Stillness

Examples

• I could understand the stillness in the house and the thoughtfulness it expressed on the part of all those who had always been so good to me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, that we were in the country. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• As the smoke cleared, leaving an awful stillness, it passed out on the air, like the soul of the furious woman whose body lay lifeless on the ground. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Ghostly deep as is the stillness of this convent, it is only eleven. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• At last the woods rose; the rookery clustered dark; a loud cawing broke the morning stillness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There were intervals in which she could sit perfectly still, enjoying the outer stillness and the subdued light. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Everybody was hushed into a profound stillness as the individual addressed, replied-- 'Sir! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Behind November came deep winter--clearness, stillness, frost accompanying. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The air was warm with a vaporous warmth, and the stillness was unbroken. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They were soft, blind kisses, perfect in their stillness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Such was the stillness of the evening to Eugene Wrayburn, as he walked by the river with his hands behind him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He lingered on in perfect stillness till he began to fancy that the midnight hour must have struck. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• From within the city neither shout nor cry, nor aught except the casual howling of a dog, broke the noon-day stillness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• When they were silent again, nothing stirred in the stillness but the bubble and the crackle of the flames. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Perfect stillness ensued--not a rustle--not a breath--Guilty. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

Editor: Monica