at ease

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at ease

without worry or anxiety. The performer is at ease on the stage. After she had met a few people, Mary felt at ease with the group.

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I will tell you: in consequence of their limitation they take immediate and secondary causes for primary ones, and in that way persuade themselves more quickly and easily than other people do that they have found an infallible foundation for their activity, and their minds are at ease and you know that is the chief thing. Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context His legs were weary, but his mind was at ease, free from the presentiment of change. Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context Thence more at ease thir minds and somwhat rais'd By false presumptuous hope, the ranged powers Disband, and wandring, each his several way Pursues, as inclination or sad choice Leads him perplext, where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts, and entertain The irksome hours, till his great Chief return. Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context			at a rate of knots at a set time at a sitting at a snail's pace at a stretch at a time at all costs at all hours at all times at an early date at an end at any cost at any price at any rate at bay at beck and call at best at close range at convenience at cross purposes at cross-purposes at death's door at doorstep at each other's throats at earliest convenience at ease at elbow at every turn at expense at face value at fault at fingertips at first at first blush at first glance at first hand at first light at first sight at full blast at full speed at full strength at full stretch at great length at half-mast at hand at hazard at heart at heels at home at home with at issue			AT command AT command AT Command Interpreter AT command set at convenience at convenience at convenience at cross purposes at cross purposes at cross-purposes at cross-purposes at cross-purposes at daggers drawn at daggers drawn at death's door at death's door at death's door at death's door at death's door At Deaths Door At discovert At discretion at disposal at disposal at disposal at doorstep at each other's throats at earliest convenience at earliest convenience at earliest convenience at ease at elbow at elbow at elbow at elbow at elbow At erst at every corner at every corner at every corner at every corner at every turn at every turn at every turn at every turn at every turn at expense at expense at expense at expense at face value at father's knee at father's knee at father's knee at fault at fault at fault at fault at fault at feet at feet

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