1 For a moment everything remained quiet.
2 All of them were usually very quiet nowadays.
3 Meanwhile, it had become very quiet in the next room.
4 The door was slammed shut with the stick, then, finally, all was quiet.
5 It was so quiet all around too, even though there must have been somebody in the flat.
6 He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was quiet, maybe that was a good sign.
7 By now he had also calmed down, and kept quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying.
8 It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half past, more like quarter to seven.
9 And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back to their real and natural state.
10 Soon after dinner, his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings so that she might be able to get a better position later on.