Noiseless

Examples

• She covered her with noiseless kisses; she murmured love over her, like a cushat fostering its young. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Her great padded feet fell soft and noiseless on the narrow trail. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• His door being shut, she softly opened it and spoke to him, approaching his bed with a noiseless step. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Mr. Bucket, breaking off, has made a noiseless descent upon mademoiselle and laid his heavy hand upon her shoulder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She _did_ listen, and watch, when evening closed; but it was in stillest sort: walking the drawing-room with quite noiseless step. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is a noiseless lock, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He had the negative merit of being absolutely noiseless. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Cautiously I approached the recumbent figure, on noiseless feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Mr Inspector, hastily fortifying himself with another glass, strolled out with a noiseless foot and an unoccupied countenance. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The driver sits on top of this plane upon a seat constructed over the small, noiseless radium engine which propels it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The next moment he passed us, swift and noiseless, with the candle in his hand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Caroline stole after, with noiseless step. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Then until soon, Robert Jordan said and the old man went off, noiseless on his rope-soled shoes, swinging wide through the trees. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It was curious to watch her as she washed and dressed, so small, busy, and noiseless. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The way was paved here, like the terrace overhead, and my footsteps from being noiseless made an echoing sound upon the flags. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The noiseless match, or Lucifer, has, in its turn, driven the Congreve almost out of use, though for practical purposes the latter was as effective, and it was less dangerous. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It was quite natural that when the rubber cushion and pneumatic tires rounded the pleasure of easy and noiseless riding in vehicles that _Motor vehicles_ should be revived and improved. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• She wished it were perfectly dark, perfectly, and noiseless and without motion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A few yards off he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless fashion which was peculiar to him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Wherever Agnes was, some agreeable token of her noiseless presence seemed inseparable from the place. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Everywhere were these noiseless ruddy creatures of fire drifting near the surface of the water, caught at by the rarest, scarce visible reflections. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mr. Vholes, with a noiseless cough--or rather gasp--into one of his black gloves, inclined his head as if he did not wholly dispute even that. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He had stolen on us with his noiseless tread and his book in his hand from the library. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• With a spring as swift and as noiseless as a tiger's I lit beside the guardsman who had moved. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He watched, and as she turned a corner, he took the garden at two noiseless bounds. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is clean, compact, noiseless, free from vibration, heat, dirt and gases, and is under perfect control. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It was done in a moment, in a noiseless, supple, cat-like way, which a little startled me, I own. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Love had crept in, noiseless, terrorless at first, till each felt their life bound up in the other, and at the same time knew that they must part. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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