He flushed to the temples but forced himself to maintain silence.

He told the girl, and cautioned her to maintain silence.

In any case, Trirodov saw clearly that it was impossible for him to maintain silence.

After this they shuddered, they humbled themselves, and promised with bitter tears to maintain silence.

The scouts would maintain silence except for occasional low-power microburst transmissions among their own force.

She was entitled, in fact, to maintain silence.

Whatever the reason, Jack Bauer judged it prudent to maintain silence on the subject for now.

The most that could be expected from her was that she should maintain silence on the point.

But he was so gratified that he could not long maintain silence, though Brett was obviously disinclined to talk.

It was a struggle to maintain silence, especially as her aunt went on talking in a still more exasperating manner.

The fourth degree of humility is "to maintain silence until one is asked," to which is opposed "boasting".

And not until the eighteenth was on the point of voting the same way, was he barely induced to maintain silence.

Gesturing for his men to maintain silence, he summoned them to him, indicating that the enemy was hiding in the underbrush.

And as the latter, cornered and unable to maintain silence longer, finally spoke of Father Fouchard's arrest: Why, to be sure!

Yet he knew that it would be best to maintain silence until the detective had had an opportunity to make an investigation.

We must maintain silence".