"Equably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a little, then smoothed itself again to its usual placid expression. "Ah, well!" he said equably, "we won't quarrel about ...
— The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... between the venetian blinds just dusked the room. She stood in a bluish dressing-gown, her hand on her bosom, looking down on the lean impassive face. For the briefest instant her heart had leapt with an indescribable surmise; to fall dull as lead once more. Breathing equably and quietly, the strange figure lay stretched upon the bed. 'How can he sleep? How can he sleep?' she whispered with a black and hopeless indignation. What a night she had ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare
... loam is, in one way, excellent, in another, not so good. So long as we can keep it equably moist without making it muddy it is all right, but if we let it get a little too dry it cracks, and in this way breaks the threads of the spawn and ruins the mushrooms that ...
— Mushrooms: how to grow them - a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure • William Falconer
... said equably. "In any case, to continue: this machine interprets those specific feelings as indications that the mind is being ...
— That Sweet Little Old Lady • Gordon Randall Garrett (AKA Mark Phillips)
... with a sharp inflection. "Be still, Howat," his mother said unexpectedly. "This is all very regrettable, Gilbert," she told her husband; "but it is an impossible subject of discussion." Gilbert Penny continued hotly, "He wouldn't stay about here." She replied equably, "On the contrary, Howat shall be at Myrtle Forge until he ...
— The Three Black Pennys - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... that his wife was there, and that Mr. Bertram was there; and he trusted that he should not fail at any rate in seeing them. He was not by nature a timid man, and had certainly not become so by education; but, nevertheless, his heart did not beat quite equably within his bosom when he knocked at the ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope |
