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Examples

  • Republicans should keep quiet and not argue at all after 8 years of silence,

    Dems push back hard on GOP stimulus attacks 2009

  • I write this obituary for you, a dying routine, unrelenting and this is how I find you, standing like a wild animal stuck in silence,

    Good bye - my love 2010

  • Here there is quiet, where music turns in upon silence,

    Stalling 2010

  • Richard, rejoiced as after victory, called out the appropriate summons for silence,

    The Talisman 2008

  • Darsie was about to interrupt him, but he pressed his hand affectionately upon his shoulder, and enjoining, or rather imploring, silence,

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • ‘Nonsense, mouse!’ said I. ‘I wish,’ resumed my wife, after a long silence,

    David Copperfield 2007

  • ‘Little Dorrit,’ she said, when she at last broke silence,

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • ‘I thought when you left me this evening, my esteemed acquaintance,’ said Sir John after a pretty long silence,

    Barnaby Rudge 2007

  • ‘Mr Nickleby,’ said the old man, after a short silence,

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • She will muse for hours together; and her silence,

    The Duchess of Malfi 2007

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