It was very difficult for me to speak of Carlton and our wonderful life that is buried out there on the mountain side, but he is indeed sympathetic and never interrupted the long and frequent silences that my inmost memory created.
It was Olive who made the time pass for him; and as the occasion was not one for personal sarcasm or question of the Christian religion, her task in keeping the old pagan out of rather abysmal silences must have had its difficulties.
A quiet day for the infantry, but our artillery silences several hostile batteries and causes many casualties in a body of infantry observed north of Irles.
The enemy massing troops, and an intense bombardment by our artillery silences many batteries and breaks up hostile formations.
Did old Booch over there, for example, guzzling oysters, cry at times upon the unknown God in the vast silences of the night?
For two days of abundant silences he had been preparing a statement of his case for her, he had been full of the danger to his research and all the waste of his life that her extravagance threatened.
One brief verse, the brevity of which gives it emphasis, tells of the singer's fears, and of how he silences them by the dead lift of effort by which he constrains himself to trust.
She kept off, she stayed away, she left him free; and what, moreover, were her silences to Maggie but a direct aid to him?
The cups were still there on the table, but turned upside down; and nothing was left for the companions but to confirm by placid silences the fact that the wine had been good.
It helped them, unmistakably, with each other, weakening the emphasis of so many of the silences of which their intimate intercourse would otherwise have consisted.
The rest of us had been soberly sipping our tea, and when the Doctor and the Annexes stopped talking there was one of those dead silences which are sometimes so hard to break in upon, and so awkward while they last.
He knew enough about men to appreciate the tactful silencesof the stranger, and when Billy Louise, on the way home, predicted that the nephew was going to be a success, Ward did not feel like qualifying the verdict.
Mrs. MacDonald, as is the way of some women who know the weight of isolation, had a habit of talking with a nervous haste at times, and of relapsing into long, brooding silences afterwards.
Sudden silenceswere frequent--an unspoken tribute to C.
Looking at it night after night when Mrs. Kinney was long abed and the grateful silences had drowned the noise of day, Anthony Trent longed for an emerald to bear these lordly jewels company.
In itself the technique was not difficult but he had no accomplices and at best it is a matter better fitted for offices in the night silences than a private residence.
The shadowy silences Have made me beautiful and dressed me in velvet dignities, And that is why The noise of tambourines has maddened my soul into dancing, And I am clad In the lust-lipped whispering of furtive caresses.
Grace knew that those sudden silences on her entrance into the room meant lively and excited discussion.
He passed from brooding silences into sudden bursts of declamation with such abruptness that strangers thought him very eloquent.
Long silences came between their words, which were no longer silences of struggle and confusion but refreshing silences, in which trivial thoughts moved easily.
So strange were the lights and the silence that the busy hum of voices which usually filled the dining-room at meal times had distinct gaps in it, and during these silences the clatter of the knives upon plates became audible.
Mrs. Fielden did not sympathize, but one of her silences fell between us.
In the dark silences of the woods, you could smell the good smells of the travelling folk, hunting or being hunted, which you could not even see.
He can, however, avenge them and give them an honorable burial, Roland argues, and he and his friend continue bickering until the archbishop silences them, bidding Roland blow his horn.
When Charon grimly orders Dante back to earth, Virgil silences him with the brief statement: "so 'tis will'd where will and power are one.
I call those silences "Russian," because I know nothing like them in any other part of the world.
Children grasp it with thrilling comprehension; it silences the critical faculty of the intellectuals and animates the saint to tears of ecstasy, even to martyrdoms.
At night through the silences between the cannon, sometimes over the hills through the cold rains, came to Peter Mowbray's ears the sounds of church-bells.
In the long years of silences that part us Dimmed by my tears and darkened to my view, Close shall I hold my memories and my madness, Because of you.
A third way in which God makes His will known to man is by His silences, silences which are always eloquent.
Sowing day is a silent day, Resting night is a silent night; But whoso reaps the ripened corn Shall shout in his delight, While silences vanish away.
There fell one of the silences that usually came when Mr. Strong lost interest in a subject.
There are silences which tinkle or buzz in the ears, causing them to ache with stress and strain; silences dull and sad as a wad of wool; silences as searching as the odour of musk--as soothing as the perfume of violets.
The artist in so-called silences merely registers certain more or less delicate sound-waves flowing in easy contours, which others have not the leisure to distinguish.
There come to it ordinary folk of sober understanding and well-disciplined ideas and tastes, who pass their lives without disturbing primeval silences or insulting the free air with the flapping of any ostentatious flag.
Thus have I caught fleet silences as they passed in chase of fugitive sounds.
He had spoken not a single word; he had carried the silence of his soul into the infinite silences of death.
But I know that in the long silences of the night while I sit reflecting after the day's toil is done--that something shall go forth from me to you, and you shall turn restlessly in your sleep and remember my kisses.
Tis when we strive to interpret our silences that we misunderstand one another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
