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Examples
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Republicans should keep quiet and not argue at all after 8 years of silence,
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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
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Here there is quiet, where music turns in upon silence,
Stalling 2010
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Richard, rejoiced as after victory, called out the appropriate summons for silence,
The Talisman 2008
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Darsie was about to interrupt him, but he pressed his hand affectionately upon his shoulder, and enjoining, or rather imploring, silence,
Redgauntlet 2008
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‘Nonsense, mouse!’ said I. ‘I wish,’ resumed my wife, after a long silence,
David Copperfield 2007
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‘Little Dorrit,’ she said, when she at last broke silence,
Little Dorrit 2007
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‘I thought when you left me this evening, my esteemed acquaintance,’ said Sir John after a pretty long silence,
Barnaby Rudge 2007
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‘Mr Nickleby,’ said the old man, after a short silence,
Nicholas Nickleby 2007
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She will muse for hours together; and her silence,
The Duchess of Malfi 2007
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