"Suave" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... attendants, the suave and far-seeing prelate made his way with gravity and reverend ceremony down the streets of ...
— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... towards Droulde had undergone a change. He had become suave and unctuous, a kind of elephantine irony pervading his laborious attempts at conciliation. He and the Public Prosecutor would be severely blamed for this day's work, if the popular Deputy, relying upon the support of the people of Paris, chose to ...
— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... "Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis spectare laborem...." I forget how it runs further! My latin gets weak. I wish I had Virgil, or even "Commentarii de Bello Gallico." I'd be arrested and tried if I asked for them ...
— Rescuing the Czar - Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated • James P. Smythe
... had looked at Severance; her eyes had rested on him long enough to make comparisons—Severance much improved, cool, suave, presentable, and deferential; her husband big and masterful, a brooding, preoccupied man, and a kind of Orson to be kept denned in his money caves. ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... in a way, he was with them. His enigmatic personality, his seldom-seen figure was very present in their minds, and with it were overtones of all the diabolic cunning and suave ironic cruelty that men always associated with him. "He comes out of darkness, out of empty space...." Friday licked his lips. He was not built for mental strain: his lips kept drying and ...
— The Affair of the Brains • Anthony Gilmore
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