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Silence in sentence

1929 examples of Silence in a sentence

And the tranquil moon bathed this surging sea, the deep forest encircled with its vast silence this cry of massacre.
Chaval listened in silence, with his fists at first clenched, but then gradually unbent.
For the last few minutes groups of miners had been constantly passing the carriage; they went by in silence, with sidelong looks at the luxurious equipage which forced them to stand aside.
"I'll come and make you move, I will!"Nothing stirred, there was only the same silence, as of death.
" There was silence.
There was deep silence, and this noise seemed to fill the whole pit; all raised their heads, looking and listening, seized by emotion.
And Jean-Bart fell suddenly into a great silence.
Out of the profound silence an impression of good-natured comfort arose, the patriarchal sensation of good beds and a good table, the wise happiness of the proprietor's existence.
At first he had been about to knock her down; then, after having wiped his face with the movement of a man who is recovering from intoxication, he said to Chaval, in the midst of deep silence:"She is right; that's enough.
He put his head between his hands again, with his fingers over his eyes, and buried himself in the deep silence of the empty house, where he only heard now and then the noise of the cook's saucepans as she bustled about preparing the evening's dinner.
M.Hennebeau looked on in silence, turning from his wife to this lover whom in the morning he had been swearing to kill, then to this young girl by whom he would, no doubt, soon be freed from him.
And the cries ceased, and silence spread over the growing darkness.
Before the Estaminet Tison, Rasseneur only remained, feeling relieved, and with open face applauding the easy victory of the sabres; while in dim and deserted Montsou, in the silence of the closed houses, the bourgeois remained with perspiring skins and chattering teeth, not daring to look out.
On the morrow of that terrible day this calm had come about at once, hiding such a panic that the greatest silence possible was kept concerning the damage and the atrocities.
The silence buzzed in his ears, he only heard the flight of a band of rats, the cracking of the old timber, the tiny sound of a spider weaving her web.
So Madame Rasseneur, motionless at the counter, preserved an irritated silence; while Rasseneur, standing before the iron fireplace, seemed to be gazing with a reflective air at the brown smoke from the coal.
Suddenly, in this heavy silence of an over-heated room, three light quick blows struck against one of the windowpanes made Souvarine turn his head.
And there was silence once more.
After an awkward silence he made up his mind:"Poland?
There was silence, and neither the landlord nor the two others stirred from their places.
Then, as the same contemptuous silence greeted his provocations, he turned furiously on Catherine.
There was deep silence in the warm room, the low crackling of the coal was alone heard.
It required all the force of order to keep them thus, with mute faces, in the proud, gloomy silence of military discipline.
At first there was a recoil, followed by deep silence; the strikers were astonished at this energetic stroke.
The rain of bricks increased, and he opened his mouth and was about to shout "Fire!" when the guns went off of themselves three shots at first, then five, then the roll of a volley, then one by itself, some time afterwards, in the deep silence.
They also obtained silence regarding the sentinel who had disappeared from the Voreux; the district had been searched without finding either the gun or the corpse, and although there was a suspicion of crime, it was decided to consider the soldier a deserter.
Silence crushed the low houses.
And her long silence broke out into a furious flood of words.
The innkeeper shut the door, while the band dispersed; and the two men looked at each other in silence.
But the sound was lost in the deep silence, and they set to wedging their wood again, dazed by the loud blows of the hammer.
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