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Example sentences for "stilly"

Lexicographically close words:
stiller; stillest; stilling; stillness; stills; stilo; stilt; stilted; stilts; stilus
  1. At any rate she herself had this curious stilly state of painless but rather sickening knowledge.

  2. She had been doing too much of the work herself instead of lying at her ease and stilly willing it to be done.

  3. Thus in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.

  4. The stilly murmur of the far-off Sea Tells us of Silence!

  5. Thus in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.

  6. Thus, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.

  7. The stilly woods Grow dark and deep and gloom mysteriously.

  8. Thus in his going he came to the rustic bridge above the sleepy pool and paused there awhile to stare down into the stilly waters upon whose placid surface the moon seemed to float in glory.

  9. My lady flushed, averted her head and walked on in a dignified silence until they reached the rustic bridge; here she paused to look down into the stilly pool.

  10. And so to Oft in the Stilly Night again.

  11. For, while her dream ever evaded her, and yet never ceased to call her with such a voice as he who reads on a magic page of the calling of elves hears stilly in his brain, yet somehow behind the seduction was another and a sterner voice.

  12. When Sir Lionel saw him do thus, he thought to assay him, and made him ready, and stilly and privily he took his horse, and thought not for to awake Sir Launcelot.

  13. And then when he saw Sir Beaumains fast asleep, he came stilly stalking behind the dwarf, and plucked him fast under his arm, and so he rode away with him as fast as ever he might unto his own castle.

  14. One night of glamour, under a moon That seemed to steep the air with gold, They two sat stilly and watcht the sea Tremulously heaving over a path Of light like a river of molten gold.

  15. Under the stilly boughs and the black gauze of dusk the street was meshed in silence.

  16. She waded down stilly cloisters between burnt stump and icy oak, through drifts marked with a million hieroglyphics of rabbit and mouse and bird.

  17. With oars apeak, and paddles down, the sheets of their sails adrift, the three boats now stilly floated, awaiting Moby Dick's reappearance.

  18. Or shall the years Push me, with soft and inoffensive pace, Into the stilly twilight of my age?

  19. So many tears are not often shed as fell in that silent while,--dew-stilly they dropped and quickened; but still not all had wept.

  20. Very soft, fluffy plumage muffles their flight so that they can drop upon a meadow mouse creeping through the grass in the stilly night before this wee, {226} timorous beastie suspects there is a foe abroad.

  21. Oft in the stilly night," when the moonlight sheds a silvery radiance about every sleeping creature, the mockingbird sings to his mate such delicious music as only the European nightingale can rival.

  22. From our stilly trance we rose, Thrilled with all the old regret-- The grieving that God knows.

  23. On the morowe afti[rh] the daye Thay were armede ful ryghte, 2544 Thai rode fortħ stilly in here way, they sally out.

  24. By a Chemney he wente inne; Fulle stilly there he soughte it.

  25. Beneath his glazed eyes I sway Three leaves upon one stilly spray: He blenches.

  26. Amid a stilly fig-tree, Hidden from sun and sight, A nightingale sang over The songs that rejoice the night.

  27. Some sat talking in low and whispering voices, as if unwilling, even by a sound, to break the stilly calm.

  28. I find myself heaving with a hitherto unsuspected affection for the Stilly Islanders.

  29. White as a lily, Light as a feather, Hosts so stilly Are falling together.

  30. Drifting about with the winds at play, Hiding in hollows along the way, White as a lily, Light as a feather, Coming so stilly In cold winter weather.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stilly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    calm; cloistered; cool; dwindling; halcyon; hush; hushed; impassive; inaudible; isolated; moldering; noiseless; pacific; peaceable; peaceful; peacefully; placid; placidly; quiescent; quiet; quietly; reposeful; reposing; restful; secluded; sequestered; sheltered; silent; smooth; smoothly; soundless; still; stolid; subsiding; tranquil; undisturbed; unmoved; unperturbed; unruffled; untroubled; unuttered; unvoiced; waning