She herself felt perfect calm, a silence at her center of being.

It was the perfect calm with which he spoke that incensed Michael.

The wind, after veering to the west, had sunk to a perfect calm.

At last we were in a perfect calm.

"This is neither the time nor the place to conduct our business," he said with perfect calm.

It seemed as if this perfect calm might continue for ever.

"You have come to an erroneous conclusion," he said, perfect calm in his voice.

"I never thought a man could face death with such perfect calm," she said.

It was, to twist the metaphor of a recent book, a perfect calm.

Standing there in perfect calm, looking straight at him, was his white horse.