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Stillness in sentence

72 examples of Stillness in a sentence

By and by, out of the stillness, little, scarcely perceptible noises began to emphasize themselves.
The hooting of a distant owl was all the sound that troubled the dead stillness.
The stillness was complete again, too.
The stillness, the solemnity that brooded in the woods, and the sense of loneliness, began to tell upon the spirits of the boys.
The stillness continued; the master searched face after face for signs of guilt.
The blackness of darkness reigned, the perfect stillness was interrupted only by occasional mutterings of distant thunder.
There was no sound--the stillness was perfect.
Now, for the first time, the deep stillness of the place laid a clammy hand upon the spirits of the children.
The boys began to quiet down to whispers, now, for the stillness and gloom of the place oppressed their spirits.
A chill of fear struck to my heart at its whiteness and its stillness.
The lamp shed its faint gleams on her white face, and her words sounded particularly sweet in the silence and stillness of the room.
This strange stillness, and the thoughts, always present to our knight's mind, of the incidents described at every turn in the books that were the cause of his misfortune, conjured up to his imagination as extraordinary a delusion as can well be conceived, which was that he fancied himself to have reached a famous castle (for, as has been said, all the inns he lodged in were castles to his eyes), and that the daughter of the innkeeper was daughter of the lord of the castle, and that she, won by his high-bred bearing, had fallen in love with him, and had promised to come to his bed for a while that night without the knowledge of her parents; and holding all this fantasy that he had constructed as solid fact, he began to feel uneasy and to consider the perilous risk which his virtue was about to encounter, and he resolved in his heart to commit no treason to his lady Dulcinea del Toboso, even though the queen Guinevere herself and the dame Quintanona should present themselves before him.
In a word, I quitted the house and reached that of the man with whom I had left my mule; I made him saddle it for me, mounted without bidding him farewell, and rode out of the city, like another Lot, not daring to turn my head to look back upon it; and when I found myself alone in the open country, screened by the darkness of the night, and tempted by the stillness to give vent to my grief without apprehension or fear of being heard or seen, then I broke silence and lifted up my voice in maledictions upon Luscinda and Don Fernando, as if I could thus avenge the wrong they had done me.
Luffey!'Everybody was hushed into a profound stillness as the individual addressed, replied--'Sir!''I wish to address a few words to you, Sir, if you will entreat the gentlemen to fill their glasses.'
The first stroke of the hour sounded solemnly in his ear, but when the bell ceased the stillness seemed insupportable--he almost felt as if he had lost a companion.
'He was seated here, one calm evening, in his old position, now and then raising his head to watch the flight of a sea-gull, or carry his eye along the glorious crimson path, which, commencing in the middle of the ocean, seemed to lead to its very verge where the sun was setting, when the profound stillness of the spot was broken by a loud cry for help; he listened, doubtful of his having heard aright, when the cry was repeated with even greater vehemence than before, and, starting to his feet, he hastened in the direction whence it proceeded.
Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, that we were in the country.
"Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open.
The stillness and the loneliness closed on Tarvin with a physical grip as Kate got up and said decisively that she must go home.
Then a porcupine crossed under his nose with a rustle of quills, and left an evil stench to poison the stillness for a moment.
In a few minutes there crept out of the stillness a sound like the far-off rustle of wind across a wheat-field on a still autumn day.
Then, in the stillness of the morning, Tarvin heard the dry click of a voice he understood.
The lately roaring winds are hushed into a dead calm; nature seems to breathe no more, and to be sinking into the stillness of death.
Even now, in the stillness of death, the huge jaws seemed to be dripping with a bluish flame and the small, deep-set, cruel eyes were ringed with fire.
The Knight turned towards the throne, and, sinking his lance, until the point was within a foot of the ground, remained motionless, as if expecting John's commands; while all admired the sudden dexterity with which he instantly reduced his fiery steed from a state of violent emotion and high excitation to the stillness of an equestrian statue.
Only occasionally, in the stillness, he listened to the clicking of her needles and, remembering what he did not wish to remember, made a wry face.
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 . . .
I abhor artifice, particularly in children; it is my duty to show you that tricks will not answer: you will now stay here an hour longer, and it is only on condition of perfect submission and stillness that I shall liberate you then."
A light shone through the keyhole and from under the door; a profound stillness pervaded the vicinity.
"I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.
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