An expression of calm resignation had come over her face, as if Symington's story had confirmed some deeply guarded secret.

They awaited with the calmest resignation the death they knew they merited; but Bonaparte merely detained them as hostages.

He sat motionless, his eyes wide as they took in the platter of artfully arranged food, and a look of calm resignation on his face.

There is only the calm resignation of loss, and it pervades every day that she sits in her modest living room with the lights off, thinking about all that could have been.

She wasn't pleading with him, but there was a calm resignation in her expression that made him feel as if he was betraying her.

But there was also a more general feeling of quiet, calm resignation about whatever was about to happen.

Chade's thought was full of calm resignation.

"He 's pretty drunk; but I guess he can hold his horses," replied this evil-minded boy, with an air of calm resignation.

The nervousness in her eyes was now, to her surprise, replaced by a kind of calm resignation.

His academic cap still atop his head, Sir James looks thin and weary; his expression is one of calm resignation, those of the people beside him knowing and tragic.