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Silently in sentence

218 examples of Silently in a sentence

Then, after a slight leap, the cage plunged silently, falling like a stone, only leaving behind it the vibrating flight of a cable.
The men, to avoid going to the public-house, slept all day long; the women while dividing the coffee became reasonable, less anxious to gossip and quarrel; and even the troops of children seemed to understand it all, and were so good that they ran about with naked feet, smacking each other silently.
Maheude silently shook her head at the Levaque woman's muttered oaths.
Silently they hastened on, hindered by the swinging of the corpse, and obliged to place it on the ground every hundred metres.
A few moments later, eight strapping fellows appeared silently, their faces like masks, and dragged us down into their fearsome machine.
I regarded him with intense excitement, silently analyzing his strange facial expression.
After the door to my stateroom was closed, he sat and stared at me silently.
When I rejoined Captain Nemo, I found him leaning silently against a piece of rock and staring at the sky.
I reentered my stateroom, where Ned and Conseil were waiting silently.
She held him by one arm, her basket hanging from the other; the wind blew the long lace of her Cauchois headdress so that it sometimes flapped across his mouth, and when he turned his head he saw near him, on his shoulder, her little rosy face, smiling silently under the gold bands of her cap.
They all wore orders, and smiled silently as they made their strokes.
On the other side of the chimney a young man with fair hair watched her silently.
Emma silently nestled against Charles's shoulder; then, raising her chin, she watched the luminous rays of the rockets against the dark sky.
She got up and dressed silently, in order not to awaken Charles, who would have made remarks about her getting ready too early.
Sometimes a gust of wind drove the clouds towards the Saint Catherine hills, like aerial waves that broke silently against a cliff.
Then they looked at one another silently.
From time to time a hawk, risen from the bare cliffs above his head, caught his eye as it wheeled silently in its vast circles.
Julien was silently watching the abbe as he read over again the letter of resignation, when suddenly the door burst open.
As she silently approached the door of the room in which he was, carrying the plate carefully, she found herself face to face with the servant who had hidden the ladder that morning.
At that moment, he too was coming silently along the corridor, as though listening.
At the end of the sofa, opposite to that occupied by the brilliant Mathilde, Julien was silently installed upon a little cane-bottomed chair with a low seat.
As he reached the window, she opened it silently:'Here you are, Sir,' Mathilde said to him with deep emotion; 'I have been following your movements for the last hour.'
He succeeded in forcing the door of a cellar; once in the house he was obliged to break open, as silently as possible, the door of his own room.
The lawyer, in contrast, did not ask questions but did all the talking himself or sat silently facing him, leant forward slightly over the desk, probably because he was hard of hearing, pulled on a strand of hair in the middle of his beard and looked down at the carpet, perhaps at the very spot where K. had lain with Leni.
Church staff creep silently as part of their job, you don't notice them.
"But General Gates is an Englishman, Sarah," cried the younger lady, with quickness; then, coloring to the eyes at her own boldness, she employed herself in tumbling over the contents of her work basket, silently hoping the remark would be unnoticed.
Into one of these recesses Captain Wharton now threw himself, drawing the curtain before him in such a manner as to conceal most of his person from observation; while his younger sister, losing her natural frankness of manner, in an air of artificial constraint, silently took possession of the other.
Frances silently led the way into a vacant parlor, opposite to the one in which the family were assembled, and turning to the soldier frankly, placing both her hands in his own, exclaimed,-"Ah, Dunwoodie!
The impatient major pointed silently to his friend, and the surgeon quickened his movements.
"And you will not pay us, then, Captain Lawton?" said the Skinner, trembling in every joint, for just then he saw a party of mounted dragoons silently encircling the whole party.
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