1 She stood silent, her hands lying cold and relaxed in his.
2 She stood silent a moment, drooping before him like a broken branch.
3 She was silent, but he felt a slight tremor in the shoulder against his.
4 Zenobia's fault-finding was of the silent kind, but not the less penetrating for that.
5 Mrs. Hale paused a moment, and I remained silent, plunged in the vision of what her words evoked.
6 But hitherto the emotion had remained in him as a silent ache, veiling with sadness the beauty that evoked it.
7 She stood aside, smiling silently, while he entered, and then moved away from him with something soft and flowing in her gait.
8 With every yard of the way some spot where they had stood, and laughed together or been silent, clutched at Ethan and dragged him back.
9 As his lips rested on it he felt it glide slowly from beneath them, and saw that Mattie had risen and was silently rolling up her work.
10 She sat silent, her hands clasped on her work, and it seemed to him that a warm current flowed toward him along the strip of stuff that still lay unrolled between them.
11 She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding.
12 He even crept down on Saturday nights to scrub the kitchen floor after the women had gone to bed; and Zeena, one day, had surprised him at the churn and had turned away silently, with one of her queer looks.
13 The sweetness of the picture, and the relief of knowing that his fears of "trouble" with Zeena were unfounded, sent up his spirits with a rush, and he, who was usually so silent, whistled and sang aloud as he drove through the snowy fields.
14 And there were other sensations, less definable but more exquisite, which drew them together with a shock of silent joy: the cold red of sunset behind winter hills, the flight of cloud-flocks over slopes of golden stubble, or the intensely blue shadows of hemlocks on sunlit snow.