In more tranquil times a penny-reading style of entertainment will suffice.

That work needed tranquil times, abundant resources, leisure, and assured dominion.

The Yorkshire coast had always been nibbled by erosion, even in more tranquil times.

The consequence is that in tranquil times public functions offer but few lures to ambition.

Here we see that in tranquil times republics are subject to the infirmity of lightly esteeming their worthiest citizens.

What he proposes could hardly be attempted by a prince who came to the throne at a ripe age and in tranquil times.

If the Rule was hard of observance in tranquil times, it was infinitely harder when doors of escape presented themselves on all sides.