It was quiet, the shipboard noises muffled, perhaps by their slow progress.

It was impossible, but here even the motion seemed less, the shipboard noises subdued.

He hesitated, the muffled shipboard noises and occasional shadowy movements very stark and real.

There was silence but for the sea and shipboard noises, and even those seemed muted.

Varlo said nothing and nobody moved, so that the sea and shipboard noises intruded like some wild fanfare.

Even the shipboard noises seemed muted, so that the scrape of Usher's pen seemed loud in the stillness.