"Calm air" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... side of the ditch, separating Almayer's courtyard from the settlement, a crowd of the inhabitants of Sambir looked at the burning house of the white man. In the calm air the flames rushed up on high, coloured pale brick-red, with violet gleams in the strong sunshine. The thin column of smoke ascended straight and unwavering till it lost itself in the clear blue of the sky, and, in the great empty space between ...
— Almayer's Folly - A Story of an Eastern River • Joseph Conrad
... thy mother, the embrace of thy father; hear Roland's low blessing that thou hast helped to minister to the very fame of that son. If thou wilt have ambition, take it,—not soiled and foul with the mire of London. Let it spring fresh and hardy in the calm air of wisdom, and fed, as with dews, by the loving charities ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... calm air with which the marquise seemed to consider the Breton girl as the only creature fit to mate him, Calyste remained ...
— Beatrix • Honore de Balzac |
