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Example sentences for "noiselessly"

Lexicographically close words:
noirs; nois; noise; noised; noiseless; noiselessness; noises; noisier; noisiest; noisily
  1. Silent footmen glided noiselessly backwards and forwards behind the chairs of the guests; champagne, Moselle, hock, and Burgundy sparkled in shallow glasses that were shaped like the broad leaf of a water-lily.

  2. Clement closed the door as noiselessly as he had opened it, and then went slowly to the sitting-room.

  3. Now they trickled noiselessly into their designated posts and slowly drew inward toward the common center of the house itself.

  4. So he edged backward into the tangle, moving like a crawfish and noiselessly took up his homeward journey.

  5. The three adventurers were then lowered from the wall by ropes, and having fastened the bladders around them, noiselessly entered the water.

  6. The intervals were short between them; but it would be quite possible on a dark night for a person to pass noiselessly without being perceived.

  7. Creeping quietly and noiselessly along, he could hear the constant challenges of the sentries round him.

  8. The whole body advanced noiselessly along the shore, and seized and gagged the sleepers without the least difficulty or noise.

  9. Scarcely had the man gone, when he returned, and noiselessly stepped on deck.

  10. Now and then a lazy alligator would run his long snout above the surface of the stream, like some water demon, and again glide noiselessly back into his slimy couch.

  11. One of his fat white hands held an automatic pistol, covering him; the other was carefully closing the door which he had noiselessly opened to admit him.

  12. He came noiselessly back in a moment or two, and during his absence no word was spoken.

  13. In a lull in the conversation, while the servants were out of the room and only Martha Leach was present behind the doctor's chair, I distinctly saw him noiselessly snap his fingers, and whisper something to her, and glance towards the girl.

  14. At last Barbara turned back into the room, and, taking up a candle, made her way slowly and noiselessly down the old house.

  15. The needle lay glittering beside her chair, the thimble rolled noiselessly over the trailing fold of her muslin gown into the folds of Margaret's white silk.

  16. The two sped swiftly and noiselessly down the street, which was now very dark.

  17. With one accord we noiselessly gathered up the pies and carried them into my room.

  18. A sudden stillness fell across the world; the wind died out; the foam ran noiselessly across the beach; the cricket's rune was stilled.

  19. She rose, and I rose, and she passed me with an inclination, stepping noiselessly into the house.

  20. She stopped at a mean-looking door, let into a dead-wall, and applying her hand to a secret spring, it opened noiselessly to her touch.

  21. It was at the risk of liberty and life, that he crept noiselessly forward, and peeped into the banqueting-hall, which was already partially lighted up for the feast.

  22. That is not as bad as it has been," whispered Constance, and noiselessly mounted the stairs.

  23. Tressilvain stood absolutely still, his close-set eyes fairly starting from his face, in which not a vestige of colour now remained; and when at length he left the room he left so noiselessly that Malcourt did not hear him.

  24. The larger savage dropped noiselessly to the ground, where he lay stretched out with his ear to the ground.

  25. Two savages paced noiselessly to and fro.

  26. The bushes parted noiselessly on his left, and the tall form of Wetzel appeared silently out of the gloom.

  27. Somethin' back of the barn," replied Jonathan, slipping noiselessly off the steps, lying at full length with his ear close to the ground.

  28. He came noiselessly behind a negro woman at the kitchen-door and threw three squirrels on the steps before her.

  29. Just outside the tent a figure slipped away as noiselessly as a snake.

  30. Her eyes, filled with scorn, met his in one long, sad, withering look, and she turned noiselessly back into the house.

  31. Clark's tall figure stole noiselessly into the great hall, where the Creoles were making merry and leaned silently with folded arms against the doorpost, looking on at the revels with a grave smile.

  32. Noiselessly too he melted into the garden, slipped down to the river-bank, and dropped to the ground.

  33. She moved noiselessly to the southern angle, hid herself among the plants, and peered through the glass.

  34. The crouching woman sprang erect, darted noiselessly up the steps, and grasped the door-handle.

  35. And then in the darkness, as he stole noiselessly across the hall, he shook his head.

  36. Jimmie Dale glanced sharply around him, slipped into the alleyway, and, crouching against the tenement wall, moved noiselessly along to the side entrance.

  37. He stole noiselessly across the yard, out into the lane, and made his way rapidly along to the cross street.

  38. If the Magpie did not take the hint and make his escape as noiselessly as he had entered--it was his own fault!

  39. He opened the door, closed it behind him, and in the utter blackness went noiselessly up the stairs--stairs so rickety that it seemed a mouse's tread alone would have set them creaking.

  40. Jimmie Dale did not answer--he went on noiselessly down the stairs.

  41. He stepped noiselessly inside, and closed it noiselessly behind him.

  42. Jimmie Dale turned the key noiselessly in the lock.

  43. He edged back noiselessly until his fingers touched the table; then, lowering himself to his knees, he backed in underneath it, and lay flat upon the floor.

  44. The shade was drawn, only a yellow murk filtered out into the black, unlighted lane, but suddenly he started noiselessly toward it.

  45. Jimmie Dale moved stealthily from the recess, and noiselessly to the desk.

  46. The other hand is then introduced beneath it, and the bundle slipped noiselessly in.

  47. She has fallen asleep and forgotten it," she thought, and softly turning the knob, pushed the door noiselessly open and entered.

  48. As the sleek rubber shoes spun noiselessly and swiftly along the avenue the myriad lights that were beginning to gleam wove into a twinkling mist.

  49. Noiselessly as she had descended, she crept again up the stair.

  50. She drew the curtain and opened the window noiselessly to the night.

  51. Slipping off her shoes, she went swiftly and noiselessly down the stair.

  52. The white bulldog scurried noiselessly back and forth across the clipped grass, now emerging like a canine ghost in the light from the doorway, now suffering total eclipse.

  53. At the entrance of the cherry lane, he fastened his horse to the hedge, and noiselessly let down the pasture-bars for her golden chestnut.

  54. He set down the poker noiselessly and took the weapon.

  55. Then he noiselessly lifted himself upright, and resting the pistol on the screen-top, took deliberate aim and pulled the trigger.

  56. Softly and noiselessly she slipped into the next room, the door of which stood ajar, and opened with hurried hand a carton filled with ribbons and bows.

  57. The door turned slowly and noiselessly on its hinges, and softly, like shades, the two entered.

  58. The fusuma behind her closed as noiselessly as they had opened.

  59. So instead of having to remove the whole chain, each clasping by a metal hand, its neighbor, she had but to unbar the initial panel, coax it noiselessly apart just far enough to emit a not too bulky form, and then the night would be hers.

  60. One rainy morning, being already in an ill humor over some trifling household affair, she was startled and annoyed by the sudden vision of Tatsu's head thrust noiselessly into her kitchen.

  61. She left the room noiselessly as she had come.

  62. He all but closed the door of the room after him, and I slipped from my shelter and crept as noiselessly as I could after him.

  63. The passage outside the room was in darkness; but I knew in which direction I had been carried into the room, and crept noiselessly toward the front door of the house.

  64. But one night, when the wind was roaming in the desert and with a hissing sound the cypresses were bending over the roof, she dressed noiselessly and secretly left the house.

  65. Noiselessly did Rome crumble down, and a new city stood on its site and it too was swallowed by the void.

  66. Suddenly she felt some presence close to her in the dark; she held her breath; she shrank noiselessly between the plumes of heath.

  67. Reassured, she pushed the door cautiously and noiselessly open, and stepped inside, and closed the door behind her.

  68. If one could have moved as noiselessly as a shadow moves, one could have passed another within arm's-length unseen.

  69. Even as he gazed it glided on nearer and nearer, and at last beached itself noiselessly on the sands before his own feet.

  70. Pomfrey, not entirely satisfied in his mind, nevertheless softly followed the noiselessly gliding Jim to the lighthouse.

  71. He sprang towards the counter, but at the same moment Allen seemed to slip almost imperceptibly and noiselessly between them, and Kane found himself confronted only by the miner's broad back.

  72. Converted his fingers into tongs, and so from the coalbox noiselessly replenished the fire.

  73. Noiselessly walked behind him; stood so, leaning over the bed rail.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "noiselessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.