Silently

Examples

• They said little more; but were company to one another in silently pursuing the same subjects, and did not part until midnight. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Tom silently resumed his task; but the woman, before at the last point of exhaustion, fainted. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Tears rolled silently down Rosamond's cheeks; she just pressed her handkerchief against them, and stood looking at the large vase on the mantel-piece. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Eustacia might possibly decline to use her pen--it was rather her way to work silently--and surprise him by appearing at his door. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• So, I walked a little further with Biddy, looking silently at her downcast eyes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The gentleman in the bag wig laid bundles of papers on his lordship's table, and his lordship silently selected one and turned over the leaves. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Lorry came silently forward, leaving the daughter by the door. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He put his arm round Letty's neck silently, and led her into the kitchen without his usual jokes and caresses. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I had silently feared St. John till now, because I had not understood him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Well, said Haley, after they had both silently picked their nuts for a season, what do you say? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But in default of a listener, she had to brood over the change in her life silently as heretofore. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She could say nothing more, and walked away silently to her room. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• After he had left them they went silently below, each wrapped in gloomy forebodings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The singing again commenced, and rang through the high-roofed rooms, while we silently ascended the stair-case. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Nor did I look towards Wemmick until I had finished all I had to tell, and had been for some time silently meeting Mr. Jaggers's look. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The woman came on, slowly and silently came on. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Slowly and silently we went to meet Adrian, whom we heard approaching. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Instantly, silently, before my eyes, it vanished; so did the curtain and alcove: all that end of the garret became black as night. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We walked silently, side by side, for a minute or two, and then he asked me what had become of Sergeant Cuff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In spite of Rosamond's self-control a tear fell silently and rolled over her lips. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I fidgeted silently in my place on the sand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• How could he go silently away from Middlemarch as if he were retreating before a just condemnation? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Yorke, if Mary had loved you silently yet faithfully, chastely yet fervently, as you would wish your wife to love, would you have left her? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Its moving principle flows more silently than a summer’s zephyr, and yet it rises at times to an angry and deadly crash in the lightning stroke. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Tarzan came quietly above the unsuspecting beast and silently stalked him until he came into a little patch of moonlight. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Swiftly and silently he made his way along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of the woods to the Boscombe Pool. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was long after dark ere they reached the cabin, and a sad and grief-stricken party it was that sat silently within the little structure. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Their eyes, and the eyes of all the rest, were fixed silently and expectantly on my face. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He came silently and the old man did not see him until he was there. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Silently he climbed to a great height until he found a point where he could look through a leafy opening upon the scene beneath him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Typist: Mason