She forgot her anxiety for a few moments during the hushthat attended the solemn rendering of the marriage service.
He was willing to do anything to hush the matter up," added Uncle Joseph.
An ominous hush fell over the assemblage of cowboys on the corral fence and they looked from Billee Dobb to the owner of Diamond X.
Perhaps the strange hush which always precedes the dawn, or perhaps the sorrow that pervaded all hearts on account of Bud's absence had an influence on Kid and he was more solemn.
Skag noticed that the hush in the air seemed to have laid a bond of silence on all these creatures.
The hush about it and from the mountains touched him with a feeling that he had not quite known before, the depth of it having to do with Carlin.
A suddenhush fell on the jostling crew as the prisoner raised his fettered hands in grave obeisance, and then solemnly, vigorously, spat to right and left ere he began: "Snakes gorged to impotence by their own greed!
He is calling down the blessing of the one true God upon your head, now and for all eternity," he answered slowly, and there was a sort of hush in his voice.
Hush a minute, and see what I'm going to say to her!
A hush followed her words, then a cheer broke involuntarily from her hearers.
An expectant hush fell upon the group, and even Lizzi's thumping heart beat more softly as she awaited her blind friend's story.
His conviction had been unhesitatingly expressed, but his sympathy could not find suitable language except in a song that was used to hush a crying infant.
Yet it cost her a pang of regret as she thought of the quiet walls in Mexico which she used to look upon with a hush of awe, and dream of the lives of peace and holiness passed behind them.
Could we desire To quench that diadem's celestial light, To hush thy song and stay thy heavenward flight, Because we miss thee by this autumn fire?
Then through a hushlike death Stalks Denmark's mailëd ghost!
Either Potiphar was singularly lenient, or, as is perhaps more probable, he did not quite believe his wife's story, and thought it best to hush up a scandal.
They only understand their place as Christ's servants and soldiers who have learned to hush their own will until they know their Captain's.
The stones would be dropped fast enough, and a hush of dread would follow the howling rage of the angry crowd.
Eastern Dancers were then appearing at Earl's Court, he had determined to let his passionate, with fire-aflaming spirit "drink deep of the hush of the hyacinth heavens.
She never raised her eyes from the ground, never paused in her swinging gait, until she reached the brown hush of the beechwood which divided the Rectory garden from the southern extremity of the park.
No hush lay over the land as it did in the east, but there were wild sudden storm flurries, and as Kit expressed it, a feeling in the air as if there might be a regular circus of a cataclysm any minute.
A sort of balmy hush seemed to lie over the barren land, as though spring had chosen to steal upon it sleeping.
The hush of evening was in the air when he knocked at Bunker Hill's door and after a look about Old Bunk went back into the house and brought out a heavy pistol.
The next team did no better, for it is a heart-breaking test and the sun was getting hot, and when Denver and Owen mounted up on the platform a hush fell upon the crowd.
The pines stood up strong in their immortal verdure, the thick golden hush of the summer afternoon lay like an enchantment about the low brown house.
The intensity of his listening attitude seemed to hush into breathlessness the very night about him, as it did Sylvia.
In the strange hush succeeding the frenzied uproar that announced the presence of a host of armed natives, the envoy's words were clearly audible to the five people in the upper rooms.
Over all lay a sweet hush of promise, timid yet spreading far and wide.
Now, even the wind died down and a hush fell over all things.
They were becoming scarcer and rarer because of the descending autumn that lay like a hush over the tired world.
A hush fell on the crowd as they caught sight of her face--a hush of silent tribute to the clear sweet womanhood of that pure countenance.
The doorbell rang, and a hush fell over the chattering assemblage; then came the proud announcement from the doorman--"General Ulysses S.
Hush dear," said Miss Pinkwood with a kindly pat, for she loved her little charges and it hurt her to see them unhappy.
It was carried off, as I am informed, by the Macfarlanes, whose anxiety to hush the affair is our main proof that they were on no honest expedition when this happened.
From the hush of these places, it is congenial to pass into the hushed resorts of business.
The hush of nature's mystic hour was abroad, and even the swiftly flowing river, rushing sullenly along its rocky bed no more than a stone's cast beyond the Indian path, seemed to pretermit its low thunderings.
A deep hush brooded over us, and before the sermon was over, many a face was hidden to conceal the emotion which could not be suppressed.
When they had ranged themselves on the vacant forms, there was a dead silence and hush of expectation.
Each time it takes me by surprise--that people do not hush their talk to kneel and listen.
