...gracious, howbenignBreathes through our troubled life that voice of thine, Filled with a sweetness born of happier spheres, That wins and warms, that kindles, softens, cheers, That calms the wildest woe... — The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes...
it was doing anything but beingquiescenton solid earth; but that was because, as Fritzing explained, there was a dead calm, and in dead calms—briefly, he explained the conduct of boats in dead calms with much patience, and Priscilla remarked when he had done that they might then, after....