My silence was an affirmative to the question.

Well-meaners think no harm; but for the rest, Things sacred they pervert, and silence is the best.

Silence is thrice enjoin'd; then thus aloud The king-at-arms bespeaks the knights and listening crowd: Our sovereign lord has ponder'd in his mind The means to spare the blood of gentle kind; And of his grace, and inborn clemency, 500 He modifies his first severe decree!

" "Permit me to point out I firmly believe that silence is the perfectest herald of joy," observed Colonel Musgrave.

The deep silence of the night was the time he commonly chose for study; and he would often be heard walking in his library, at Richmond, till near morning, humming over what he was to write out and correct the next day, and so, good reader, this is no argument against my position; but observe, retiring late is no excuse for late rising, unless business have detained you: balls and suppers are no apology for habitual late rising.

I am taking a trip over to England to make a few enquiries round about the spot where this Mr. Douglas Romilly hails fromDetton Magna, isn't it?" Philip made no reply, yet even his silence might well have been the silence of indifference.

For my part, sir, I cannot but think that silence is a censure too gentle of that wickedness which no language can exaggerate, and for which, as it has, perhaps, no example, human kind have not yet provided a name.

tacere,"It is one thing to conceal, another to be silent;" silence is not necessarily deceptive concealment; and on the other hand in such a statement as this, in Benjamin's great work on Sales: "The nondisclosure of hidden facts [to a party in interest] is the more objectionable when any artifice is employed to throw the buyer off his guard; as by telling half the truth."

"There are many occasions in life, in which silence and simplicity are true wisdom.

"Nay," interposeth the attorney generall, "your silence was the token of a malicious mind.

SILENCE, WORSHIP OF, Carlyle's name for the sacred respect for restraint in speech till "thought has silently matured itself, ... to hold one's tongue till some meaning lie behind to set it wagging," a doctrine which many misunderstand, almost wilfully, it would seem; silence being to him the very womb out of which all great things are born.

So silence in this case was assent.

Silence and darkness are great promoters of despondency.

The silence of a nearing experience brooded over my spirit; for Saul's home was a vast unknown to me, and I fain would have delayed awhile its coming.

Silence was the word, and we crept on tip-toe and tip-toe, scarce breathing, keeping ever out of the wind's course; for they have an ear of silk, and an eye of light, and a scent so exquisite that they could, if it were possible, hear the tread, see the essence, and scent the breath, of a spirit.

Tis vaine to prayse; they're to themselves a glory, And silence is our sweetest Oratory.

but as it stands now, silence is our duty by both Miles and Archie, and Anne herself.

I think the universal silence of this assembly is a sufficient proof, that no one is willing; I will, however, repeat my question.

He tells her to attend to her own affairs and remember that silence is a woman's greatest charm, and before committing suicide he utters a monologue in which he says farewell to his parents and to his country, but has no last message for Tecmessa.

The absolute silence of Seneca respecting the woman who had caused him the bitterest anguish and humiliation of his life is, as we have remarked already, a strange and significant phenomenon.

The silence was a compact.

No written communication whatever has been made on the subject, and none verbally made of sufficient importance to be recorded, a silence with regard to which could have been justly the foundation of any inference that the President was satisfied that the course of the French administration was either reconcilable to the assurances given him or necessary to secure a majority of the Chamber of Deputies.

Mr. King compressed his lips tightly for a moment, as if silence were a painful effort.

Silence is the soil of all passion.

"In life, there are many occasions on which silence and simplicity are marks of true wisdom.