Hushed

Examples

• I smiled; but I also hushed a groan. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The myriad noises of the jungle seemed far distant and hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds, rising and falling like the surf upon a remote shore. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Everybody was hushed into a profound stillness as the individual addressed, replied-- 'Sir! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She stood, shrinkingly, before him, as if she were afraid to meet his eyes; but her passionate sorrow was quite hushed and mute. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Yes, yes; but they want the thing hushed up, and I understand that the young fellow is going out of the neighborhood. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It hushed the eloquent, struck down the powerful, abolished the beautiful and good. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• In another hour all the dwelling-house, and all the pensionnat, were dark and hushed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• As dawn approached, the setting stars and breaking day dimmed the creation of fancy; the wakened song of birds hushed her whispers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• So, with hushed steps and in silence, we placed the dead on a bier of ice, and then, departing, stood on the rocky platform beside the river springs. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She slept; and quiet prevailed in the Castle, whose inhabitants were hushed to repose. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I thought of our house shut up and hushed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• When we got back to Scotland it was easily hushed up, and nobody asked any questions. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• At length all was hushed, and WILKINS MICAWBER, ESQUIRE, presented himself to return thanks. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Then there was a weeping of women, then waiting, then hushed exclamations, then a strange gasping sound, then a painful stillness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If I had power, I would lap you in the most placid slumber--quite deep and hushed, without a dream. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She was busy, the end of the day was here, the work went on as a peaceful tide that is at flood, hushed to retire. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His manner was determined; and the matter was growing rather too serious to be hushed up. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• No: stillness returned: each murmur and movement ceased gradually, and in about an hour Thornfield Hall was again as hushed as a desert. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The household came to bed, the night-light was lit, the dormitory hushed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But I got Johnson to be quiet, and I hushed the matter up. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The whole hushed and brooding room seemed to be waiting silently with Archer. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Even our soldiers were awed to silence; the music paused; the clang of arms was hushed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I am sure it will be all hushed up, and nothing proved but Rushworth's folly. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• By the time they reached the churchyard the bells were hushed; the multitudes were gathered into the church. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There was a stillness in his motion that hushed the activities of her heart. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But all was profoundly hushed in the noonday stillness of a house, where an invalid catches the unrefreshing sleep that is denied to the night-hours. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• As he spoke, every sound was hushed, every thought suspended by intense attention. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And he is out there, she said, in an awe-hushed whisper. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I suppose the funds are falling, whispered Miss Wirt; and so, trembling and in silence, this hushed female company followed their dark leader. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• When he had landed a month ago, the noisy populace had been hushed by sorrow and fear; but this was a festival day to all. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Edited by Jacqueline