"Equably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... many of us, and too few of you," explained Bagby, equably. "Now the Committee has sent orders to each county committee to make out a list of those we think ought to be arrested, and a meeting 's to be held this afternoon to act on it. Old Hennion he came to me last night and said he wanted your name put on, and he'd vote to recommend ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
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... all seasons, even with the happiest; but after a long course, the rocks subside, the views widen, and it flows on more equably at the end. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various
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... of footsteps on the pavement died out in the discreet dimness of the shop. Only the gas-jet above the table went on purring equably in the brooding ...
— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad
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... he is drunk,' ii. 351; 'Equably drunk,' iii. 389; 'People who died of dropsies, which they contracted in trying to get drunk,' v. 249; 'A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk,' ...
— Life of Johnson, Volume 6 (of 6) • James Boswell
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