The garden was quiet. The purple flowers on Giovanni's favorite plant seemed to glow in the evening's fading light.

VOA: special.2011.01.29

Benjamin was a quiet boy. For much of the time, his parents were busy working in his father's store.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

We could not bring in a recorder, but the courtroom is mostly quiet except for the lawyers, witnesses and judge talking.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

At the time,her husband had said: "When I am gone,lay my remains in some quiet place like this."

VOA: special.2010.01.07

A new mother,for example, quickly learns to try to sleep when her baby is quiet, even in the middle of the day.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Anne Morrow was a quiet, shy and small young woman when she met Charles Lindbergh in nineteen twenty-seven.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

But these were quiet. Soldiers from both sides climbed out of long trenches dug in the ground.

VOA: special.2010.10.28

Then he grew quiet. He opened his eyes and said, "Let us pass over the river and rest in the shade of the trees."

VOA: special.2009.10.15

And then we drop in on parties." Some families like to take it easy on January first and enjoy a quiet day of rest.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

And again, Americans all around the country took note of this quiet,serious man who did such effective work in so many different kinds of situations.

VOA: special.2011.02.10

So Missus Lincoln decided that the president's final resting place would be in the quiet, beautiful Oak Ridge Cemetery outside their home town of Springfield,Illinois.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

My quiet father whose voice could hardly be heard in church sang to the oysters!

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Benjamin was a quiet child. He attended Phillips Academy, a private school in Andover,Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

On a sunny morning in eighteen fifty, however,the men of Roaring Camp were quiet.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

In addition,the new bus is very quiet and does not produce noise pollution.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

John Lewis lived a quiet life with his wife, Mirjana,in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

She would live in a quiet hotel and have no work to do.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

The nineteen twenties are remembered as a quiet period in American foreign policy.

VOA: special.2011.02.03

Nothing moved out there in the deep quiet just before sunrise.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

They were in a quiet little town in southern California.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

All is quiet in an American desert at Alamogordo,New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

Maudie was quiet. In the hay,lay a 1ittle wet calf.

VOA: special.2010.01.09