Stillness in example sentence

From time to time above the stillness of the wintry afternoon had arisen the far-away call of a farm girl or of a lad hailing a comrade from one clump of firs to another, and each time that long call over the desolate hills had made me shudder as if it were the voice of Meaulnes inviting me to follow him from afar . . .

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So astronomers in the far future looking out into deep space will see nothing but an endless stretch of static, inky, black stillness.

And I began to think that really, movement was only as good as the sense of stillness that you could bring to it to put it into perspective.

And I began to think that something in me had really been crying out for stillness, but of course I couldn't hear it because I was running around so much.

The heart fights among the swamps, skirts the edge of the underworld, falls exhausted, but won't give in to what's easy, while irregular steps of intoxication wake up, wake the stillness.

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