It opened its mouth, and, for the first time, the stillness of that abominable place was broken, by a deep, booming note that sent an added thrill of apprehension through me.

How is Aunt Marthe?" "She is well," she answered with a sudden stillness in her voice.

thou didst come abroad, To mediate 'twixt our ignorance and God; Forming ever without form; Showing, but thyself unseen; Pouring stillness on the storm; Making life where death had been!

Nearly always now King rode ahead, finding the way for her; and Gloria, her spirits drooping again with the advancing afternoon, vaguely oppressed by the solemn stillness about her, was glad that she too could be silent.

And then, in the direction of the valley, I heard suddenly the sound of a dull thud, the noise coming to me through the stillness with a very startling clearness.

But to Sofia the hurried beating of her heart reverberated on the stillness like the rolling of a drum.

What court would listen to his stillness for grounds?

"Long before twelve o'clock all these and various other minor preparations have been so completely made, that there is generally a remarkable stillness over the whole ship just before the important moment of noon arrives.

As for Floracita, she felt compensated for the increased stillness by the privilege of having Rosa all to herself.

In the inn at which I arrived, there was the same grave-like stillness as in the street.

So to the heart that knows Thy love, O Purest! There is a temple, sacred evermore, And all the babble of life's angry voices Dies in hushed stillness at its peaceful door.

This arrangement enabled the conqueror, without waste of time in that long contemplative stillness out of which alone the beauty of the true Ideal arises, out of which alone man can create like a god, to avail himself at once of the Greek orders, not as a sensitive and delicate means of fine aesthetic expression, but as a mechanical language of contrasts of form to be used according to the exigencies of design.

It lasted for a space of minutes during which neither of them stirred or uttered a syllable, becoming at length ominous as the electric stillness before the storm.

At the first movement breaking the stillness into which consternation had cast her, he spoke.

He thus lost all means of ascertaining what was going forward; but the deathlike stillness around him, broken only by the hoarse tolling of a bell, by a wild shriek or other appalling cry, proclaimed too surely the terrible state of things.

There was great stillness amongst the branches and flowers and more than common sweetness in the air.

" And the weary soul folded its tired wings, all wounded with vain beatings against the prison bars of circumstance, and was hushed into a great stillness against the heart of its Father.

All was stillness round him; not a breath was moving;so still it was, that he could hear the unresting creatures underground at their work, to whom day or night are alike.

The thunder slowly ceased, and there followed a brief stillness through which the beating of her heart clamoured wildly.

"Let us go," he said in a low voice to Ercole; and they went away, leaving the contessina listening in the stillness to the echo of their feet.

I suppose it is the surfeit of excitement that I had in my youth that has made a life of quiet monotony so extremely agreeable to me; it is like stillness after loud noise, twilight after glare, rest after labour.

There was a death-like stillness without and within.

In this siege warfare of the trenches there was a deadly stillness behind the front and a queer absence of war's tumult and turmoil.

Once, standing in the hallowed stillness beside her dead, Mrs. Errol turned to Anne, saying softly: "The dear Lord knows best, dear.

And the air burned in the stillness between the baked desert and the glaring sky.