Lack of audible sound or presence of sounds of very low intensity.
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She turned abruptly away, and stood at a distance in gloomy muteness.
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Not the muteness of the one who'd read and then suddenly stopped.
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But before the singular muteness of this family sounds would not come.
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Thy muteness even is like to strangle me, thou abysmal mute one!
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After a long while I turned around in the muteness of my despair.
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An hour passed; the renegade smoked in silence; the chiefs did likewise.
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Hermanric replied in the negative; and they then proceeded in perfect silence.
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There was a dead silence; and the foreman gave in the verdict:
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He ceased; and his words hung in the silence of the room.
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It was midnight; a vast crowd waited in silence in Piazza Castello.
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The different thing in the affair was the silence of the victim.
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The company rose, drank the toast in serious silence; then Goodman said:
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To accuse yourself is the natural thing; silence is the unnatural thing.
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As the three sat in silence, the gloom in the chasm thickened.
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Around him was profound silence; the music in the Vauxhall was over.
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A piercing chill grew in the dead air; the silence was terrifying.
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The sunlight bathed the scene; nursed it in a soft, warm silence.
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Dinner began in silence; the women facing one another, and the men.
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Heavy green-black gas fumes swirled in it; darkness and silence closed down.
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The colonel sat in wretched silence a few moments; then he arose:
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Betty looked him straight in the eye in silence and slowly asked:
