Palmer was strangely silent.

As they walked back to the town together Gifford noticed that his companion was unusually silent, and he tactfully forbore to break in upon his preoccupation.

Donnegan was discreetly silent, knowing that silence extracts secrets.

John is obstinately silent; and, as for all these other gentlemen, I fear they have decidedly taken sides against me.

On went the company, grimly silent now save for the snort of a horse, the champing of curbing bits and the thud of slow trampling hoofs upon the tender grass, as the west flamed to sunset.

The village seemed curiously silent and deserted.

The Vesper-bird begins with all his kindred in a general concert at early dawn, after which they are comparatively silent until sunset, when they repeat their concert, with still greater zeal than they chanted in the morning.

Throggs Neck blazed in silence, and utterly silent was the house of Appleboy.

stream, be thou silent a while!

She was singularly silent, ate hardly anything, but drank three or four glasses of champagne.

Now at this she turned away and standing thus awhile very silent, presently raised her hand, whereat came two of her gentle nuns.

All that day he was gloomily silent.

At last he came back to her and stood by the dying fire, ominously silent.

" In half an hour, during which they were both profoundly silent, he came to her again.

As that day ended, which the Italians always afterwards spoke of as "il giorno quindici" (the fifteenth day), the firing on both sides in our sector slackened, though our guns were seldom silent for more than an hour at a time, and the Austrians still carried out sudden bursts of vicious fire in our neighbourhood.

It was bad enough now, as Madam Routh stood there gravely silent.

In cabinet meetings he was habitually silent, having already made up his mind.

Does she know that you loved her before you knew who she was?" He paused, but Piers remained stubbornly silent, still prodding at the red coals.

She stood, awkwardly silent, in a shy panic to her pulsing finger-tips.

Unless we know thy wishes, daughter, neither Melchior nor I can act as we might wish?" Adelheid was long and thoughtfully silent.

" Whereupon the complainer was wisely silent, but later I heard him asserting, between catches of his breath, and out of his father's hearing: "I don't care(a sniff)when

She fell abruptly silent, and spoke no more until she descended to the council-room where the table was now spread for dinner.

His glance had resumed its old stolid watchfulness, which caused me to remain tactfully silent.

A wild place, savagely silent save for the hissing of the wind around the cliffs above.

Mr. Saltoun, hoping against hope, sat tensely silent.