Like the third letter of "talking"

Usage examples of silent.

She often returned home pale and silent, having reached the uttermost depths of human abomination, and never daring to say all.

These were the silent, empty remains of the accelerator ring that had once circled the planet, that had created the antimatter that fueled its economy, that had berthed its ships, warehoused its goods, and supported the lives of eighty million people.

The immortal productions of Virgil, Cicero, and Livy, which were accessible to the Christian Barbarians, maintained a silent intercourse between the reign of Augustus and the times of Clovis and Charlemagne.

Most new students find that silent prayer is the best method for achieving this state.

David and Deborah his manner remained always the same, jestingly ironic, scornfully loquacious, lovingly friendly of a sudden, then for a day, two days, a week utterly silent, while his eyes roved, his ears were acock listening for a step.

Notwithstanding these precautions, and his own example, the succession of consuls finally ceased in the thirteenth year of Justinian, whose despotic temper might be gratified by the silent extinction of a title which admonished the Romans of their ancient freedom.

Selim Aga, who till now had been smoking his narghile, silent and unmoved, got up.

The robots started off, the regular thudding of their footsteps silent in the airlessness, for the nonmetallic fabric of the insosuits did not transmit sound.

He motioned furtively to the Abenaki, in the almost universal sign language common to all nations of polyglot Alata, that he was to keep silent.

Should the need for action arise, be assured that I will look to the two of you-was He paused, catching sight of Alec sitting stiff and silent in his chair.

Clucking and grunting all the while, they repeated the performance over and over while Alec and Beka watched in silent delight.

Grinning in silent triumph, Alec lifted out a leather folder and heard the muffled crackle of parchment.

As silent partner, Alker had supplied the required cash, only to find that he owed Malvin more than he could raise, due to trick clauses in the agreements that they signed.

But we, the councillors, the members of the Amapakati, still stood silent.

Libby Ames, do you really love that buffoon of a doctor, he thought as he lay in restful peace in the silent room.