"It seems so strange for the people of this place not even to know what we've come for." Tonnison grunted an assent, and thereafter was silent for a while.

For a full minute, I stood there, quiveringglancing, nervously, behind and before; but the great cellar was silent as a grave, and, gradually, I shook off the frightened sensation.

Isis and Osiris grow dim; Jove nods in heaven; the pipe of Pan is dumb; Thor is silent in the northern Aurora; the tree of Igdrasil waves in midnight; Confucius is pale; Muhammad is dust.

The Arabian Nights were silent on the subject.

'That is death indeed,' she cried; and the wind came up silent with a wild breath that was more awful than the shriek of a storm; for it was like the stifled utterances of all those miserable ones who have no voice to call upon God, and know not where He is nor how to pronounce His name.

If we gave her any word to speak, it was as taffy to keep her silent about some iniquity that we had worked against her.

Miss Eleanor sat silent at the tea-table, with a shocked expression on her face; and Mr. Blake, when told of the occurrence, said sharply, "Well, we'd better have locks put on everything, and the sooner the better.

But while she stood still and silent before me, the effulgent radiance that had almost blinded my vision, after a time left it unobscured, and I was able so to portray her every aspect to my mind, as her whole beauteous figure was impressed on my memory.

Sage and imperial senators of Rome, Not without good advisement have you seen Old Marius silent during your discourse: Yet not for that he fear'd to plead his cause, Or raise his honour trodden down by age,

Three bodies, which they had not had time to bury, lay, stark and silent under the shed, and there were nine fresh graves on the hillside.

He had not slept all the night, nor had night been silent to him nor dark, but full of glaring light and noise and riot; his eyes were red with fever and weariness, and his soul was sick within him, and the morning looked him in the face and upbraided him as a sister might have upbraided him, who loved him.

" "Cruel!" says my Beltane, and thereafter fell silent from sheer amaze the while she sighed again, and bowed her shapely head and plucked a daisy from the grass to turn it about and about in gentle fingers.

For the rest, they sat by the fire playing endless games of euchre, seven-up and bean poker, while Mac, more silent than ever, smoked and read Copps's "Mining Laws" and the magazines of the previous August.

Soldiers are silent by law, and journalists either do not hear these things, or, believing that hate is a valuable asset, suppress all mention of them.

The greatest problem which we had to face, in arranging this little escapade, was how we should keep you silent after your release.

The fleet lay there in silent of the port.

" Delia Wall had sat silent through the story.

But a man has the full responsibility of his freedom, cannot evade a question, can scarce be silent without rudeness, must answer for his words upon the moment, and is not seldom left face to face with a damning choice, between the more or less dishonourable wriggling of Deronda and the downright woodenness of Vernon Whitford.

"It's the best built farm house 'round thest parts," announced the miller, who had been silent until now.

" "But I should be silent like the bird, and not sing," she reflected, and paused for a while.

He sat thus for hours silent over his fire, playing with his old self, as though it were a thing which did not belong to hima suit of clothes which he had put off, and which, 'For that it was too rich to hang by the wall, It must be ripped,' and then pieced and dizened out afresh as a toy.

All was calm and silent around it.

So Eleemos would get down from his warm rock and slip away, stopping to look back and listen jauntily to the clumsy brute behind him, till he ran plump into the jaws of the other wolf that was watching alert and silent beside the runway.

Under tower and balcony, By garden-wall and gallery, A gleaming shape she floated by, Dead-pale between the houses high, Silent into Camelot.

Meanwhile all was not silent within Semur.