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Sentences starting with silence

Silence is unnoticed when people sit before a fire; it would be intolerable if they sat and looked at each other. [4]
Silence fell on us. [11]
Silence fell on the whole squadron. [2]
Silence enfolded the scene. [13]
Silence would have revealed their unhappiness; they would not have dared to look closely and deeply into each other's face, lest revelation should force them to say, "It has been a mistake; let us end it. [11]
Silence is the only way of safety or of justice. [11]
Silence fell suddenly on the theatre. [11]
Silence Withers was more cheerful now that she had got rid of her responsibility. [6]
Silence pervaded the little castle in Prebrunn; nay, there were days when a thick layer of straw in the road showed that within the house lay some one seriously ill, who must be guarded from every sound. [10]
Silence intervened until Lassiter's soft, jingling step assured her of his approach. [13]

Sentences ending with silence

Again and again you have recurred to my thoughts lately, and I was beginning to have some sad presages as to the cause of your silence. [14]
Dull revolver shots--hoarse yells--pound of hoofs--shrill neighs of horses--commingling of echoes--and again silence! [13]
Ingolby drank it without protest and in silence. [11]
Melissa seemed satisfied with this assurance, for she walked on for some time in silence. [10]
The crowd sways with the rise and fall of the shifting, testimony, in sympathetic interest, and hangs upon the dicta of the judge in breathless silence. [5]
She sat down with her embroidery in her lap, and for some moments busied herself with it in silence. [9]
Many a day, winter and summer, Lem had gone that road alone, whistling, and never before heeding that silence. [9]
It was Virginia who broke the silence. [9]
It was Chiltern who broke the silence. [9]
In the room where paralysis had fallen on him a bed was brought, and he lay nerveless on the verge of a still deeper silence. [11]

Short sentences using silence

Suddenly the silence was broken. [9]
There was an uncomfortable silence. [9]
Therefore she broke the silence. [9]
Asa Waring broke the silence. [9]
No one broke the silence. [2]
Ameni first broke the silence. [10]
The silence was terrible. [10]
There was a sudden silence. [11]
The silence lasted some time. [2]
There was a silence. [9]

Sentences containing silence two or more times

In silence they turned for a last lingering look, and in silence went down the slope into the world again, and through the streets to the driveway of the Duncan house. [9]
When he came to himself, there was absolute silence round him-deathly, oppressive silence. [11]
For a time there was a deep silence, troubled only by Jo's deep breathing, which seemed itself like the pulse of the silence. [11]
Then silence came, then shouts, and silence again. [11]
The motion of the engines had ceased, the puffing of the escaping steam was stilled, and the enveloping silence closed upon us, and such silence it was! [5]
They sat in silence, which the old tall clock counted out in long seconds; but it was silence which meant more than any words they had ever spoken. [6]
Even this solemn silence is small respite to the editor, for the next uncomfortable thing to having people look over his shoulders, perhaps, is to have them sit by in silence and listen to the scratching of his pen. [5]
An icy silence sat between us, and such a silence is invariably insinuating. [9]
A great sigh of relief broke from her as she heard his door open and shut, and silence fell on everything, that palpable silence which seems to press upon the night-watcher with merciless, smothering weight. [11]
I tried every method short of absolute rudeness to change the subject, and went from silence to taciturnity and back again to silence. [9]

More example sentences with the word silence in them

Do I interpret your silence rightly? [10]
There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
Tell me, can you think of anything like it?--the strange light, the white bear of the Pole, that has no friends at all except the shooting stars, the great ice plains, the quick night hurrying on, the silence--such silence as no man can think! [11]
If pride within you secretly abides That, forced by the elixir's charm, The Sooth You needs must speak--be wholly pure in thought, Despising not the teachings wise, of old; When Truth with equal earnestness was sought If speech be silver, silence then is gold! [10]
Never in the years that had gone had there been such silence between them as they sat together. [11]
Waiting, in silence, would have been agreeable enough, for I was full of matter for reflection, and wanted to give it a chance to work. [5]
Besides, the wild wood was a second home to me, and now I was shut up in a convent where the silence about me crushed me like a too tight bodice. [10]
There was a wondering silence now for a while. [5]
There was a wondering and eloquent silence for a moment, then a great wave of laughter began to sweep along that human sea, but a warning bugle-blast cut its career short. [5]
That old Silence Withers would do just as her minister told her,--even chance whether she gives it to the Parson-factory, or marries Bellamy Stoker, and gives it to him after his wife's dead. [6]
The dead silence with which the people in the court below had listened to him, was now broken by shrieks of rage and cries for vengeance. [10]
Lise, feverishly occupied with her toilet, on her departure broke the silence there by inquiring:--"Say, if I had your easy money, I might buy a stove, too. [9]
This being received with a large silence that suggested doubt, he buttressed it with the statement that his brother once saw the boomerang kill a bird away off a hundred yards and bring it to the thrower. [5]
Valmond got silence with a gesture. [11]
So, as the winter went on, she starved in silence, and no one had more than sour milk and bread and a potato now and then. [11]
Oh those high, wild, desolate moors, up above the whole world, and the very realms of silence I Home to dinner at two. [14]
Casper Eysvogel, on whom the resolution bore most heavily, submitted in silence, shrugging his shoulders. [10]
Those lean Egyptians, who pushed past in silence and haranging their heads, were no doubt bent on carrying offerings to Osiris and Anubis--for the festival of the gods of death and resurrection coincided with the Nekysia--and on winning their favors by magical formulas and spells. [10]
Mr. Cooke himself, who particularly savored of brimstone, would much better have remained behind the arras, for he was denounced with such energy and bitterness that those who might have attempted his defence were silent, and their very silence told against them. [9]
The merry party, who now perceived that they had interrupted the nocturnal tryst of lovers, did not instantly know what to do and, as one looked enquiringly at another, an embarrassed silence followed their noisy jollity. [10]
But even those who have felt the silence and the stir that prefaces the clamorous applause of the thousands could not know the thrill that swept her under his tribute. [9]
An elderly sergeant who had approached the officer while he was giving these explanations had waited in silence for him to finish speaking, but at this point, evidently not liking the officer's remark, interrupted him. [2]
It was Hilary who got the pen first, and wrote his name in silence, and by this time Mr. McAvoy had recovered his presence of mind sufficiently to wield the blotter. [9]
For several seconds while the young man was taking his place on the step the silence continued. [2]
There was silence while the breakfast things were cleared away, and the window was thrown wide to the full morning sun. [11]
And all the while one nun after another glided through the chamber in silence, and with bowed head, her arms folded, and never so much as lifting an eye to look at me. [10]
There was silence while one might count ten --the master was gathering his wrath. [5]
A silence ensued, which no one broke till Fulkerson said: "Well, now, look here. [8]
The tone in which he gave the order was such that even the nurse did not remonstrate; and Nilus, for his part obeyed in silence when Orion bid him return to his place among the judges. [10]
In the silence which followed Foyle's words his brain was struggling to see a way out. [11]
In this silence, which emphasized the quaking of the earth and air, there was a sense of unknown, impending disaster. [4]
I was sleeping when she entered the nursery and came and took a seat at my side in perfect silence. [6]
It was afternoon when he returned to his bench in the tailor-shop, and was received by old Louis Trudel in peevish silence. [11]
I don't know what, that..." and having uttered this compliment, he again gazed at him in silence. [2]
Nobody really knew what her plans had been except Olive and Cyprian, who had observed a very kind silence about the whole matter. [6]
She will have what Aunt Silence says she shall have. [6]
So the sounds were yet more dreary than the silence which they interrupted. [5]
On either side were niches containing statues of Antony and Cleopatra cast in dark bronze, and above the cornice were brazen figures of Love and Death, Fame and Silence, ennobling the Egyptian forms with exquisite works of Hellenic art. [10]
Before the lamps were lighted along the Rue de Rivoli and in the great square of the Revolution, the garden was left to the silence of its statues and its thousand memories. [4]
As the two were going to their room in silence a temple-servant called to Klea, desiring her to go with him to the high-priest, who wished to speak to her. [10]
Dignity and pride were both sustained by silence and a wave of the hand, which in fact said to the world, "Look you, my masters, they belong to Jean Jacques. [11]
Once when he went into the Louis Quinze every man present stole away in silence, and the landlord himself, without a word, turned and left the bar. [11]
Miss Silence Withers went herself to see him. [6]
The silence, the weirdness, stopped his tongue--besides, what was the good of crying out? [11]
So long as we were on the Nile, I would not intrude my tale upon you; that ancient river has a wonderful power of compelling to silence and quiet contemplation. [10]
She led the way simply, not speaking, and her silence seemed to betoken the completeness of an understanding between them, as of a long acquaintance. [9]
Jethro led the way in silence until they came to the models. [9]
Dupont went on, watching the other furtively, for he did not like this silence. [11]
And as he watched her, in silence, the colour that flowed and ebbed in her cheeks registered the coming and going of memories; of incidents in her life hidden from him, arousing in the man the torture of jealousy. [9]
The white horse was the only one to break the silence that followed, by sneezing with all his might. [9]
And yet there was such a silence all around, that he felt sure he could have heard even the breathing of a sleeper, if there had been one there. [12]
Aunt Silence's engine was responsibility,--her own responsibility, and the dreadful consequences which would follow to her, Silence, if Myrtle should in any way go wrong. [6]
Even Diodoros, who was not generally given to silent meditation, had his own thoughts to pursue; and so they walked on in silence till suddenly they heard a dull murmur of voices. [10]
A modest silence was maintained from the stoop, broken at length by Lem Hallowell, who (men said) was an exact reproduction of Jock, the meeting-house builder. [9]
Only one thing was lacking, namely, tears--not those of the hirelings who attended it, but such as fall in silence from a sorrowing eye. [10]
Patience and silence was his motto. [11]
There followed what was for me an anxious silence, while the three of them continued to stare at me. [9]
Suddenly a shot was fired, then a hoarse shout came over the desert, then there was silence again. [11]
To Louis she was ever the same, affectionate, gentle, and unselfish; but her stronger soul ruled him without his knowledge, commanded his perturbed spirit into the abstracted quiet and bitter silence wherein he lived, and which she sought to cheer by a thousand happy devices. [11]
And then it was discomforting to see Huck eying Joe's preparations so wistfully, and keeping up such an ominous silence. [5]
Every surrounding object was buried in silence save that from the neighboring Dens of the royal steeds, came the sound of the rattle of a chain, or of the stamp of a stallion's hoof. [10]
The homeward tramp was accomplished in brooding silence. [5]
But the silence was a little awkward. [5]
After that we walked along together in silence, my own mind heavily occupied with what I had seen and heard. [9]
They paced the walk again in silence. [11]
Eva's shriek had waked both, but Els enjoined silence on everyone and, after telling them to go back to bed, said briefly that Eva in her somnambulism had this time gone out into the street and been brought back by the knight. [10]
As we stood waiting on the platform, a telegraphic message was handed in silence to my companion. [6]
The old man waited for a minute in a painful silence, then he turned slowly round, and, with tight-pressed lips, looked at the woman in the rocking-chair. [11]
Sometimes, in low voices, we talked of our future; but often, when the wind blew and the deck rocked and the sun flashed upon the waters, a silence would fall between us that needed no word to interpret. [9]
The roar of voices subsided--he waited for it--and silence was broken only by the crackle of the burning building, the tramp of Montcalm's soldiers in Mountain Street, and the tolling of the cathedral bell. [11]
There was no voice of rebuke; but there were averted eyes; there was a silence and an air of solemnity that struck a chill to the culprit's heart. [5]
Everything was plainly visible, for the desert tract of the Nekropolis, where at this hour utter darkness and silence usually reigned, was brightly lighted up. [10]
What if the violent throbbing of her heart should silence her voice? [10]
He had chosen very good men for his recruits; for, though they talked much among themselves, they drew a cordon of silence round their little society of revolution. [11]
He had been very deferential to Miss Silence, and had wound himself into the confidence of Miss Badlam. [6]
The multitude gave vent to their impatience by shouting, singing, and quarrelling; but the priests and magnates on the steps preserved a dignified and solemn silence. [10]
He wished the venerable minister to prepare Miss Silence Withers for a revelation which would materially change her future prospects. [6]
A solemn and utter silence surrounded him, and when the eagle swooped down and vanished from his sight, and the mist rolled lower into the valley, he felt that here, alone, he was high above all other living beings, and standing nearer to the Divinity. [10]
Suddenly she felt urged to break the silence, and as if she could not help it she asked: "Am I the other? [10]
Vandewaters picked it up, and regarded him a moment in silence. [11]
Macrinus then stepped up to Caesar's side, and the lictors who followed him, by lowering their fasces, signaled to the warriors to keep silence. [10]
As it pulled up at the curb, a silence fell between them. [9]
It was not until we reached the road and had begun to climb out of the valley that the silence was broken between us. [9]
The question was unnecessary, and she knew it was so; but she could not bear the strain of the silence. [11]
For the will under which Silence Withers, sister of the deceased, has inherited is dated some years previous to the decease, and it was not very strange that a will of later date should be discovered. [6]
She ain't the type," said Mr. Hopkins, slowly, not without a note of regret, and lapsed into silence. [9]
In silence these two watched the red wagon till it was out of sight. [11]
Sometimes as the two talked Angele would join them; and then there was a sudden silence, which made her flush with embarrassment, anxiety or anger. [11]
In silence the two rounded the cliff, and saw him no more. [11]
We rode our two miles in silence, and wide apart. [5]
The silence holding two men now held three, and a curious, cold astonishment possessed the two younger. [11]
At half past two in the morning the dead silence of the village was broken by a crashing explosion, and the town patrol saw the preacher's house spring in a wreck of whirling fragments into the sky. [5]
Colonel Carvel's face twitched, and the silence in that little room seemed to throb. [9]
The stranger spat twice, regarded Mr. Brice pityingly, and finally led him in silence past the picket fence and the New England-looking meeting-house opposite until they came to the great square on which the State House squatted. [9]
She had been trying her powers of consolation on Miss Silence. [6]
She had been troubled and tried beyond bearing, and her impulsive nature revolted at his silence. [11]
The sound of trotting horses had ceased, and there was silence broken only by a faint, dry pattering of cottonwood leaves in the soft night wind. [13]
If, however, he tried to keep a vow of silence in the chair of execution, he paid a heavy price; for Berry had his own methods of punishment. [11]
The call had trembled in the air but once and had died away into unbroken silence. [11]
And so they travelled on in silence for a long time, and slowly they came to the opal haze, which smelled sweet as floating flowers, and gave their hearts a halcyon restfulness. [11]

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