For one breath there was an appalling silence on the mountainside.

There was an appalling silence, a silence more dreadful than the noise, and

With this exception an appalling silence hung over the room.

An appalling silence fell upon the shabby, music-littered room, broken only by Constance's sobs.

The appalling silence that ensued might have hung above a battle-field of slain and wounded.

Such rest, such appalling silence, we never knew before.

An appalling silence filled my head, an arctic calm.

An appalling silence had fallen upon the island.

An appalling silence descended upon the whole house.

An appalling silence rested on plains and mountains.

There was an appalling silence to my appeal.

Then comes an appalling silence, a profound darkness.

Now someone from the depths of the shadow and the appalling silence read something; the verdict, doubtless.

They walked on in an appalling silence to the corner of the Square and the High Street.

In five months, the good people can end both his hateful words and their own appalling silence.

In the wonder of it he stood silent, and the moment was weighted with an appalling silence.