Is it by such a hand as thine that the gentlest heart that ever beat is stilled in death?

I was also much surprised by the fact that the traffic, which was never stilled for a moment, seemed to have no sort of regulation.

Her eyes are lost within his eyes, His eyes in hers are fathoms deep; Death is not stiller than these twain That smile as in a magic sleep.

How little any encouragement is wanting to promote the consumption of those execrable liquors, how much it concerns every man who has been informed of their quality, and who has seen their consequences, to oppose the use of them with his utmost influence, appears from the enormous quantity which the stills of this nation annually produce.

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.

His face bespeaks A deep and simple meekness: and that Soul, Which with the motion of a virtuous act Flashes a look of terror upon guilt, Is, after conflict, quiet as the ocean, By a miraculous finger, stilled at once.

No loved ones ever vanish from the grate fire's merry throng; No hands in death are folded and no lips are stilled to song.

False prophets were never stiller about their time-detected impostures than are the pro-slavery presses of the United States about the results of West India Emancipation.

But now he stands, all merry laughter stilled By awe that groweth slowly in his eyes,

The empty air is stilled over them in expectation, and the imagination makes vain pictures, and fills out their crescent of splendid purposes.

The sound revived for a moment the troubles that were stilled within usbut only for a moment.

I whispered with a shiver, my own emotion stilled before his.

No wonder the canting prayers of maudlin fanatics were stilled amid the wrathful cry for vengeance.

Citing Stilling after Dale Owen, and quoting Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace's Scientific Aspect of the Supernatural, p. 43.

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

Therefore he proposed that we should canoe it along the shallows in this sweetest and stillest of all the nights.