It was not a note of danger, breaking the hush of midnight, saying that thieves were abroad, that murder was on its stealthy mission, or that the wolf was on the walk.

Throughout all the multitude I heard no sound of dissention or debate: but over all there reigned an air of intelligence and sympathy, while all were hushed in silent expectance, and eager attention, with their eyes directed to an elevated tribunal:On this a personage was sitting, whose majestic figure I immediately recollected.

Touch that solemn looking old croaker on yonder broad leaf of that pond lily, with the end of your fishing rod, while the music is at the highest, he will send forth a quick discordant and cracked cry, like that of a greedy dog choked with a bone, as he plunges for the bottom; and note how suddenly that sound will be repeated, and how quick the roar of the frogs will be hushed into silence.

And those about them watched that mighty struggle, hushed for wonder of it; even Sir Jocelyn had forgot his lock of hair, and hummed no more.

When they rise to speak, there is always some one present whose breath is hushed with longing to hear spoken some real word of truth, or strength, or comfort.

When I had none to give him; whereupon, I put a slip of foxglove in his hand, Which pleased him so, that he was hushed at once:

At morning comes a hush on nature; the sun arises with that innocent expression of countenance which causes some persons to fancy that it resembles Mr. GREELEY after shaving; and there is an evident desire on the part of the wind to pretend that it has not been up all night.

Each time the babe reacts to a pleasant or unpleasant stimulus, there is an outpouring of certain internal secretions, a cessation of others, a tingling of certain vegetative nerves and organs, a hushing of others.

And now the ten archers of the King's guard took their stand again, and all the great crowd was hushed to the stillness of death.

Roused from their slumbers, In grim array the grisly spectres rise, Grin horrible, and, obstinately sullen, Pass and repass, hushed as the foot of night.

There was an uncanny hush about him.

They walked with her softly in the silence, in the sound of the sea, till the wonder in her was hushed like the pain, and talked with her, though she knew it not.

All other fames must hush before his.

35. What softer voice is hushed over the dead?

There was a strange and solemn hush throughout the camp, broken only by the hail of the sentinel and the occasional trampling of horses hoofs, as some aid-de-camp galloped hastily along the line.

An even deeper hush than that which hangs over the well-to-do quarters of all Arab towns broods over these silent thoroughfares, with heavy-nailed doors barring half-ruined houses.

Unchanged, unchangeable by time, Your love is boundless as the sea; The same as when our childish griefs Were hushed beside our mother's knee.

They sat down by the roadside under the shade of the trees,while the river ran softly by, and everything was hushed out of sympathy and kindness,and questioned each other of all that had been and was to be.

The house was hushed round them; if a board creaked under their feet, it seemed to her scared ears a pistol shot.

There was a hush through Mr. Dombey's great mansion when the child was gone, and Florence;was she so alone in the bleak world that nothing else remained to her except her little maid?

You might suddenly awaken her from the mesmeric slumber, and this might be very serious." As Joe said this with every indication of meaning it, there was a quick hush among the audience.

Below him the road wound, a dimly conjectured, wavering gray ribbon; on the other side of it the steep slope took off to a gulf of inky shadow, where the great valley lay, hushed under the solemn stars, silent, black, and shimmering with a myriad pulsating electric lights which glowed like swarms of fireflies caught in an invisible net.

And the sound to pass away and away over that mighty Country in the deep Earth, and did hush and hush unto a great and utter silence, save for a faint murmur of countless women weeping, that did be in the air of that Land of Quiet.

There was a hush amidst all the great audience; such a heavy silence as comes only when many are waiting, and all with bated breath.

My heart was hushed within me, ... 1815.