the fact that the Concertgebouw placed first; their rivals in Berlin and Vienna fumed at being second and third; and Philadelphians were scandalized to find their honey-toned group nowhere in the top twenty.
I'd take quiet over light anytime".
* I take quiet time for myself.
"I'd take quiet and boring over loud and divisive every time".
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.
