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adverb

Quietly adv.

In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly.

Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly.

Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; patiently; as, to submit quietly to unavoidable evils.

Noiselessly; silently; without remark or violent movement; in a manner to attract little or no observation; as, he quietly left the room.

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"Quietly" Quotes from Famous Books

... I was drinking quietly and thinking deeply on the wisdom of my father, who knew the world better than ever his son will know it, when there was an unexpected knock at the door, and in walked Doctor Chord. I was not too pleased to see the little man, for I had feared he had changed his mind and wanted ...

— The O'Ruddy - A Romance • Stephen Crane

... lurchers, a kind of dog which of all others can be most easily taught to steal. It is not long since a friend of mine, early one morning between dark and dawn, saw a lurcher crossing the Thames with a rabbit in his mouth. Landing very quietly, the dog went to a Gipsy tan, deposited his burden, and at once returned ...

— The English Gipsies and Their Language • Charles G. Leland

... governed by the same methods, and on the same principles, by which an individual without authority is often able to govern those who are his equals or even his superiors, namely, by a knowledge of their temper, and by a judicious management of it; that is, when public affairs are steadily and quietly conducted, not when government descends to a continued scuffle between the magistrate and the multitude, in which sometimes the one and sometimes the other is uppermost; each alternately yielding and prevailing in a series of contemptible ...

— James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist • John Clark Ridpath

... him then. Dal had gone into the reception room and closed the doors. And because he had been acting so strangely, and partly to escape from Max, whose eyes looked threatening, I followed him. Just as I opened the door quietly and looked in, Dallas switched off the lights, and I could hear him groping his way across the room. Then somebody—not ...

— When a Man Marries • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... and was about to say something, when some flashing thought, perhaps a realizing sense of their relative positions, closed her lips. "I remember very clearly now." She spoke quietly, then she closed her eyes for a second; when she opened them they ...

— Dan Merrithew • Lawrence Perry

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