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Definition of Stillnesses
1. stillness [n] - See also: stillness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stillnesses
Literary usage of Stillnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. California: An Intimate History by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1914)
"A year or two later the Americans would have lynched him; but Sutter, knowing
the effect of the terrible stillnesses under falling snow, the monotonies of a ..."
2. Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton by Frederick William Robertson (1869)
"God dwells in the thick darkness. Silence knows more of Him than speech. His Name
is Secret: therefore beware how you profane His stillnesses. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1901)
"... as myself than these sudden breakages of silence,—the causeless inception of
speaking after unnatural stillnesses— and above all, the mechanism of it; ..."
4. The Simple Life by Charles Wagner, Mary Louise Hendee (1901)
"days in these inviolate stillnesses, watching « bird build its nest or brood over
its young, or some little groundling at its gracious play. ..."
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