silentness

Frost at Midnight (9-10); the "moonlight steeped in silentness" in the Mariner's return to an alien home harbor (The Rime of the Ancyent

Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound 2008

Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison (39), or the gothic turns: that "strange/And extreme silentness" that vexes meditation and nearly freezes the meter in

Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound 2008

It was the striking of the church clock, distinct in the still atmosphere as if it had come from the tower hard by, which, wrapt in its solitary silentness, gave out no such sounds of life.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

The silentness of death succeeded, interrupted only by the long, loud breathing of P----, and the low, melancholy howl of wolves in the mountains.

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

The silentness jest natcherally swamps everything after a while, and then all them queer little noises you never hear in the daytime comes popping and poking through the silentness, or kind o 'scratching their way through it sometimes, and makes it kind o' feel more silent than ever.

Danny's Own Story 1912

And having said this with a beaming face, he made a little salaam and slipped through the skylight with an agile silentness of movement which showed Becky how easily he had done it before.

A Little Princess 1905

Nor did we give expression to a thought which strongly oppressed me, and which I once or twice fancied I could detect in John likewise – how very like this night seemed to the night when Mr. March died; the same silentness in the house – the same windy whirl without – the same blaze of the woodfire on the same kitchen-ceiling.

John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

And having said this with a beaming face, he made a little salaam and slipped through the skylight with an agile silentness of movement which showed Becky how easily he had done it before.

A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

They appeared little larger than pigeons, and made their tiny movements with a soft, spirit-like silentness.

Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884

It was the striking of the church clock, distinct in the still atmosphere as if it had come from the tower hard by, which, wrapt in its solitary silentness, gave out no such sounds of life.

A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884