The simple elegance of their attire, the indescribable air of polish, particularly in the former, and the surpassing beauty and modesty of mien of both, effectually silenced criticism, after this solitary outbreaking of vulgarity.

" There was a moment of deathly silence, except for my counting and the heavy breathing of the trapped prisoners.

The men, leaving the boats towing alongside, rushed to the guns, and the heavy fire of the "Falcon" speedily silenced her opponents.

The silence in the streets outside seemed somehow to have become communicated to the line, the space between them emptied of all the jarring sounds of the day.

Never didst thou laugh; no, not even when in discussing how silence might be rendered in music, thou didst say, with thy extraordinary Pyrenean accent, "Pour rendre le silence en music il me faudrait trois orchestres militaires."

The room was the same as that which he remembered, all gold and red damask, lighted from the roof, with the great brass-inlaid writing table at the farther end, and the broad settee against the right-hand wall, but it seemed to him in his apprehensiveness that the solemnity was greater and the hushed silence even deeper.

Nay, if we come to reason upon it, they rank higher in this matter than man; for while the wolf does no violence to the laws of its instincts, man often deliberately silences the voice of conscience, and violates the laws of his own nature.

You may silence discontent, you may suppress spiteful innuendos and even sulky looks, you may put down mutiny, by sheer terror.

Des porches de l'abîme, antres hideux, cavernes Que nous nommons enfers, puits, gehennams, avernes, Bouches d'obscurité qui ne prononcent rien; Du vide où ne flottait nul souffle aérien; Du silence où l'haleine osait à peine éclore, Ceci se dégageait pour

The church had silenced me so effectuately, that even now all my sense of the great need of words could not induce me to attempt it; but if I could "plead the cause" through the press, I must write.

I'll see her now See once again that proud and beauteous form, That mouth which drew in breath and breathed out life, And which, now silenced ever, evermore, Accuses me of guarding her so ill. ESTHER.

" He was surrounded and forcibly silenced.

Now in ghastly silence deathly, Now with shrilling elfin cry Is it some mad dance of bridal, Or a death march passing by?

Squire Clamp was an ill-favored man, heavy-browed and bald, and with a look which, in a person of less consequence, would have been called "hang- dog,"owing partly, no doubt, to the tribulation he had suffered from his vixen spouse, whose tongue was now happily silenced.

" The Duke attempted to remonstrate, but he was haughtily silenced; and thus saw himself compelled to retire from the presence of the irritated Princess with the conviction that he had utterly failed to produce the effect anticipated from his mission.

For some time past, the nursery-maids had invariably silenced refractory children with "Fie, Miss Matilda!

It broke upon the silence startlingly loud, and after an interval the report reverberated in a series of crashes from height after height, dying down into a dull murmur from the steep most distant.

" And to this, silence only!silence to him to whom words of her dictation, however few and terse and filtered through no matter how many indifferent mediums of intelligence, would have been precious beyond expression.

The German guns shut up like a knife, but whether they were actually hit or merely silenced, it was, of course, impossible to say.

Taciturnity N. silence, muteness, obmutescence^; taciturnity, pauciloquy^, costiveness^, curtness; reserve, reticence &c (concealment) 528.

There was to my mind a threat in the weather, expressed in the silence overhead, as well as in the sullen swell underfoot.

Many strange conjectures had for years been current to account for his being kept so long away from home; but they were partially silenced when it was known that the young man was on his way to his paternal roof.

The last two valuable articles had been bought at auction, and some of the keys of the piano had been permanently silenced by its ride in an ox-cart from Red Owl to Metropolisville.

Theodor Wolff was personally silenced for several months.

She had not grown used to the novelty of being included, but any instinctive objections to the plan were promptly silenced by Mrs. Condor's enthusiastic approval.