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A groan escaped from poor Potter, and he put his face in his hands and rocked his body softly to and fro, while a painful silence reigned in the courtroom.
When they reached the haunted house there was something so weird and grisly about the dead silence that reigned there under the baking sun, and something so depressing about the loneliness and desolation of the place, that they were afraid, for a moment, to venture in.
The blackness of darkness reigned, the perfect stillness was interrupted only by occasional mutterings of distant thunder.
The children fastened their eyes upon their bit of candle and watched it melt slowly and pitilessly away; saw the half inch of wick stand alone at last; saw the feeble flame rise and fall, climb the thin column of smoke, linger at its top a moment, and then--the horror of utter darkness reigned!
They thought the devil had helped me, they said, that I had reigned so long; they expected me there many years ago, and was I come at last?
Gentle warmth and pleasant fragrance reigned over all, and not a sound broke the silence, save the crackling and little sharp reports of the wood aglow on the hearth.
With this they fell asleep, and deep silence reigned all through the inn.
They went in to dinner, and the repast was such as Don Diego said on the road he was in the habit of giving to his guests, neat, plentiful, and tasty; but what pleased Don Quixote most was the marvellous silence that reigned throughout the house, for it was like a Carthusian monastery.
The duke and duchess, as it was they who had made the experiment of this adventure, were ready to burst with laughter at all this, and between themselves they commended the clever acting of the Trifaldi, who, returning to her seat, said, "Queen Dona Maguncia reigned over the famous kingdom of Kandy, which lies between the great Trapobana and the Southern Sea, two leagues beyond Cape Comorin.
Cleanliness and quiet reigned throughout the house; and in it Mr. Pickwick's will was law.
A silence of death reigned in the cabin as in the pavilion; but as the cabin was his last resource, he knocked again.
It may be seen by these disastrous details that desolation reigned in the community.
But silence reigned in all this little world at the arrival of the soup, and the national taciturnity resumed its empire even over the children.
A deep silence reigned around us, the silence of the grave.
Silence reigned in this gallery.
No light could penetrate between their huge cones, and complete darkness reigned beneath those giants; they formed settlements of domes placed in close array like the round, thatched roofs of a central African city.
Black night reigned again; and there was no hope left of being able to dissipate the palpable darkness.
A perfect calm reigned around them.
Absolute silence, perfect calm reigned in the air and on the water.
Deep silence reigned in the corral.
Desolation reigned everywhere.
The wind had fallen, and absolute silence reigned under the great trees.
Solemn silence reigned in this basaltic cavern.
A deathlike silence reigned under the vaulted roof, or at least in the anterior portion, for soon Cyrus Harding distinctly heard the rumbling which proceeded from the bowels of the mountain.
Turning now to the opposite characters of Commodus, Severus, Antoninus Caracalla, and Maximinus, you will find them all cruel and rapacious-men who, to satisfy their soldiers, did not hesitate to commit every kind of iniquity against the people; and all, except Severus, came to a bad end; but in Severus there was so much valour that, keeping the soldiers friendly, although the people were oppressed by him, he reigned successfully; for his valour made him so much admired in the sight of the soldiers and people that the latter were kept in a way astonished and awed and the former respectful and satisfied.
A deep silence reigned over this domain.
The dictation was not finished and disorder reigned in the classroom.
Everything was asleep, everywhere reigned darkness and the deep silence which precede the first glimmer of dawn.
I opened the glass-door in the breakfast-room: the shrubbery was quite still: the black frost reigned, unbroken by sun or breeze, through the grounds.
Silence composes the nerves; and as an unbroken hush now reigned again through the whole house, I began to feel the return of slumber.
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