near-silent

• “For sustenance of the soul, the nearby thousand-year-old Abbey of Bassac +33 5 4581 9422, abbayebassac.com has a tangible spirituality and visitors are welcome to stroll in the near-silent gardens.”

  The Guardian: Classic France: the insiders' guide

• “He admits a return to his "boyhood fascinations" in telling the story of places like Fort Ticonderoga, the romance of which clearly continues to entrance him, where "one can still hear the echoes of musket and cannon shot, the shouts of command, the flap of canvas and creaking of oars, and even—with some effort—the near-silent padding of moccasin-shod feet.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Great Warpath

• “They exuded a near-silent excitement, the sort which Bo had witnessed two days earlier, when his mother passed in her sleep.”

  Fictionaut: Puncture

• “Now, with the advent of near-silent electric and hybrid vehicles, the industry is shifting into reverse.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Putting the Noise Back Into Whisper-Quiet Vehicles

• “OTOH, if you had some sort of small, near-silent, difficult to see surveillance UAV, this would be quite different, as might ubiquitous surveillance video cameras over a large part of an urban environment.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Times Square bombing — where were the cameras?

• “He could hear the near-silent "swish - swish" of a pendulum slicing through air.”

  Fictionaut: Stalling

• “I held her tight while she shook with near-silent sobs, the grief deep and terrible.”

  Fictionaut: They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff

• “Talk about killing two birds with one stone -- in addition to McCain's avoiding his debate in the face of falling poll numbers, after Palin's day of near-silent photo-ops at the U.N., attempting to also give Palin more time to prepare.”

  Palin Suggests Americans Looking Only To McCain For Leadership On Financial Crisis

• “She has transformed from a near-silent political wife to arguably the most admired and powerful woman in Britain – and a truly modern public figure.”

  Friday morning and oh what the hell is going on NOW?

• “She has transformed from a near-silent political wife to arguably the most admired and powerful woman in Britain…”

  Sarah Brown must be stopped or I will be ill

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