Lisette was too frightened to react when the policewoman took hold of her arm at the elbow, not forcibly but firmly, as a female relation might, walking Lisette down the stairs, talking to her in a calm, kindly, matter-of-fact voice that signalled, You will be all right.
Her face was clear and bright, her hair a rumpled silver in the odd light, her eyes calm and free of makeup.
When he drew down the sheet the moment of calm was still caught in her features.
Ms. Campins, who lives in San Francisco, says it keeps her son calm and entertained on flights.
Now she doesn't need the machine but meditates, more in tune with her nervous system, able to calm herself through concentrated thought.
Power, calm and confidence oozed from her seated position in a bedroom reading chair.
Her manager said she had left in a very good mood despite calm conditions, but did not want to speak to the media.
As for Miss Megawati, she deserves credit for overseeing a restoration of relative calm and economic growth in Indonesia, but voters see her as a poor communicator and a weak administrator who has done little to rein in the country's rampant corruption.
One of my girlfriends admitted recently she was afraid to tell the women in her mother's group she sometimes has a glass of wine to calm herself down because she thought they'd disapprove.
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Strengthen each one of us to live in the peace of knowing that Vicky is freed from the past with all its hurt and now rests in the calm security of Your loving presence, surrounded by loved ones gone before her.
On her blog, for instance, she recommends that everyone take a few minutes of silence in the morning and before sleeping to be still and silent, which helps her to be more calm and focused.
On the Sunday evening, she gave Vicky a tight hug at the bus stop to calm her nerves about making her way home alone and repeated instructions on where to change buses in Bathgate.
But his healing hands soon also became indispensable to the Tsarina Alexandra who needed him to calm her nerves, cure her headaches, soothe her rages and echo back her own desires in the guise of the word of God.
Lorraine Johnson sobbed in the dock as she awaited sentence and at one point the judge told her to leave the court so she could calm down.
Despite the efforts of legislators to resolve the thornier issues--such as making sure that a woman's decision to have an abortion is not influenced by the idea that her fetus's tissue may help a victim of Parkinson's disease--the current calm in public attitudes may well be fleeting.
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