" There was a deep, solemn stillness all arounda stillness widely different from that peaceful composure which characterizes a calm day in an inhabited land.

" There was a deep, solemn stillness all arounda stillness widely different from that peaceful composure which characterizes a calm day in an inhabited land.

It was the death-like stillness of that most peculiar and dreary desolation which results from the total absence of animal existence.

Yet these sounds did not interrupt the unusual stillness.

Sir David was at home, the woman at the lodge told him; and he went on to the house, and rang a great clanging bell, which made an alarming clamour in the utter stillness of the place.

A monstrous stillness!

"In the dread stillness of the night, To lose the faint, faint sound of breath! To listen in restrain'd affright, To deprecate each thought of death!

"The air reviv'd herbut again She left not, for the social train, The stillness of her chamber;ne'er Its threshold pass'd, but on her bier: Spoke but to one who seem'd to stand Anear, and took his viewless hand, To promise, let whate'er betide, She would not be another's bride.

If he was humorous, his audience were full of laughter; if solemn, a deathlike stillness reigned; if pathetic, tears flowed all around him.

My ears are filled with bird-music, and all other sounds are hushed in this Sabbath stillness.

At last there was a little fleet of eight or nine boats collected together, and from them a tumult, like the chatter of a market-place, rose into the stillness of the night.

He waited for the next, and there was silence, and then suddenly, cutting through the unexpected stillness like a keen, thin blade, came the first stroke of the bell.

Her stillness and her shut eyes moved him to compunction.

And of a sudden she saw them as if thrown back to a distance where they stood enchanted in a great stillness and clearness and a piercing beauty.

It swept her, while the white glamour lasted, into the stillness where the flowering thorn trees stood.

A cry came from the bush, followed by a fierce yell of anger from those farther back, and then the sinister stillness settled again over the wilderness.

I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm.

I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm.

All around was absolute stillness.

a superlative stillness ... and then a mighty attrition, in which the mortal part of the poor girl was about to be ground to atoms, when she ... awoke.

Can we think of a solemn scene of mountain stillness in which some prophet is standing in a trance, and then realize that the whole scene is whizzing round like a zoetrope at the rate of nineteen miles a second?

Where its ancient exuberance passed the bounds of wisdom and even of virtue, its caperings seem frozen into the stillness of an antique frieze.

We do not burst with amusement at the first sight of the pines or the chasm; but we like them because they are expressive of the dramatic stillness of Nature, her bold experiments, her definite departures, her fearlessness and savage pride in her children.

It is so lone outside, there is such an awful sound in the voice of stillness, and Saul is not in sight!

I expected the men would now begin, but the same stillness remained.