Schoolmaster's order

Usage examples of silence.

His hot face had leaned forward a little too confidentially and he had assumed a very low Dublin accent, so that the young ladies, with one instinct, received his speech in silence.

And Granny Aching wrapped this silence around herself and made room inside it for Tiffany.

The absolute silence of this seldom used dungeon was broken by a creaking sound, exactly the sound, he realised, of the handle to the door below that gave admittance upon the prisoners.

All they knew they learned from aerograms, one from Admiral Durenne off the Isle of Wight saying that the Portsmouth forts had been silenced and the Fleet action had begun, and another from the Commodore of the squadron off Folkestone saying that all was going well, and the landing would shortly be effected: and thus they fully expected to have the three towns and the entrance to the Thames at their mercy by the following day.

What can this absolute and remarkable silence mean between two people who look as affectionately on each other as these two look, every time their eyes meet!

Upwards, now, in silence, the two men climbed until at last they reached a corridor which was aflare with dancing torchlight.

I think that, in such a case, to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy.

They sat in silence, and after a moment Alec realized that they must be waiting for something.

The Marchese surveyed it for a moment in silence, and then alighting from his horse, asked eagerly for the Signora, and was directed into one of the saloons.

He put his hand out to see what it would touch and felt pain all over him like something that had been crouching there in the silence waiting for him to stir.

The allegation on the tapes that Vernon Jordan was trying to silence Lewinsky with a job was the perfect link to their investigation of Jordan, whom they suspected was trying to silence Webster Hubbell by helping him get a lucrative contract with Revlon.

This was so new and strange a thing for her who had built her life upon her own silence and aloneness that she pushed it from her foremind, telling herself that there might well be trouble in the foothills, and two fighters were better than one if that came.

Chinese and Tibet and the mountain, finally dropping into an exhausted silence as alpenglow lit Everest orange.

But Amado Ortega would have had no reason to sense danger in the unusual silence.

He stood on a mountain at sunrise, and saw the marvels of the amethystine clouds below his feet, heard an eternal and white silence, such as broods among the everlasting snows, and saw an eagle winging for the sun.