Meanings of silent observers in English

The way his eyes narrowed as he looked at its face told the silent observers that it was twelve o'clock and after.

Piles of tables and overturned chairs were our only spectators, silent observers to the deadly dance of our crimson and sand Jackets.

Wagner, a naked little Indian boy with a distended stomach, not yet able to speak, was pushed toward me among the silent observers.

Soon a companion would join this whittler, and then another, until the stranger would find himself fairly surrounded by these armed but silent observers.