But as Anton Lennox made his renunciation he was lifted, as it were, to the seventh heaven, and we common men gazed silently at him, expecting to see him vanish out of our sight.
But without any agreement between ourselves, Wat and I silently resolved that we should not acquaint any of the party with the hideous judgments of that night, to which we had been eye-witnesses.
What I liked at all times about Maisie Lennox was that she never taunted back, but only took her own way when she wanted it--and she mostly did--silently and as if there were no other way in the world.
Presently a door swung open very silently to admit me, and I set my feet upon a soft carpet.
And here I saw the people begin to yearn towards the preacher, and in the grey light I saw the tears running silently down his cheeks.
Unclasping her darling's arms and gently laying them down, she silently signalled to Mrs. Ford and almost as silently left the room.
Then giving the Chief his finest military salute, the Captain "right faced" and silently marched away.
By daylight the visitors had gone, so silently that nobody in the house itself had heard their departure.
The Indians as silently followed him, the Chief first, and the others in single file, till they all disappeared toward the Barracks, and the youngsters were left gasping in amazement.
And the raccoon, silently triumphant, backed up again into her posture of defence against the rock.
Silently he fell upon the nearest, and tore him savagely.
He was now sitting up on his haunches on a floe, and staring silently at the volleying cloud which marked the Falls.
So far back from the gate of the senses drew the life within him, that when three gray-coated figures on snow-shoes went silently past on his old trail, he never saw them.
We kept the pig in furs at the bottom of the sledge, and drove silently into the forest.
As I lifted our curtain and saw the undulating line of dark forms moving silently in the dim starlight, and brought into relief against the snow hills, the scene appeared something more than terrestrial.
Then, expressing astonishment at having to resume the journey at so early an hour, the child submitted silently to orders.
Sadly and silently they assisted in laying the corpse in a cavity of the rocks, and covering it over with large stones to protect it from wolves, and then prepared to leave the spot.
I retired silently now to my room, and saw him pass out into the wide court.
There was then no time to lose; so I advised my companions to move silently and noiselessly from the house, and to follow me.
Nance made no reply to these words, but stood silently watching the anxious crowd near the steamer.
He forebore, however, and stood silently by her side, looking with her out over the lake.
He moved quietly forward, took his seat to the left of the fire, and remained silently there for the rest of the evening.
He then walked cautiously toward Martin's canoe, pushed it off, and paddled assilently as possible across the stream.
As Rutland stood by the grave and looked down upon all that remained of Nance's mother he thought of the dream which had come to him in the night, and he saw again the woman pointing silently to the child at his feet.
The Recorder's eyes opened wide in amazement, and he looked curiously at the rest of the men standing silently and grimly outside.
Martin rose suddenly to his feet, picked up his hat, and silently left the building.
Katharine silently conveyed to Jane her soft reproof and gentle admonition.
The sun spun silently like a spinning brass discus over the mainmast.
So said he, and the old man was afraid and obeyed his word, and fared silently along the shore of the loud-sounding sea.
And now it is because of thee that I am thus come hither, down from Olympus, lest perchance thou mightest be wroth with me hereafter, if silently I were gone to the mansion of deep-flowing Okeanos.
In the still hours of the night, when every noise was hushed and he deemed himself safe from intrusion, he would rise, silently open his closet for his carefully concealed volume and creep back to bed.
At these words, all arose and silently surrounded the Governor.
Here the soldiers were given their instructions, and silently and stealthily, lest they might arouse the village and invite resistance, they crept forth in twos, to the huts marked with the mystic sign of the cross.
The men promised and the little band walked silently back to their homes.
Sadly and silently the boys trudged onward, buffeting the wind and stifling their growing hunger.
On his entrance into the room, Loris gazed about him, and soon singled out Kathinka, standing among her friends, silently praying.
His voice had all the accent of sincerity and Helen looked up at him, thanking himsilently with her eyes.
He took courage to call upon Lucia and found her at home, sitting silently in the little parlour, the glow from the fire falling across her hair and tinting it with deep gleams of reddish gold.
Now he saw only her beauty and what seemed to him the truth of her eyes, and he swore again silently and for the twentieth time that he would not leave her until he saw her safe within the Northern lines.
To-night Wood came in, too, and sat silently in a chair, whittling a pine stick with a bowie-knife and evidently in deep thought.
Only Blake and Ray were with him when, after awhile, Mr. Field returned and stood silently before them.
A dead pony, under a quarter inch coverlet of snow, was what met the eyes of the silently trudging command as it followed.
I silently prayed and then beseeched my foster mother to keep the matter a profound secret.
Again out in the air, under God's own heaven, we walked along silently for quite a while.
A racer startled at close range often sets out with a violent thrashing that attracts attention to a given spot, then glides away so silently and rapidly that its course is not detected.
Denis and he looked silently at each other for a second or two.
The men waited for an instant, and then, as another shot was fired, withdrew into the hills, silently as they had appeared.
A strange emotion filled their hearts, and they went silentlyfrom one window to another.
His companions were silently watching the object, which grew prodigiously larger as it approached, and through a certain optical illusion it seemed as if the projectile were rushing upon it.
In delight and in devotion, Pausing from her whirling motion, Nature, in enchanted calm, Silently drinks the floating balm.
And silently your leaves enclose, The mightiest God in arch repose, Soft-cradled in the core.
As for Ben with his usual philosophic attitude toward mysteries, he filled his pipe and silently smoked.
Then he glided back to Lathrop assilently as he had left.
It was Professor Wiseman, who had glided up to them as silently as a cat.
Their slackened hands dropped; they looked one on another irresolute: and he, passing silently through the midst of them, went his way.
And the hopes that never on earth shall bloom, The sorrows forever new, Lay silently down at the feet of Him Who died and is risen for you.
And at the word, each old soldier sprang also to his feet, and removed his hat silently and in reverence.
He did not speak but watched her silently till she put out a trembling hand, as if to assure herself by touch that it was really he.
This nettled him more than he would confess, and he exerted himself to silently contradict that prophecy.
When she neared me she stood perfectly still, regarding me silently with a deliberate glance.
At half-past five in the morning the American guns recommenced upon Chapultepec; but still Santa Anna clung to the southern gates while Scott was silently preparing for the final assault according to a preconcerted signal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
