The chamber where they arrived was cold and dark, the Ancient systems running quiescently in the background.

The space-blob had been sitting quiescently all this time.

Hear it approach with its tinkling promise of quiescently frozen carbohydrates.

Obviously the saucer was not sitting there quiescently for ten minutes while we set up to smudge its window.

The Gillikinese men came and stood quiescently ready.

Popsicles are also called "quiescently frozen confections" because of the way they're frozen.

Sand coiled quiescently on the dark matting.

Ordinarily the recorder would lie essentially suppressed, quiescently tracking only the routine mechanical functions of the ship.

It beat quiescently, obediently, and troubled her not at all, and she finally accepted that it had recovered.

Most of the Czech population obeyed quiescently up until the final months preceding the end of the war, while thousands were involved in the resistance movement.

He hovered quiescently.

Julia sank down on to the settee, peering timidly at the beautiful empty shell slumped quiescently beside her.

Eleanor voiced her own opinions now instead of quiescently accepting other people's, and she no longer watched over her shoulder, fearful of past shadows.

Conner nodded quiescently.

I can exploit them, as I did tonight, or I can make them lie quiescently by my side like a slumbering lover."

An image flashed into his mind of Turego bending his head to press his mouth to Jane's, and the way Jane had stood so quiescently to accept that kiss.

And it is not a vegetable-based dessert, a tofu-based mix, a frozen yogurt, a quiescently frozen confection, a granito, a kefir, a so-called popsicle, a sorbet, a sorbetto, or a pudding.

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In his craziest and best book, "The Fermata" (1994), an office temp (a temp: got it) can stop time and, in a quiescently frozen world, undress literally statuesque women and manhandle himself, without a second having elapsed.

At this point Miss Pao stopped talking and swiveled her eyes in the direction of Chang, who was standing quiescently with his hands clasped behind his back, staring down at the floor as if his thick neck had finally given way under the weight of his head.