A dead silence reigns in your family.

After six reports there was again silence save for the whirr of shells as they sang up the small valley.

* * Thou bugbear of the law, stand up and speak, Thy long misconstrued silence break; Tell us who 'tis upon thy ridge stands there, So full of fault and yet so void of fear; And from the paper in his hat, Let all mankind be told for what.

The opening lines reveal the artistic perfection of form and the effectiveness of the sensory images with which he frames the scene: "Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud.

Not the "silence implying sound," but the discord breaking the harmony.

Thus grievously perverting The sense of all I say, Upon my lips the raging crowd The gag of silence lay.

A silence ensues, till someone says: 'Many enemies, great honour, and we shall win, for our cause is just!'

Just before I started, the old clock played its sweet tune; we stood in silence listening.

The battle's o'er; the din is past; Night's mantle on the field is cast; The Indian yell is heard no more; The silence broods o'er Erie's shore.

Know, all of you, that it is I[Deep silence falls.

Thus the two were facing each other in a silence oppressive to both, which neither knew how to break, when relief came in the butler's announcement of dinner.

There are always solitary hawks sailing above the mesa, and where some blue tower of silence lifts out of the neighboring range, an eagle hanging dizzily, and always buzzards high up in the thin, translucent air making a merry-go-round.

Silence ensuing, dear M.S. found herself constrained to address them in a way suited to the occasion; I was also enabled to express what came before me.

And the girl, having prayed, in silence bends Down to the earth's embrace.

We find him sitting in Hardy's rooms; tea is over, scouts out of college, candles lighted, and silence reigning, except when distant sounds of mirth come from some undergraduates' rooms on the opposite side of the quad.

At length, The awful stillness broke As if from silence gathering strength Most lustily they all did croak, Their opinions mingling, In discordant jingling "A purge""a blister""shave his head" "Senna and salts""a clyster""have him bled," "A pill at noon""another pill at night," "A warm-bath, sure, would set him right.

Thy silence doth but breed thine own hurt and decay.

But now his silence doubleth all my doubts, Whilst my suspicious thoughts 'twixt hope and fear Distract me into sundry passions: Therefore, good aunt, this labour must be yours, To understand my father's will herein,

The silence dread Closes and deepens round.

VI Crouched by the mast, the child and cat, Through the dire time of slaughter sat, By terror both spellbound; But when night came, a silence drear Fell on the coast; and far or near, No voice caught Edric's wakeful ear, Save water's lapping sound.

How dear the counsel of a present friend, Lacking whose godlike power, the lonely one In silence droops!

Still may yon spider round your pages spin, Subtle and slow, her emblematic gin! Buried in dust and lost in silence dwell!

As I groped my way down the stairs I was conscious of an uncanny silence, a silence eloquent of a sleep that is as death, a sleep that always ends in death.

Ages of silence end to-night; Then to the long-expectant earth Glad angels come to greet His birth In burst of music, love, and light!

She wanted them with an intensity that made it impossible at last to let the silence endure any longer.