80596 examples of stilled in sentences

What Thayendanega said when the uproar was thus stilled, I cannot rightly set down, for my brain was in such a whirl, and fear so strong in my heart, as to prevent me from taking due heed of all that was passingI realized only that death was literally staring us in the face.

The Pope, with difficulty, stilled the angry tumult.

Lenore felt her face blanch; and that intense quiver within her suddenly stilled.

But nothing dimmed the glory of Pearl's rainbow dream or stilled the happy songs her heart sang day and night.

" The joy that had been manifest in Annapolis that morning was utterly stilled when the brigade reached the home town once more.

Had he retired in 1910 he would have done so with honor, and every hostile voice in Mexico would have been stilled.

Such an one would be inclined to think us a nation of fools, that must be stilled with rattles, or amused with baubles; and would readily conclude, that our ministers were obliged to practise such fallacies, because they could not prevail upon us by motives adapted to reasonable beings.

The pain had grown to such proportions that the nerves had become hysterical, and would be stilled by no physician's potion.

Philosophy is all very well but it never yet stilled the heart-beat of the young.

The tumult that had raged in his mind through many hours was at last stilled, and that night he slept.

he said in a low voice, and yet one filled with a threat which stilled the words of passion which the engineer was on the point of uttering.

Passing its closed gates daily, I was always sensible of a qualm of the spirit, a daunting prescience that the stilled mansion still harbored the ghost of an unlaid secret.

The pleasure which it pursues is nothing but the removal of a dissatisfaction, and vanishes at once when the longing is stilled, to be replaced by fresh wants, that is, by new pains.

I certainly was not disposed to chat, and I suppose that sympathy for my feelings, and my glumness, stilled the tongues of my companions.

" That stilled her.

For civilized man, in his latest art of war, has gone back to be taught one more simple lesson by the beasts of the field and birds of the air; the armed hosts are hushed and stilled by the passing air-machine, exactly as the finches and field-mice of hedgerow and ditch and field are frozen to stillness by the shadow of a hovering hawk, the beat of its passing wing.

She stilled her breath as she might, stilled her heart as she might, lest its beating should be heard.

She stilled her breath as she might, stilled her heart as she might, lest its beating should be heard.

The winds were stilled and the streams ceased to flow.

Her memory Is like an ant-hill which a twig disturbs, But twig stilled never.

She laughed to think no mortal ever By dint of mortal flesh The very Cause that was the Hunt One moment could enmesh: That though with captive limbs I lay, Stilled breath and vanquished eyes, He that hunts Love with horse and hound Hunts out his heart and eyes.

But death had stilled the wild heart.

The evening nears; cool zephyrs blow; The struggle wild doth weaker grow; The air with scarce a sigh is filled From the pale mouth; the blood is stilled.

Stilled over land and sea is the clang of arms; from San Juan to Manila, fearless and triumphant, floats the star spangled banner.

Partisan politics, sectional disputes instantly were stilled beneath the majesty of her voice.

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