1 The wordy silence troubled her.
2 He was unconscious of the silence.
3 The silence, for he made no other observation, became intolerable to her.
4 "I am afraid I must be going," exclaimed Lady Henry, breaking an awkward silence with her silly sudden laugh.
5 After two or three minutes of terrible silence, Dorian turned round and came and stood behind him, putting his hand upon his shoulder.
6 Lady Narborough kept scolding him for what she called "an insult to poor Adolphe, who invented the menu specially for you," and now and then Lord Henry looked across at him, wondering at his silence and abstracted manner.
7 The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.
8 After a strained moment of silence, he leaned across and said, very quietly, but watching the effect of each word upon the face of him he had sent for, "Alan, in a locked room at the top of this house, a room to which nobody but myself has access, a dead man is seated at a table."