His natural taciturnity was in his favour; nothing could be more calculated to give people, especially people with property (Soames had no other clients), the impression that he was a safe man.
He could not but feel that in similar circumstances he himself would have been tempted to enlarge his replies, but his instinct told him that this taciturnity was the very thing.
It was his habit to feel less when he talked more; but no one could have fallen into a more perfect taciturnity than he when he saw Kirsteen coming up those narrow stairs.
And, rather than go direct to Soames himself, of whose taciturnity he was afraid, he took his umbrella and went round to Timothy's.
But thetaciturnity of Mr Verloc had been lying heavily upon her for a good many days.
Only that day Mr Verloc’s taciturnity was so obviously thoughtful that the two women were impressed by it.
One can no longer wonder at the taciturnity of the men who dwell here; nor does one fail to grasp the eminent suitability to the country of its Indian name--the Silent Places.
A growing taciturnity marked his manner, and often a willful crudeness of phrase and speech, which annoyed her almost to the point of reproof.
She had thought that she knew John Marquis to the last shred of his character, but death seemed to have laid a fineness she had never known over the stubbornness and taciturnity of the face.
SIR, 'We are here wonderfully pleased with the Opening of your Mouth, and very frequently open ours in Approbation of your Design; especially since we find you are resolved to preserve your Taciturnity as to all Party Matters.
My Obscurity and Taciturnity leave me at Liberty, without Scandal, to dine, if I think fit, at a common Ordinary, in the meanest as well as the most sumptuous House of Entertainment.
There had been a gentle emphasis on the last two words which could scarcely be misunderstood, and as the sailor ruminated over them, his taciturnity showed renewed signs of failing before the rising tide of his wrath.
Commandant Rattier flung aside his taciturnity with a suddenly impulsive oath.
For a sailor, people were apt to consider him taciturn--at first; but they soon discovered that his was a taciturnity which spoke.
His greeting, when contrasted with his comparative taciturnity at dinner the night before, was almost effusive--and a little pathetic.
The shyness he had used with the Colonel, and the taciturnity practised on his fellow-clerks, he slipped off like coat and waistcoat for the battle.
On the subject of my uncle, the old coachman's taciturnity gave way to torrents of reproach.
I tried every method short of absolute rudeness to change the subject, and went from silence to taciturnity and back again to silence.
At first both were silent, for Lord Ulswater used the ordinary privilege of a lover and was absent and absorbed, and his companion was never the first to break a taciturnity natural to his habits.
A little, unknown man, who had been sitting at the bar for the last two hours sipping brandy and water, and who from his extreme taciturnity and quiet had been scarcely observed, now rose.
He was a good-natured worthy man; but chiefly remarkable for his great taciturnity at table, though his mouth was never shut at it.
What between her sudden taciturnity and Catherine's pale silence, the girls' sense of expectancy was roused to its highest pitch.
If so, it was Greek meeting Greek, for with all his taciturnity the vicar of Shanmoor was well able to defend himself.
He was short and wiry, like Steve, a merry enough fellow, but given to taciturnity and silence, as was customary with scouts.
It was when they had eaten their supper, and pipes were going, that the natural silence and taciturnity of the scout was broken before the warmth of the camp fire.
Opposition, or even abuse, merely served as a spur to his volubility, but taciturnity disconcerted him.
One learns taciturnitybest among people who have none, and loquacity among the taciturn.
She called up a faint symptom of a smile, in response to his adieux, and relapsed into taciturnity and the shadow of her screen, when he had departed.
Her unwonted taciturnity annoyed and puzzled him; he knew that beneath the calm surface some strong undercurrent rolled swiftly, and he racked his brain to discover what had rendered her so reserved.
As he became more and more absorbed in these pursuits his reserve and taciturnity increased.
His replies were perfectly ingenuous, evincing nothing of the natural taciturnity and shyness of the Indian mind.
There was a strangetaciturnity about these three lads.
Fellows wondered why they had not noticed his strange ways, his taciturnity and silence.
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