stilly

For suddenly he became conscious that it was there, behind the trees somewhere lurking, a curious kind of stilly glimmer creeping about the air, along the ground, in and out of the tree-stems.

A Silent Wooing 2004

Nowhere does the night seem more "stilly," or the sense of seclusion more profound, than in the middle of the broad bay on a midsummer night before or after the theatre-goers have crossed.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

There is no night in the "stilly" sense at a mine.

A Touch of Sun and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

Barack Obama is different, not a political practitioner, really, but something else, and not a warm-blooded animal but a cool, chill character, a fish who sits deep in the tank and stares, stilly, at the other fish.

Obama and the Debt Crisis Peggy Noonan 2011

He looks down the hall at the remaining plastic sheet hanging stilly in the dry air.

Windows Jeff Geiger 2011

Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs and snug crevices among the rocks, -- big, noisy, harmless fellows, that had procreated the year gone, lain frozen through the winter, and were now rejuvenated to buzz through swift senility to second death.

CHAPTER 23 2010

Also, I'm told -- and I'm really in no position to know how true this is -- that African-Americans are stilly fairly rare in the elite forces like First Recon, Delta, and the SEALS, and that programs like THE UNIT tend to exagerate their percentage I seem to recall one writer claiming that there are actually more Asian-Americans in Delta and the SEALS than there are African-Americans.

Reviews Too Late: Generation Kill Walter Jon Williams 2009

Both of the federal party committees are stilly carrying debt from the 2006 election cycle -- $5 million for the DCCC, $6 million for the DSCC.

Jeff Nussbaum: Dedicate a Fifth to the Future: One Democrat's Plea for the Party 2008

GB's so stilly thinking no one would notice his hand in scrapping the 10p tax rate for the poorest part of our community.

Brown's 'got it now' Glyn Davies 2008

The interest becomes intense; the wrongful heir draws his sword, and rushes on the rightful heir; a blue smoke is seen, a gong is heard, and a tall white figure (who has been all this time, behind the arm – chair, covered over with a table – cloth), slowly rises to the tune of ‘Oft in the stilly night.’

Sketches by Boz 2007