117 adjectives to describe stillness

It was a beautiful and calm evening, the solemn stillness of which, was only broken by the 'tza! tza!' of thousands of katydids among the bushes.

Not a leaf trembled; for if one had trembled near him he would have heard it whisper in that profound stillness that made him hold his breath to listen.

"It's the awful stillness."

Beyond the gentle murmur of the sea, an intense stillness prevailed.

This remembered resemblance, or an instinctive sympathy, at once conveyed to me the consciousness that the absolute stillness of her attitude expressed a horror or an awe too deep for trembling.

Death, God's final compulsion to prayer, in its dread, its gloom, its utter stillness, its apparent nothingness, urges the cry.

Then, the oppressive stillness is broken by a little eldritch scream of wind, that sweeps 'round the house, and dies away, remotely.

Not a chirp, not a rustle broke the intense, unnatural stillness.

Men were talking in low tones of confidence, and in that calm stillness of evening they appeared nearer to me than they actually were.

She floated with me close alongside, guided me to a restful grove midst shimmering weeds that made a soft and silken couch, where in the sweet stillness, lulled by the lap of gentle ripples against weed, or shell, or bending sea-flowers, I glided off to dreamless slumber.

But her eyes were riveted on the floor, her cheeks were bloodless, and her voice so low, that nothing but the breathless stillness he observed, would have allowed the young man to hear it, where he sat.

How is Aunt Marthe?" "She is well," she answered with a sudden stillness in her voice.

New light broke in upon them, and the ominous stillness was followed by a general demand for the patron to point out the man.

With a dreadful stillness in her voice, she repeated the man's last words, "Seven passengers badly hurt, and two"

"We saw the giant shadow as it left us and passed over the lands of the untutored Indian; they saw it as it approached from the distant west, as it fell upon the peaks of the mountain-tops, and, in the impressive stillness, moved directly for our camping-ground.

The wondrous, wondrous stillness of the sceneand to think that over yonder, in the dark depths of the forest, fifty, perhaps a hundred, men were waiting for himfor him?

From unfriendly frozen deserts they passed, through eternal stillness, into the snow wilderness that seemed to stretch forever.

The shades of evening approached as we reached the ground, and just as the encampment was completed the atmosphere grew suddenly dark, the heat became oppressive, and an unusual stillness presaged the immediate setting in of the monsoon.

Mark let off a fresh volley of profanity, and as the wolves seemed preparing for a rush, WESTCOTT'S rifle broke the frozen stillness of the woods, and old grey-back turned a summerset and went down.

Occasionally the front of a palace received the rays on its heavy cornices and labored columns, the gloomy stillness of the interior of the edifice furnishing, in every such instance, a striking contrast to the richness and architectural beauty without.

A mysterious, sepulchral stillness pervaded the place, and when I entered the long room I found myself unconsciously treading lightly so as not to disturb the silence; even as one might on entering some Egyptian tomb-chamber hidden in the heart of a pyramid.

In the tense stillness they could hear only the sad murmur of the river gliding under the darkness andnow and thenthe sudden hurrying of footsteps in the chamber overhead where the wounded man lay.

We are flung into a pleasing Astonishment at such unbounded Views, and feel a delightful Stillness and Amazement in the Soul at the Apprehension[s] of them.

However, there was none, other than from the nearness of some twenty sets of powerful lungs, which would not leave the night to a deadly stillness.

The town, with its unrest, faded from their minds, and the forest, with its peaceful stillness, enfolded them.

117 adjectives to describe  stillness