What is "soundless"

Usage examples of "soundless".

Both of them were heavily armed, multibladed swords in both hands, and dancing around each other like soundless ghosts as they defended themselves against multiple attackers.

Beside her, Bishop Narve had tenderly gathered the little princess to his breast, his lined face contorted in a soundless grimace of grief.

The premonition whispered in her mind and she screamed back at it in soundless despair.

He glanced up and saw that bunches of bees filled the trees - soundless, immobile bees.

Hurriedly, Chon Look raised the silent gong and made a soundless stroke.

He moved with soundless tread to the bed and placed the candle on the nightstand where it would spread its glow over the one he had come to see.

Hari Coplin swung his halberd in defense of his brother, mouth wide in a seemingly soundless shout.

She was soundless, as inconsequential as the Orps that scattered at its coming.

And this embroidery, hanging on this wall, Hung there forever,--these so soundless glidings Of dragons golden-scaled, sheer birds of azure, Coilings of leaves in pale vermilion, griffins Drawing their rainbow wings through involutions Of mauve chrysanthemums and lotus flowers,-- This goblin wood where someone cries enchantment,-- This says, just such an involuted beauty Of thought and coiling thought, dream linked with dream, Image to image gliding, wreathing fires, soundlessly cries enchantment in your mind: You need but sit and close your eyes a moment To see these deep designs unfold themselves.

Half a dozen lifeless steamboats, a mile of empty wharves, a negro fatigued with whiskey stretched asleep, in a wide and soundless vacancy, where the serried hosts of commerce used to contend!

She could hear each wingstroke beat the air like the pound of an enormous heart as the dragon dropped down, swooping in a soundless glide, then banking one wing to circle lazily over the plaza.

Swathed in degraded mourning garments, frames, which only a little while before were scrap iron and then, resurrected as skeletons, were invested with noisy or soundless mechanisms and submitted to various mechanical and acoustical tests, now stand in weeping circles on the bare-scraped floor.

He took one himself, replaced the case, absently picked up a box of matches lying in front of the nearest gunner and if he noticed the gunner's startled disbelief, the slow beginnings of a smile, the tired shoulders slumping fractionally in a long, soundless sigh of relief, he gave no sign.

Demoniac clouds, up-pil'd in chasmy reach Of soundless heav'n, smother'd the brooding night.

And this embroidery, hanging on this wall, Hung there forever, -- these so soundless glidings Of dragons golden-scaled, sheer birds of azure, Coilings of leaves in pale vermilion, griffins Drawing their rainbow wings through involutions Of mauve chrysanthemums and lotus flowers, -- This goblin wood where someone cries enchantment, -- This says, just such an involuted beauty Of thought and coiling thought, dream linked with dream, Image to image gliding, wreathing fires, soundlessly cries enchantment in your mind: You need but sit and close your eyes a moment To see these deep designs unfold themselves.