Nothing is choicer in that sort of writing than to bring in some remote, impossible parallel,as between a great empress and the inobtrusive, quiet soul who digged her noiseless way so perseveringly through that rugged Paraguay mine.

keep private, keep in the background, keep one's distance; pursue the noiseless tenor of one's way, do good by stealth and blush to find it fame

Then she turned, and with swift, noiseless feet sped up the back trail.

When Mrs. Ryck was sure that her husband was asleep that night, she rose softly from her bed, unlocked, with noiseless key, one of her bureau drawers, took something from it, and then felt her way down the dark stairs into the kitchen.

But her hand was on the latch; the door had swung upon its noiseless hinges; the pealing organ drowned his voice.

" He caught her in his arms, kissed her eyes and lips, and then whirled and ran from the room with that noiseless, padding step.

One by one, neighbors and friends dropped in, with noiseless step.

Shadows cast From two high-sailing clouds upon the sand Passed not more noiseless than we two, as one, Glided beneath the moonlight, till I smelt The fragrance of the stables.

'tis the worst of things, low, mean beast, with the use of wings, So noiseless round on the air to skim, You know not when you are safe from him.

Mrs. Assheton, until her only surviving son Morris had come to live with her some three months ago on the completion of his four years at Cambridge, had been alone, but even when she was alone this ceremony of drawing the cloth and putting on the dessert and wine had never been omitted, though since she never took either, it might seem to be a wasted piece of routine on the part of the two noiseless parlourmaids.

His mother was greatly excited and his father, touching his neck with his fingers, turned his head round as though he were trying whether it were properly screwed on, and then, all at once, he opened his wide mouth and went off into a perfectly noiseless chuckle.

So, on Salisbury Plain, with nothing but rolling billows of close-cropped turf, springy and noiseless to the tread, as far as the eye can see, one feels as alone with the universe as in the middle of some Asian desert.

His feet were encased in list slippers and his tread was perfectly noiseless.

"You would never have known there was a child in the house, they were such still, noiseless, good little creatures," said one of my informants.

When the boy had come near enough he passed back his rifle, and his lips formed the almost noiseless word, "Shoot!" Tremblingly Rod seized the gun and looked into the swamp ahead, Mukoki doubling down in front of him.

He made no effort to skin it, but put the animal in his pack and resumed his slow, noiseless exploration of the gulch.

And as the fleeting moments glide, They bear us on their noiseless tide, Like straws upon the river, Into that vast, unfathomed sea, Marked on the map "eternity," With neither bound nor shore.

And watery marshes where the brooding noon, Full with the wonder of its own sweet boon, Nestled and slept among the noiseless reeds, Ye sat and murmured, motionless as they, With eyes that dreamed beyond the night and day.

Over the paved streets the light buggy rattled, and the slender shafts danced around his smooth barrel, but when they touched the level high road, horse and vehicle slipped forward through the night, a swift and noiseless phantom.

That which should be cool should be cool as ice; that which should be hot should be smoking; the attendance should be rapid and noiseless; the guests well assorted; the wines of the best quality; the host attentive and courteous; the room well lighted; and the time punctual.

In the great spaces of the temple the robed priests bowed before the altar and noiseless groups of worshippers knelt on the pavement.

It was worse, in a way, than the ordeal of the day before, this stealthy, noiseless approach.

He rose and stepped in his noiseless way behind her, but he reappeared instantly on the other side, and reached out his hand to where her fingers trailed limp from the arm of the chair.

The noiseless step of woman, the noiseless drapery of woman, are mere figures of speech in this day.

The noiseless step of woman, the noiseless drapery of woman, are mere figures of speech in this day.