A hush descends as the band announces the imminent entry of the first bull. |
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The teacher looked at what they were looking and laughing at and told them to hush up so he could start class. |
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He started rocking back and forth slightly, trying to get me to hush and calm down. |
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Audience participation was animated to the point that the quizmaster had to hush the audience during the tie to pre-empt prompts. |
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She kept asking what was wrong, but her mother merely told her to hush up, and run faster. |
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He looked to me and placed a finger over his lips, telling me to hush up and act like he wasn't there. |
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He's been owed a trophy for years, and if he gets one, maybe he can finally hush up about how comic actors are perennially overlooked. |
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The rest of us were told to hush up with our petty concerns about foreign entanglements, airport privatization, and what have you. |
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Not knowing what else to do, the sites paid up the hush money for a license, and were allowed back online. |
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I always think it's funny to watch proggie leaders demonize companies until they start paying said proggie leaders hush money consulting fees. |
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To hush up the secret in her married mother's middle-class family, she was put up for adoption. |
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At the same time a complete hush fell, the birds stopped singing, cows and sheep became quiet and all of us, hundreds of individuals fell silent. |
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A hush spread over the crowd of friends, fans, admirers, and collectors who had gathered that evening. |
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It was almost romantic here, with only bits of bird song and twigs crunching underfoot to break the hush. |
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When the lights go down, the silence is deep and immediate, a reverential hush. |
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Friday's encounters had been played out in front of banks of empty seats and a deathly hush. |
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A nervous hush descended on the famous patch of turf as the sisters went through their warm-up routine. |
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A conspiratorial hush proceeds to cosh the masses, precipitating a muffled ripple of applause as the Mayor and his entourage take to the stand. |
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When the lights dimmed shortly before 8 p.m., and the music rose, a hush descended upon the audience. |
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The man waved his hand, ordering for silence and an immediate hush covered the room. |
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Silence descended on a village school when pupils held a sponsored hush for charity. |
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A hush settled over the crowd and she spoke into rapt silence, no longer being viewed as the one on trial. |
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But because prostitution is illegal, brothel owners pays no taxes, instead giving regular bribes and hush money to corrupt policemen. |
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Was this just charity, or was it payment for services rendered or some kind of hush money? |
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That night, when it was quiet, and all that could be heard was the slight hush of a breeze ruffling the trees' leaves. |
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The hush of the garden after the neighbor's engine died away almost took our breath away. |
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However, there are requests for money to meet expenses related to hush money, fees, taxes and assorted payments to sundry individuals. |
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Word got back to Detroit, and the car company offered the woman a wad of hush money. |
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Johnny cake, corn pones, hoe cakes, hush puppies, and hawg'n'hominy are just a few examples. |
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The telecon was so hush hush that not a word was actually spoken while it was in progress, for fear of, what else, leaks. |
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The hush swept across the great room as those near the entrance heard the first tramp of heavy feet. |
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His voice is a reedy hush, like a jet of water issuing from a punctured pipe. |
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In the southern states catfish fillets are usually dredged in cornmeal and fried, to be served with hush puppy and coleslaw. |
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They have the smoothness of a beignet, the heft of a hush puppy, and they're spiced with cayenne pepper and little shreds of Italian ham. |
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Breaking open a hush puppy, the boy seemed embarrassed yet proud of his grandfather's praise. |
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Pinstriped oxford shirt, brown hush puppies and wire frame glasses adorned this man who also looked in his mid thirties. |
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This credo of a particular order of comparative literature is like the hush of the schoolmarm enforcing a designed consensus at lesson's end. |
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Perish the thought that the cash flow might tacitly function as hush money. |
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I left the cobbler alone after three bites and ate a handful of hush puppies for dessert. |
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Allegations his lawyers had offered hush money to a prosecution witness were never substantiated. |
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Knowing he was about to appear, an expectant hush fell over the huge crowd around the green. |
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To this day, a hush invariably descends at noisome mushairas when she stands up to recite her poetry. |
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Moving forward to hush the horse, Garrett was surprised to hear an answering neigh. |
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His beautiful musical tapestries command a hush and even new songs are aired as he carefully balances his songbook on his knee. |
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The two men are paid compensation and hush money by the mine owners over the deaths. |
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A hush fell over the room as, silver salvers held high, they piped in the haggis. |
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I slowly pulled away, then start to apologize but she placed her finger on my lips to hush me. |
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When our star takes the stage, he's greeted by an expectant hush. |
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An anticipatory hush settled over the Columbia auditorium, bulbs flashing and cameras clicking. |
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Fried catfish, French-fried potatoes, hush puppies, coleslaw, all in the center of the table. |
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They slowed, and the rushing sound gave way to a hush that made the crystalline tranquillity complete. |
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The numbers follow with rhythmical regularity, the hush intensifying. |
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Plush but tidy brown hush puppies softened the girl's tread, and she walked with a slight shuffle, back hunched a bit, as if she were trying to hide from the world. |
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And they must just accept that after 20 years of trying to hush us and badmouth us. |
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My mother took me to a live radio show in downtown Houston, and we had to be all hush as the skits were conducted. |
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In what threatened to be a hush, one of the visitors offered some unbidden news. |
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Plumbers, hush money, enemies list, smoking-gun tape, the whole nine yards. |
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The employee described it as a kind of hush money, making staffers disinclined to question dubious company practices. |
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In spite of this, Butch was craving some fries and a hush puppy, but he declined. |
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It has been five decades since the Department of Science and Industrial Research announced the invention of a new type of ball valve which would hush the flush. |
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Both the question and the response caused a momentary hush in the crowd. |
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All I could hear in the hush was the birds tweeting until, suddenly ahead of me, a lithe lad in Lycra darted over a crossroads like a rabbit scuttling for cover. |
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We had lunch in our hotel, and they served Southern standards, butter beans, potatoes, fried chicken, hush puppies and one thing I thought was stuffing. |
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You may not hush people or impinge their enjoyment in any manner. |
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But while leading figures in other sports often speak out on matters that affect their livelihoods, footballers hush up or are airbrushed into meaningless platitudes. |
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My thought now is that it was all a very long time ago, in a much more rigid social climate than today, and there is not much sense in trying to hush it up any more. |
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A complete hush enveloped the Great Hall of St. James' Palace. |
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By this point, a hush had fallen over the standing-room only bus crowd, mostly composed of giggling school kids and sullen working poor on their way to the salt mines. |
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A palpable hush descended on the hundreds of spectators as they waited for the Bentley to stop and for the Queen to emerge to begin her walkabout. |
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Sara emerged at the top of the stairs and a hush fell over the room. |
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A hush descended on the crowd as the village chief began to speak. |
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I rely of course on their innate decency to not tell of the horrid things they have seen, or hopefully ask me for hush money before publicising the truth. |
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Quenelles are more appropriate to a fine-dining dinner plate than the classic spoon-dropped hush puppy, but the winning recipe was too moist to hold a quenelle shape. |
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The usual hustle and bustle had been replaced by an eerie hush. |
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A sense of unease and foreboding quickly descended on the crowded chamber, followed by a hush minutes later when confirmation came through of what had happened. |
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As I reached the front of the crowd a haunting hush fell over them. |
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Every time she spoke, her voice sounded so loud against the deathly hush. |
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Silence fell, a hush descended, streets emptied and a nation paused, huddled around their televisions and radiograms. |
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The scandal was even greater when it was announced that hush money had been paid to keep the faulty products unannounced. |
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Even though they were fitted with hush kits, the overnight freighters were the subject of repeated noise complaints. |
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Oh, could I see as then That figure of defiance, as he stood, Isled in a hush, in all his goodlihood, Superb, majestical, a man of men! |
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The word mushroom preserves a hush sibilant in mousseron not recorded in French orthography, as does cushion for coussin. |
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She was offered the hush money just before she was supposed to confirm a report about the golfer's adulter y at a press conference in December. |
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The woman in the seat behind me was trying to hush her baby. |
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Short shafts of dying sunlight mingled with the deepening grey, lavendering the horizon, and all nature seemed to hush as though waiting to welcome the night. |
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A hush comes over the auditorium as 19-year old Jessica Hailey begins her solemn walk across the stage at the Showstopper regional competition in Houston. |
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In the hush of my mountained vastness, in the flush of my midnight skies. |
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Within a year, they found capital and a venue, and launched Hush, to some acclaim and fervid celebrity interest. |
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Hush have also had some line-up changes with the addition of new drummer Shaun Phear. |
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Hush Bert, I'm only posting my thoughts, not dissing you at all. |
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Of course, gunplay still plays its part, but the most effective way is by using the Hush Puppy tranq gun. |
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Rose Hush Munneke Democracy in Wales is a farce as the Labour Party will, for the forceable future dominate the political landscape. |
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Several attempts to close the Flanders ports by bombardment failed and Operation Hush, a 1917 plan to advance up the coast, proved abortive. |
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