the trembling lights and shadows, the half-heard sounds and silence of the woods, the changing cloud, the dim reflection, the atmosphere of mystery and peace?

" He paused a moment, took my silence for consent, and went ahead.

So quickly did the Renaissance emerge from the Middle Ages; and when the voices of that august trio were silenced in the grave, their echoes ever widened and grew louder through the spacious time to come.

An instant later the entire crew struggled out from the companionway, rushed in grim silence to the side of the vessel, and threw themselves into the sea.

Again a rather long silence on Hallam's part.

"No." He struggled in silence with his mucklucks.

" "Oh, by-the-bye," cried Thurston, turning to his particular chum, "have you heard anything more about that poem of yours?" Fletcher senior, who had been sitting all this time scowling in silence at the candle, answered shortly, "No." "Hullo!" returned his friend, "what's the matter?

This obsession ended on the late afternoon when the Colonel broke silence by saying suddenly: "We must camp; I'm done."

There was an instant of silence between themthe kind of silence that can shape itself into a commentary upon the inefficacy of mere speecha widening silence which, as they sat there facing, deepened until, when she finally spoke, it was as if her words were pebbles dropping down into a well.

And, considering silence as equivalent to acquiescence, she drew out a letter at hazard, and read aloud: "'Just a line, woman of all the world, to tell you ... but what have I to tell you, after all?

For Confucius in his teaching treated only of man's life on earth, and seems to have had no ideas with regard to the human lot after death; if he had any ideas he preserved an inscrutable silence about them.

"When the two minutes forty seconds were over, each observer left her instrument, turned in silence from the sun, and wrote down brief notes.

The great rivers that rolled in silence through unbroken forests, have become the highways of trade, upon whose bosoms the white sails of commerce are spread, and through whose waters countless steamboats plough their way.

Sometimes there would be silence like the silence of long years; and fear came upon them that the wayfarer had turned back, or that he had fallen, and lay suffering at the bottom of some gulf, or had been swept by the wind upon some icy peak and dashed against the rocks.

"Silence during the rounds, Mr. Pennington," admonished the referee quietly.

" The two must have hung in silence over the rail staring down.

" There was a grim little silence after this.

The last troupe, dressed in long yellow shirts and loose yellow turbans, represent Swami Narayan priests and pass in silence before the glittering simulacrum of the Martyr's tomb.

For silence among the pines is not the dead void of desert lands, but a great hush like the finger-to-lip command in a sleeper's room, or the still message of a sea-shell held to the ear.

" His sudden change of manner, and the shadowy, musty silence around me threatened to shake the coolness I had attempted to assume.

The mother and uncle, settling down on a tree-trunk, looked in silence towards the castle, while the children were hunting for strawberries on the sunny incline.

And for the fraction of a second he was half-minded to tell all he knew to Fullaway there and thenand it was only by a still stronger effort of will that he restrained his tongue, determined to keep a stricter silence than ever, and replied to the American in an offhand, casual tone.

A lie told by her silence under Maisie's trust in her, by her acceptance of Maisie's friendship, by her acquiescence in Maisie's preposterous belief.

There was a moment's silence into which Monona injected a loud "Num, num, num-my-num," as if she were the burden of an Elizabethan lyric.

For the silencing of the artillery, which thus hindered the French sappers, the allied batteries opened in full force against the part of the enemy's lines from the Redan to the great harbor.