That silenced Eleanor's hysteria quicker than anything else, and in another moment she was gone after her friend, leaving Anne to watch the still unconscious girl on the grass.
The scorn in Mr. Dalken's tone silencedthe policeman.
The storm of Moslem invasion that swept so suddenly over the peninsula, silenced for a time the faint voice of the Muse, and drove the sons of learning from their cells.
The Moors were silenced by this reply, and prepared with heavy hearts to fulfill the capitulation.
But it was not enough for Mahomet to have silenced disaffection.
But the warships soon got to work andsilenced the enemy's guns.
He had the range of all their trenches, and when he saw a sniper's "posey" he blazed away till he silenced the enemy.
But moat and mound, cannon and cavern, were at length overleapt, silenced and exhausted.
Our own batteries promptly replied and silenced the guns in front, but they opened again further to the right with such a rake upon our infantry as to make it prudent to withdraw them to the cover of the ground.
Her sister silenced her by a look, which made that well-intentioned woman tremble.
Margaret for a time was absolutely silenced by the news; it fell upon her like a stone.
This silenced Miss Jean, whose mind was dazzled by her sister's greater purposes and larger grasp.
Lewis, who had been in extremely high spirits after his success at the party, had suddenly fallen into a blank of embarrassment and perplexity, which silenced him altogether.
He was quite hushed and silenced in his simple mind by the discovery he had made.
The Lord Montagu had not been inattentive to this dialogue, and he now said, in a loud tone that silenced the crowd, "Young Badgeman, thy gallantry pleases me no less than thy skill.
Despite the gravity of the emergence, a laugh burst forth, and was at once silenced at this frank avowal.
Assisted by Captain Cockburn, in the Meleager, he drove them under a battery, pursued them, silenced the batteries, and captured the whole.
Miss Charteris, beginning to laugh; but Phoebe's grave straightforward eyes met her with such a look, as absolutely silenced her merriment into a mere mutter of 'What a little chit it is!
He silenced her summarily, and set out for his preparations.
Lucilla's triumph was complete; Honor's scruples were silenced by the admiring enjoyment, and Phoebe was in a state of rapture.
The rest were either dismounted orsilenced by the musketry from the trenches.
Bigot denied everything till silenced point by point with papers bearing his own signature.
When Wolfe had silenced the Island Battery, a new and imminent danger threatened Louisbourg.
Rough voices silenced her, and then the inmates burst out, but were instantly killed.
On the twenty-sixth the last cannon was silenced in front of the town, and the English batteries had made a breach which seemed practicable for assault.
The success of Bradstreet silencedfor a time the enemies of Shirley.
The swivels brought back from the camp at Gist's farm were mounted on the rampart; but the gunners were so ill protected that the pieces were almost silenced by the French musketry.
Britz, however, who had caught every fleeting emotion that passed across the witness's countenance, was not prepared to see Beard silenced through intimidation.
He silenced the clamour of his fervid imagination, and concentrated his thoughts on his determination not to lose courage.
As the juror opened his mouth to reply, the coroner silenced him with a gesture.
The torture can certainly be very great, especially the apprehension, but questions coming from the distance can be silenced by acceptation of what is close.
He wrapped his plaid around him, and said no more; and I was not a little pleased at having silenced him by my resolute behaviour.
The girl at the same time presenting the Napoleon, and pointing to the dog, I went forward and took the Napoleon from her, at which she immediately silenced the enormous brute, and laughing at us, hastened away.
I then gave a very civil message, and the captain said no more: the very name of a great man always silenced him.
Thus, in a word, I established a social position which came in aid of my professional repute, and silenced much of that envy which usually embitters and sometimes impedes success.
Ah," thought I, as I sprang lightly up the ascent to the Hill, "how the tattlers will be silencedby a word from her imperial lips!
Fanny was doubly silenced here; though when the moment was passed, could regret that she had not forced herself into the acknowledged comprehension of one half of his meaning, and encouraged him to say something more of his sister and Edmund.
The Harvilles silenced all scruples; and, as much as they could, all gratitude.
It was deadly hot, and most of the people saddened and silencedin the heat.
The man fed on without noticing them, except now and then to utter a growl that silenced the whispering and giggling for a moment.
She seemed unable to answer, and he perceived that he had silenced her to his own, disadvantage.
That was not the first time General Triscoe had silenced question of his opinions with the argument he had used upon Eltwin, though he was seldom able to use it so aptly.
The shower passed as quickly as it had gathered, and the band which it had silenced for a moment burst forth again in the music which fills the Carlsbad day from dawn till dusk.
Two of my faithful Cagliaritans slept all night in the little tent, to guard it and my precious instruments; and the sea, which was rather rough, silenced my Frenchmen.
The fact that the minister and his family were going staggered some of the more particular members a little, but Mr. Beecham took high ground on the subject and silenced the flock.
Phoebe had more brains than both of her interlocutors put together, and half-a-dozen more added on; but she was put down and silenced by the talk.
Phoebe was silenced altogether when this had happened.
The steward bowed and retired, after having been silenced in a second attempt to explain the motives on which he acted.
I am not hungry," began Fico, but Von Barwig silenced him with a look.
Is it kind to----" Von Barwig silenced him with a look.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silenced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
