They are now within sight of the house, its massive front looming large and dark through the mist--still no stir outside, and within the stillness of death itself!
Sleep not; learn that there is a very solemn work of heart which must be done while the stillness of the garden of Gethsemane gives you time.
Gerhardt had been there more than two weeks, and somewhat relieved the stillness that had settled over the house since the second son died in hospital.
The early stillness was sweet, and the feeling of dry, clean linen against his body.
I loved you once, when I had heart to dare, And sought you over many a land and sea; Yet all the while you waited here for me In a sweet stillness shut away from care.
But the need of absolute silence in that dark prison agitated him, and in the ghostly stillness every creak made the place seem haunted.
There was a stillness and gloom about these uninviting, dark houses; a cheerlessness not to be found in the densest woods.
An immense expanse and an eternal stillness of the universe almost unconsciously arises before the mind's eye of the onlooker.
In the lonely stillness of its twilight a horseman was approaching across the barren plain, bearing a huge Chinese lantern in his hand, and singing aloud, as is a Chinaman's custom, to drive off the evil spirits of the night.
The awfulstillness was unbroken, save by the whistling of the wind among the rocks.
Four shots fired from our revolvers in commemoration of Independence Day broke the stillness of the gorges.
And so, in the romantic stillness of the summer night, and the glorious moonlight, fitly faded away the dim outlines of the little island; and Corsica became a beautiful dream of the past.
Not a breath of wind disturbed the utter stillness of the atmosphere, and the moon was rising in golden glory against a deep blue sky.
The stillness without, intensified by the slow, soft fall of the rain on the dead leaves, seemed not detached, but at one with the innerstillness which possessed alike my heart and my brain.
For a moment we stood drawn close together; then turning, with my arm still about her, we went back over the broken pieces of pottery, and ascending the steps, left the pearly afterglow and the fragrant stillness behind us.
In the stillness of the August morning, without song of bird, the sun, shining brilliantly high above the mist, seemed to be the only living thing, to possess the whole and reign above absolute peace.
You seem to stand in my lonely chamber in the light and stillness of a spirit, who has wandered on earth to teach us the love which is felt in Heaven.
Stillness of summer noontide over hill, And deep embowering wood, and rock, and stream, Spread forth her downy pinions, scattering sleep Upon the drooping eyelids of the air.
Napoleon stood pale and immovable as a statue, showing in the very stillness of his air and countenance a deep emotion.
Only one sound the twilight stillness broke upon, Crooning of Indian mother to her babe.
While he mused, the awful stillness of the place Sudden changed--Hark to the note of bugle shrill!
An old log lay beside it, half buried in grass and wild flowers, and here they sat together, in the cool stillness of the dusk, until the darkness came down and hovered round them.
For the next few moments all were quiet, and the stillness was emphasized by the patter of the falling cards.
There was a strange, perplexing stillness in the heavy gloom, until the cloud-ranks parted and a ray of silver light broke through.
It was very hot, for the wind had died away, and deep stillness brooded over the lifeless plain.
Her hands felt wet, something drummed upon her broad straw hat, and the dust leaped up from the grass; then the quick patter ceased, and there was stillness again.
But the dread ghost is ever before me; it follows me up and down the cell, mocks me with the wild laughter of "Crazy Smith" in the stillness of the night, and with the moaning and waking of my neighbor suddenly gone mad.
I could distinctly hear each word, cutting the stillness of the night.
There was about her a terrible stillness and reserve, and in her little face, once so tender, the suggestion of a possible hardness.
He gave a little half-pettish groan, and a stillnesscame over the room.
A stillness seemed to be creeping down from the mountain to the valley.
The fearful preparations of the shades vanished before my eyes and the stillness of lifeless things showed itself to me.
His eyes are opaque and glaucous, like two expectorations, and his stillness is greater than anything one may dream of.
Memories flow again, while the sick woman's breathing is longer drawn, and her stillness becomes more and more inexorable.
I shuddered instinctively, for this answer seemed to imply that the stillness of the grave would be preferable to my destiny.
Over the stillness he heard distinctly the shrill voice of Egbalus, as it cried, "Come forth, thou accepted of Baal!
In this condition of mind, the stillness of the sea was very congenial to Hiram.
Only the slow-timed tramp of the bearers of the royal victim broke the stillness as the cortege passed between the massive gates, which slowly swung upon their hinges and closed again.
Then followed a stillness as of Sheol itself, broken only by the sobbing of the women who approached the image, each bearing her child in her arms.
