1 Silence followed, profound silence.
2 Our silence lasted for five minutes.
3 "It makes no difference," she said suddenly, after a brief silence.
4 In the next room two gloomy, angry-looking persons were eating their dinners in silence at two different tables.
5 If I held out and pretended not to notice these stares, he would, still in silence, proceed to further tortures.
6 In that case, of course, people are not spiteful in silence, but moan; but they are not candid moans, they are malignant moans, and the malignancy is the whole point.
7 from there altogether, she began, to break the silence in some way, but, poor girl, that was just what she ought not to have spoken about at such a stupid moment to a man so stupid as I was.
8 I recalled, too, that during those two hours I had not said a single word to this creature, and had, in fact, considered it utterly superfluous; in fact, the silence had for some reason gratified me.