The astounded judge turned amid tense silence in fury on the prisoner.

Not a word or sound broke the tense silence about the operating-table.

There was a tense silence while they waited for Langham to speak.

Her head sank on her breast and a brief, tense silence ensued.

There followed a tense silence-Aloysiuslaid his hand on her bent head-

There was a long and tense silence, full of strangeness to Paul.

There followed a somewhat tense silence before he said, Well, go on!

They sat in tense silence, listening to the sick woman's shallow breaths.

Presently a cart rattled past in the street below, rasping the tense silence.

As he did so tense silence reigned in the little group.

He waited in the tense silence, straining every nerve to hear.

They listened in a tense silence, which broke now and then into cheers.

I shuffled my feet, and again there fell the tense silence.

A sigh of indrawn breaths ran round the circle, and then tense silence.

Veronica can't think of any way to break the tense silence that follows.

There was a tense silence for a few seconds, then old Hyams said: