hushed

• G'by The nightingale annoyed the owl and was hushed, and the poet rimed sums in a daybook The world waited for them and needed them without knowing it; it would have rewarded them with thrilled attention and wealth and fame. —  The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• The violins were hushed, the groups turned, tended to merge one into another. —  The Long Roll
• Father and Lumber will be here just now Nettie hushed, as she was bade; and as soon as her father's step was heard below, she went to frying cakes with all her might. —  The Carpenter's Daughter
• The children's faces, hushed, and clustered round to hear what they so little understood, were brighter; and it was a happier house for this man's death; The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure Let me see some tenderness connected with a death," said Scrooge; "or that dark chamber, Spirit, which we left just now, will be for ever present to me The Ghost conducted him through several streets familiar to his feet; and as they went along, Scrooge looked here and there to find himself, but nowhere was he to be seen. —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
• Voices were hushed, and the three stood listening spellbound, to the wonderful impassioned song. —  The Daughters of Danaus

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