11979 examples of silent in sentences

He had been silent for some time, and was meditatively sorting and looking through a packet of small photographs in his pocket-book.

" CHAPTER XXVII TWO BLACKGUARDS "Tell me what you think of it," said the man in the corner, seeing that Polly remained silent and puzzled.

Only the open windows, the bitter north-easterly gale, and the heavily falling snowtwo silent accomplices, as silent as the dead.

Only the open windows, the bitter north-easterly gale, and the heavily falling snowtwo silent accomplices, as silent as the dead.

The young girl also was silent.

He stands for a moment gazing at Redbud with his dreamy and smiling eyes, silent in the sunshine like a shadow, then he pushes back his tangled chestnut curls, and laughs.

The wild geese flying South sent their faint carol from the cloudsthe swamp sparrow twittered, and the still copse was stirred by the silent croak of some wandering wild turkey, or the far forest made most musical with that sound which the master of Wharncliffe Lodge delighted in, the "belling of the hart.

Verty also was silent.

She sat silent for a moment with the air of one screwing up her courage.

The whole manor was silent.

He paused, expecting her to ask some question, but she lay silent, with her face in her arms, evidently listening.

MY DEAREST FRIEND, You will perhaps think that I have been too long silent.

She was silent.

What, Sir, [turning to me,] what, Mr. Lovelace, was your expedient;perhaps something may be offered, Madam She sighed, and was silent.

She was silent.

The pitiful fellow was lost in silent admiration of her.

Still silent was the varlet.

I then arose, not doubting of an implied pardon in this silent distress.

She was silent, I rejoiced in her silence.

She was silent.

She was still silent.

Yet thus much I will say of myself, and that I hope without all suspicion of pride, or self-conceit, I have lived a silent, sedentary, solitary, private life, mihi et musis in the University, as long almost as Xenocrates in Athens, ad senectam fere to learn wisdom as he did, penned up most part in my study.

leagues and laws of arms, (silent leges inter arma,) for their advantage, omnia jura, divina, humana, proculcata plerumque sunt; God's and men's laws are trampled under foot, the sword alone determines all; to satisfy their lust and spleen, they care not what they attempt, say, or do, Rara fides, probitasque viris qui castra sequuntur.

It is an inward master that makes me either be silent or speak; believe, or doubt; acknowledge my errors, or confirm my judgment.

Where is that oracle, which is never silent, and against which all the vain prejudices of men cannot prevail?

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