Muffle

Usage examples of hush.

There was a long hush, for no single wolf cared to fight Akela to the death.

Furtiveness and secretiveness seemed universal in this hushed city of alienage and death, and I could not escape the sensation of being watched from ambush on every hand by sly, staring eyes that never shut.

Over all this hushed desolation played a hideous leaden light as the declining afternoon sun sent its rays through the strange, half-blackened panes of the great apsidal windows.

Angry debate in the Senate and upon the forum was now hushed, and the supreme question that took hold of national life was to find enduring arbitrament in the dread tribunal of war.

When he tried, rather breathlessly, to compliment me on the avid ardency with which I was embracing him, I bade him hush, for I did not care to hear talk.

More than mystified by the whole hushed proceeding, Asey followed him through the house, and into the front parlour.

The throng hushed and everyone in the square and at the buvettes froze in place and turned towards a narrow alleyway across the way.

Who can realize that the workings of that mighty mind have ceased, that the throbbings of that gallant heart are stilled, that the mighty sweep of that graceful arm will be felt no more, and the magic of that eloquent tongue, which spake as spake no other tongue besides, is hushed hushed for ever!

Jenna heard the call of the ancient oaks, the green life in the most ancient and lost hollows of Thall Coill, a compelling whisper that rustled the leaves above them, that caused the oaks to bend down with many-limbed branches, that hushed the call of the mage-lights nearly invisible under the canopy of the forest.

Where the public feels knee-jerk fright, Cyfer expresses hushed elation.

We would often remain a whole hour opposite each other without exchanging a single word, and our sighs would be heard whatever we did to hush them.

As her explanation did not seem likely to end in the way she wished, she went on talking about the weakness of the flesh, the strength of selflove which often hushes the voice of passion, etc.

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The very rattle of the shingle under my feet and the jingle of my navy scabbard seemed offensive in the perfect hush, and, too awed to be frightened, I presently turned away from the dreadful shine of those cliffs and felt my way along the base of the wall on my own side.

The minutes seemed to drag along with leaden feet, and the quiet, the solemn hush, that brooded over all -- big, as it were, with a coming fate, was most oppressive to the spirits.