For now, the tension was subtle, a vibration, like the inaudible cry of overstressed steel.

He sprang back with a choked, inaudible cry, for the dead thing beneath his hand was stirring.

He looked again, and his face turned suddenly white, and an almost inaudible cry fell from his lips.

My darling, my saint's face was shut up in my heart, and with it a little inaudible cry of love and pain.