| It can also operate in a silent mode, alerting security personnel with a flashing light. |
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| The girl was silent for a moment, then she nodded, grunting in affirmation. |
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| And to demonstrate he whipped a white tea towel off a rail, and pulled it over his face, while giving a silent scream. |
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| I dimly noticed that Jay refused both breakfast and dinner through silent shakes of his head while I ate them mechanically, never tasting them. |
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| The room was silent as Lee and I shook on the agreement, than it suddenly came to life as the guys blurted out in a cheer. |
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| Padded feet, keen night vision and sensitive whiskers enable silent movement through dense undergrowth at night. |
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| Annika let silent tears fall and stain the blanket, as she fell into a nightmare filled sleep. |
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| In consequence we are becoming a tight-lipped silent majority afraid to rise above the parapet. |
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| He didn't even notice the ravenous hunger that made his stomach rumble in silent agony. |
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| Long, silent moments pass with only the soft sound of the leaves rustling to break the silence. |
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| Open up to me, they wibble, until you open up to them, and then they resent that you're not more strong, silent and dependable. |
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| He has not been implicated in the coup plot and has remained silent on the affair. |
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| He was silent for a few moments as the St. Lucian national anthem came over the loudspeakers. |
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| How can a silent teapot, a kettle of boiling water and the delicate aroma of tea possibly compete? |
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| Her fingers stilled on the keys as the piano strings stopped their vibrations and the lounge was silent again. |
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| She sat down beside me at the table, silent for a long moment before asking a question. |
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| The discharge of the air gun was virtually silent and propelled a projectile that would prove lethal to both man and animal up to 100 yards. |
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| They stood to attention in full Legion dress and led the small crowd in a moment's silent reflection. |
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| There is no need to tell you what immense pleasure and instruction Liszt gives his silent and attentive audience. |
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| So did everyone, there was a silent pause as everyone closes their eyes and makes a wish. |
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| Women have more non-typical types of chest pain and more silent heart attacks than men. |
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| You must have indeed shed a silent tear and perhaps given a bit of help to those who crave for your covertures. |
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| Near the head of the loch I pitched my tent in splendid, silent solitude on a grassy terrace beneath rocky buttresses and towering ridges. |
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| The bus stopped and we were all told by Eddie to be silent as a military style jobsworth with an unfeasibly large hat looked the bus over. |
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| Standing silently in a silent room when you're low on caffine and have had less than 6 hours sleep requires an active imagination. |
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| It was not the profundity of his words but the silent strength of his bearing that was so powerful. |
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| Meanwhile, co-star Jolie is perfectly suited as the tough, intelligent young lady who can pierce anybody with a silent stare. |
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| The gym became silent as a group of army colleagues, friends, family and well-wishers cheered Neil on. |
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| I have watched a cowherd lean on his staff, in silent waters that hide his worn feet. |
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| Even then, her silent beauty had received admiring appraisals and envious glances. |
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| In Andalucia, Spain, birch trees line up in ranks like silent soldiers on a tufted, dewy-green ground cover. |
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| Rachel remained silent as the memories and remembrances from years past assaulted her senses and her calm. |
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| Legal language, however, cannot remain silent in the face of unspeakable injuries. |
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| When Alexandra arrived at the ball the room fell silent and everyone stared in amazement. |
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| A glimpse of the silent rage of China's populace has awakened Japan to the need for a comprehensive regional strategy. |
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| Webster wanted to distinguish American English from British English by correcting irregular spellings and eliminating silent letters. |
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| After a brief silent interval the youths turned away laughing, carrying the sword in its lacquer sheath. |
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| If one whole side on any issue chooses almost without exception to remain silent then the discussion simply doesn't take place. |
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| The captain, his eyes becoming steely, his gaze carefully directed ahead, stood silent a long moment, his jaw muscles bunching. |
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| Belloc's was a grey and white stallion called Nightwind, an aptly named steed for he was as silent as he was fleet of foot. |
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| One day, when the sun shone hot and strong, I stood before this giant in silent wonder and admiration. |
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| Having clarified that, we cannot remain silent during what appears to be a ruthless and savage attack by the media on Charlie's character. |
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| On the far side, lit by flickering reed torches, we were confronted by a large and completely silent crowd. |
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| She fell silent and all Natalie could do was watch the display of emotions flitting across her face. |
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| As silent as a mouse I followed him, the pads of my feet barely hitting the dirt. |
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| Despite pinching from everything from silent movies to CSI, the ring scenes get old fast, mostly because they hold no surprises. |
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| The room was silent save for the haunting cry of a samisen's vibrations, and the occasional trade of words between patrons. |
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| When I arrived at the southern rim, the rescuers were all standing silent watching one of these cages being lifted out of the ruins. |
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| Shi Jialei, who is talkative and always wears a smile, said he was a wordless and silent child before he came to the school. |
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| The transition from silent movies to talkies destroyed many actors' careers, as did the shift from black-and-white to color. |
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| The soft shuffle of footsteps in the silent hall alerted Cassari to the fact that some of the students were moving. |
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| The lifts had closed, the punters had gone, the domain was ours and a lambent, purplish light settled on the silent mountain. |
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| Monks, adorned in their saffron robes, walking silent and barefoot, collect their alms from food vendors and passers-by. |
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| Likewise, when talkies replaced silent movies, many stars of the earlier era were unable to adapt and became human relics. |
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| It featured a sporting clay shoot, guided hunts for pheasant and quail and a celebrity dinner with live and silent auctions. |
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| For this reason the town will fall silent and its residents will pay their own respectful tribute today. |
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| But it was far less than previous years when the biennial gala featured as many as 500 silent auction items. |
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| Unless it's an outright silent film, you are never going to see a film in which the lead characters have less dialogue than this one. |
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| Their bare feet are silent as they make their way down the stone stairwells and through the corridors. |
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| Streets that once teemed with activity were now more silent than a graveyard. |
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| For a couple of silent minutes, he watched the picturesque scenery flash before him. |
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| Worries about a silent spring or a nuclear winter gave way to wonderment at the Internet and Dolly, the cloned sheep. |
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| The remaining 30 words included a silent consonant as the final letter of each word. |
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| The air in the room was silent and dead as pictures of war flashed across the telescreen. |
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| The Ballroom went instantly silent as everyone stared at my father's prostrate figure. |
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| That's when I say a silent prayer of thanks for the triple-redundant tape backups and burnt CDs of printed files that clutter our storage closet. |
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| He says he was only cajoled into being a public figure by his wife and son badgering him to avoid the silent comforts of the library. |
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| Jason Brown, a union shop steward, said the walk was not industrial action but rather a silent protest. |
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| Suddenly, the once somber and silent pressroom erupted in a cacophony of calls vying for the president's attention. |
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| Before her, a stone fountain stood silent and empty in the bright spring sunshine, all gleaming white against a sea of bluebells. |
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| All was silent except the panting of the Ellingham's and the occasional scrabble at the door. |
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| The room fell temporarily silent as the three pieced together all scraps of information. |
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| They forget that keeping silent in the face of injustice makes them accomplices of the criminals. |
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| Watching silent twisters at a distance was far different from watching a giant roaring twister stalk them from less than three miles away. |
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| Soon everybody quieted down, and remained silent as we tried to figure out where to go to next. |
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| Hilda's blank eyes stared at her, face waxen and mouth open in a silent scream with a thin line of blood drying on the side of bluish lips. |
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| I know what she's doing but I act like I'm too dense to notice I'm getting the silent treatment. |
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| This silent divide will almost certainly lead to widening divisions in the sector based on individual and institutional privilege. |
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| After retreating away from her, Keiran was silent for a moment, lost in thought. |
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| They remained silent for a moment, munching on their lunches and each deep in thought. |
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| While most of his pictures are serious and thoughtful, this one is full of silent excitement. |
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| Simeon was silent for a moment, picking a loose thread on the plain white cotton sheets. |
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| Today we hear a lot about the yearning for spiritual simplicity and silent contemplation. |
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| The mills are silent now, but well-heeled people still clamour to purchase any properties that become available in Rosemount. |
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| These women, of every age of life, with their tattered rags falling off their thin arms, stood silent as we passed. |
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| Such reform is arranged of seeming necessity within the context of a silent covenant. |
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| Combat helicopters and fighter planes patrolled the sky, and naval submarines and armed patrol boats guarded the waters of the silent port. |
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| Ms. Nalak was silent for a few moments and Tyler began to believe that all hope was lost. |
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| In 1916 he wrote what was most probably the first through-composed score for a feature film, The Fall of a Nation, a silent epic. |
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| One of the most important formal patterns enabling the creation of associational conceptional networks in silent comedy is the sight gag. |
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| A thunderstorm hit us with no warning and we lay soaked, silent and shivering with cold as the lightning and thunder crashed around us. |
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| Matt stepped forward and seconds later, our lips met one another in silent appreciation. |
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| I've resisted commenting on this phenomenon thus far, but I can keep silent no more. |
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| We play a lot of party games, and sand timers are inaccurate, and are silent when they run out. |
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| The clock on the wall ticked on, its sound echoing through the otherwise silent room. |
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| It made a soft thump, which sounded much too loud in the dark and silent room. |
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| Everyone fell silent though when the prince raised his racket and ball to serve. |
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| It has been a silent process that has been quietly putting obstacles on the road to peace. |
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| I am sorry for the silent treatment, but I was under the impression you were a duke that was coming to ask for my sister's hand in marriage. |
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| The silent and robust young man riding the horse that drew her kibitka was the chieftain of his tribe. |
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| Rain fell on the silent dead of Pere-Lachaise, on the streets and the houses of Paris, covering the whole city like a veil, like a winding sheet. |
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| Some mouthed silent words of thanksgiving while others joyfully praised the God of creation. |
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| People had held her in high esteem fancying that her withdrawal from public life was a sort of silent homage to her martyred husband. |
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| A large figure of St. Nabor, a martyred Roman soldier, overlooks the silent host. |
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| The bombardment by bangers, crackers and fireworks was such that there was hardly a silent minute in any town, of any size, in County Mayo. |
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| Apart from the traditions of Italian stage farce it owes as much to silent comedy as the other films owe to the silent cinema's melodramatists. |
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| She looked slightly aghast at his words, but any real emotion she hid behind a mask of silent fury. |
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| The depraved plot is shot with a schizophrenic camera incorporating elements of peepshows, montage and silent horror films amongst others. |
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| The consumers masticated their burgers and fries as they regarded the crowd with silent bemusement. |
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| If Miss Field and her neighbours cannot bear the racket, they should consider moving out to the silent suburbs. |
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| A couple of bars still stand nearby, bearing silent witness to the passing of better days. |
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| The kooks who said they were at war with their government are now completely silent now that a real tyrant is in power. |
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| A thickset woman with very short, dark hair, she was silent and barely flinched as people passing her hissed insults into her ear. |
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| His speculations in this regard, while intriguing, are teased from the silent ether and rely heavily on the fact of her general mendacity. |
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| A few years ago, the silent brush of a barn owl's wing sent Trish Nixon reeling from her porch in the still of the night. |
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| The mother shells an egg, in silent and thankful concentration, for her convalescent child. |
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| The elevator begins descending, and as daylight disappears, all is silent and darkness envelops us. |
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| Darkness descended all to quickly upon the three riders in their silent but desperate flight. |
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| A silent walk in remembrance of the victims of war led to a meadow where women called for healing. |
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| Four silent sentinels still mounted guard at each point of the coffin but the long queues of visitors had gone. |
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| The resulting film, Blackmail, was begun as a silent and then in large part reshot to take advantage of the new sound technology. |
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| The gift shop's offerings bear silent witness to a half century of American scientific discovery. |
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| Of course, there will be those who will choose the path of least resistance and remain silent on the matter. |
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| You've all heard it somewhere, most likely as the plinking piano in the background of some silent movie. |
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| Roy remained silent even though he smelled something fishy about the whole situation. |
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| It was carved in the shape of an open mouth, thick red lips stretched in a silent scream, white teeth showing beneath and a black gaping hole. |
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| A large number of silent films were also showing at picture houses all over Bradford. |
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| The room was silent once more, except for Bart and Milhouse discussing a lemon tree on the television. |
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| Cian lounged casually in the plush dark green chair, his leonine eyes rarely leaving the silent girl that sat opposite him. |
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| In general, all garden shredders have a high watt motor and come with silent crushing system. |
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| I cut the whole thing with a Moviscope, which is just a silent film viewer, and a pair of rewinds. |
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| There he was, giving a silent fist pump of celebration after receiving the trophy for second place at the Pinewood Derby. |
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| The whole room was silent while the guitar was still being plucked and a few other odd noises were involved. |
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| Blocking deacetylation by sodium butyrate or trichostatin A derepresses silent rRNA genes subject to nucleolar dominance. |
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| Willie takes over the business but admits the old man as silent partner, as the two younger daughters become free to marry. |
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| They each held the other's gaze for a moment, and some silent message was conveyed. |
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| They stood there silent for a moment, looking at each other and looking at the stars on the sky. |
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| I stopped for a moment in the silent air to enjoy the incredible surroundings which brought tears to my eyes. |
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| And then, momently, all is still, and all is silent save the voice of the clock. |
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| Around them all was silent on the approach to the rear of the station where only weeds and tufts of grass grew. |
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| The two were silent for a moment, and then suddenly the large clock in the hallway gonged on the hour. |
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| They head like a vast herd of silent bison for the tightly-packed bars, shops and arcades in buildings bejewelled with neon. |
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| Four silent sentinels still mounted guard at each corner of the coffin but the long queues of visitors had gone. |
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| Quickly Matt mouthed a silent thank you to Kiara, who nodded in acceptance. |
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| She'd sat quietly as her father drove her to the hospital, wringing her hands in her lap and mouthing silent prayers for Mark. |
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| After a while her posture lent itself a graceful, long-legged lope when she ran, or a silent stride when she was walking. |
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| The bazaar will feature Middle Eastern entertainment, children's entertainers, a rummage sale, a silent auction and food. |
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| Since the women had on pointe shoes we were given the treat of silent pointes. |
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| A blush reddens the silent girl's cheeks slowly, and Chester drops her fork in concern, eyes darting wildly from the girl to me. |
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| The red and black segment of the crowd were in delirium, the blue and white silent and despondent. |
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| The bill is silent on how votes will be cast, including the possibility of postal ballots. |
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| People milled around, gazing out to sea and watching the waves lapping at the jetty in silent worship. |
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| In the examining room, Dr. O'Brien was silent as he looked at the mole on her leg. |
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| The sequence is silent and directs viewers' attention to the intent gazes of museum-goers and the degrees of engagement or distraction. |
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| Moray eels shout at you in silent warning from their crevices and rays have been known to turn somersault. |
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| He seemed to carry on a silent battle, but then sighed and a fixed expression came over his face. |
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| He was silent for a few moments and then suddenly stirred as he began to make the first preparations. |
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| Less than an hour later, police were alerted by a silent alarm to a second blag in neighbouring Lacey. |
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| The thick blanket of depression stole around her, enticing her into the depths of a silent quagmire with it's sullen truths. |
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| As the door slid open on silent pneumatics, Ian entered with a barely subdued look of triumph. |
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| The classroom is silent except for the sound of crackling parchment paper and Lang's occasional suggestion. |
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| The room was completely silent other than the sound of dripping water from a corner of the room. |
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| The approach to Broad Street was silent but for the sound of a beating drum. |
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| Still the present silent ruins speak of their rich glorious past which we are all proud of. |
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| The courtyard was silent except for the sound of falling water, the fountain and the rain. |
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| This long-time silent passenger was now speaking with knowledge and authority. |
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| Psychologically, it's much harder to convict a feeling, speaking person than a silent figure who might as well be made of wax. |
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| It was a day when silent thoughts spoke loudly and tears told their own sad story. |
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| As he wrote, he gave silent thanks to the people who'd invented the helmet. |
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| She knew that this wasn't the safest thing in the world to do, but after saying a quick, silent prayer, she felt much more relaxed and safe. |
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| Fann's 5th-grade child has often written down Chou's name in silent reminiscence. |
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| A man was running, his mouth working silent screams of anguish and despair. |
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| More than 100 people congregated in the Westbury House Gardens, Bradford on Avon for an hour of silent prayer. |
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| The relatives and close friends sit in the same room as the deceased and maintain a silent prayer vigil throughout the night until morning. |
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| This means they spell words the way that they sound, missing out silent letters and not following spelling rules. |
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| The present study investigated how children spell words that contain silent consonants as their final letter. |
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| Intertitles, as well as pantomimed preludes and interludes, reminiscent of silent films, provide plot details and dialogue. |
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| Another intriguing tidbit concerns the gakudan, the musical group that accompanied silent films. |
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| EbertFest has a tradition of showing great old silent films with live accompaniment. |
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| The evolution of popular music and artists appearing in film began when silent films depended on piano playing for audio appeal. |
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| Alexander Jacoby is a British film critic whose particular interests include Japanese cinema and silent film. |
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| This is a silent feature film starring Jackie Coogan, costar of Chaplin's 1921 masterpiece The Kid. |
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| Film buffs will also enjoy the experience of seeing one of the last two-strip Technicolor silent films. |
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| Still, the film succeeds often enough to be worth a look, especially for silent film buffs looking for those neglected classics. |
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| I once watched a Fritz Lang silent film without music and my head ached for days. |
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| Freed from the shackles of words and dialects, silent cinema spoke a universal language that all nations and all classes could understand. |
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| He names silent film legend Buster Keaton as a major influence, and his expression is similarly poker-faced. |
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| If you're at all interested in silent films or Greta Garbo, buy this collection. |
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| The plot mechanics seem forced and even ludicrous at times, but the acting is generally restrained by silent film standards. |
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| But after taking time to consider the request, Mr. Kerik again decided to remain silent on the subject. |
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| Brent kept silent on the subject, deciding he'd rather not know how such a feat was achieved. |
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| Ever since it gave the probe into what went wrong to two independent executives, the network has gone silent on the subject. |
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| His mom has come around, entering counseling with him, but his father remains silent on the subject. |
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| First, the Justices said that the statute is not truly silent with respect to mental state. |
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| The largest forced migration in human history has left a powerfully silent documentary record for historians to work from. |
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| The prosecution remains silent on the subject, choosing instead to deflect criticism to the defense. |
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| And they don't know because the media has been conspicuously silent on this topic. |
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| Fourth and finally, Lincoln denied that the Constitution was silent with respect to secession. |
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| I never once heard my uncle, a shy, silent man, speak of the manner in which his wife had died. |
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| This now begs the question, is it time for the silent majority to get off the fence and let its voice be heard? |
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| They might not be the silent majority, but they are quite possibly a substantial minority who just might decide this election. |
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| A little restraint will also help to listen more carefully to the disquieting, but meaningful, silence of the silent majority. |
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| I figure one of us should be mature and cancel the silent treatment before the end of the year. |
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| A Malton man and his wife were having problems and were giving each other the silent treatment. |
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| She had ignored all of my phone calls last night, and I knew that today I would definitely receive the silent treatment. |
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| He is infuriated and gives her the silent treatment all the way home, but she doesn't notice. |
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| By several accounts, the organizers at Glastonbury chose to have a silent disco because it eliminates noise complaints. |
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| I hadn't been to the silent disco yet and they were planning to go early as it closed down for the weekend at 7 pm. |
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| Despite the best efforts of the silent disco, the party was back in the carpark after, and it didn't stop all night. |
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| Of course, no silent operation is possible at this fan rotation speed, even though it is built with magnetic bearings. |
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| He drummed on the table for a long, silent moment while Brandark carved a fresh design, then glanced sideways at Tothas. |
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| The red vertical cylindrical shapes of the missile silos stood silent watch over their companions. |
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| He buries his head in my shoulder, his own shaking with silent sobs. |
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| His whiny whimper and open-mouthed silent scream are priceless. |
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| Two silent support performers add to the atmosphere of surreal menace. |
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| Let there be no more blank cheques, backhanders or silent funding! |
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| This question is significant because Ruan built her career in the era of silent films, and she herself does not even speak very standard Mandarin Chinese. |
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| The voices are the mating calls of males singing to silent females. |
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| Despite the alien culture, I felt remarkably at home in Nepal, and as I flew over the Himalayas it was with sadness that I glimpsed their silent magnitude for the last time. |
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| But Spock is the reason I go for the strong silent unemotional type. |
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| Hoping they'd be safe enough, it was an eye-opener to read Enders's account of four of their Iraqi staff having a barney and falling silent as he passed. |
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| And I have to say that the constant histrionics and tantrums made a French workplace much more fun than the repressed emotions and silent back-stabbing of an English office. |
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| She is always fetching, and quiet unnerving as the silent stalker. |
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| Mr Cole remained sombre, straight-faced and silent as the returning officer pronounced Ms Greene, a local school governor, the victor with a 2,000-plus majority. |
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| As the beat of the hooves fell silent in the distance the priest heard a dry laugh coming from under the bridge and he knew immediately who was there. |
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| They are either in a minority or they are silent about their misgivings. |
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| After a nightmare week in Thailand with my ex, which she spent giving me the silent treatment, I had sworn to steer clear of lovey-dovey couples' holidays for good. |
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| The intersection is essentially between the Brotherhood, the military, the revolutionaries, and the heretofore silent majority. |
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| Next to their squeaky counterparts these silent wheels roll right through the cracks. |
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| Kit stayed silent for a second as though she had had an answer to that question but she couldn't quite remember it or else it was on the tip of her tongue. |
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| I waited and waited, closing my eyes with fear and impatience, but all was silent as the grave. |
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| The New Year eve celebrations may be marked by glitzy electric displays and noisy parties at one end and silent prayers for peace and harmony at the other. |
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| Hitchcock had the historical good fortune to have worked from silent films through television. |
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| Finally, the organ settled into the formal wedding march and everyone grew deadly silent when the wooden doors to the chapel opened with a loud creak. |
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| Tell someone why you're angry instead of giving them the silent treatment. |
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| I had a couple bluntly tell me that they hated it here, with the silent expectation that I would too. |
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| From the dawning of silent films, moviemakers have turned to books for grist. |
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| The Krishna Movement stresses continual silent chanting of the hare Krishna mantra in order to keep the mind focused on God. |
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| Arlan took the hint and fell silent on the subject until another time. |
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| It's like a silent alarm ringing on a carefully coded genetic clock. |
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| Even Republicans who opposed a federal wage hike in this cycle were often supportive or silent about state and local increases. |
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| At Joel's silent answer, Jesse sighed a sigh of regret and anger. |
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| She threw her body violently upright and stiffened, breathing heavily against her rebelling mind, pressing her thoughts into the silent empty space around her. |
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| Public address announcements will be made shortly before 11.30 am to invite passengers and railway staff to join in the silent act of remembrance. |
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| She sat with her knees together, hands clasped in silent prayer. |
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| My moms been giving me the silent treatment since we fought, it's been days now and I have given her tons of apologies but she just seems to ignore me totally. |
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| A few well timed shoves jolted the wooden crate that had barred the exit, leading them all up into the eerie silent Southwestern portion of La Fortaleza's courtyard. |
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| We've been called the silent majority but the key word here is majority. |
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| Bending, with a breaking heart, I touched the marble drapery with my lips, then crept back into the silent house. |
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| His cap in hand, Lou briefly scanned the packed stands, now silent as if on cue. |
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| All around the two silent watchers on the hill, an immense space spread itself between earth and sky, filled with dusky starlight and a fragrance of balsam and pine-smoke. |
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| Every night, they emerge from their roosts, taking to the skies on silent wings. |
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| Could this pick up the protest vote from the silent majority? |
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| Brokers at the Istanbul stock exchange stood in a minute of silent tribute to the boy. |
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| As the kids and I huddled together on the floor in the basement I sent up a silent prayer of thanks that we were all safe and basically in good spirits. |
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| It is a common occurrence to see the fans of baseball's Tampa Bay Devil Rays shut their eyes, either in silent prayer or to escape the sight of another humbling defeat. |
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| Many will simply stay away from crowds and stay home this Christmas Eve, which could be a very silent night indeed. |
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| At the otherwise silent hotel, I am woken at 6.30 am by the screech of gulls as the mackerel boats cast off from the harbour and head out on the early-morning tide. |
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| In the 1930s, monster movies were the staples of Universal Pictures' line-up, a cash cow as the industry metamorphosed from silent films to talkies. |
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| Building on the basis of both truth and legend, Universal added the lycanthrope to their pantheon of monster characters way back in 1913 with the silent film, The Werewolf. |
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| He has been notably silent as legislatures have stripped teachers of seniority, tenure, and collective bargaining rights. |
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| I threaded my way through the silent throng of spectators, but was stopped at Fourth Street by a cordon of police. |
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| We climb all day, the hot air silent but for the jangle of cowbells. |
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| We shared a silent moment and then a couple of folks snapped official pictures, and the handshaking started all over again. |
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| She was silent and stoic through her trial, but she is talking now. |
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| It's late afternoon Friday, and you are stopped at the corner of Weber and Northfield behind a silent silver Honda with no exhaust coming from its tailpipe. |
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| Next to her, Jenny Sanford, author of Staying True, and Dina Matos McGreevey, author of silent partner, look like wallflowers. |
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| There are so many poignant lines about Machiavellian politics and acting that I might try out here, that remaining silent would probably be my best course. |
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| They moved silently, without a sound, as silent as a butterfly. |
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| But he is said to have kept to his constitutionally guaranteed right to remain silent when it comes to Graham. |
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| If the constitution is silent on a subject then it's up to parliament from time to time to deal with that subject or not to deal with it, as it thinks fit. |
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| Glass boxes were stacked upon each other, each containing one type of rifle or explosive device, from the silent gun to the bazooka, time bombs to grenades. |
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| The night was silent but for the sound of the raging storm moving closer. |
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| Film stocks of the silent era were incapable of filming at night. |
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| Radio communications between the shuttle commander and mission control fell largely silent as the shuttle nosedived toward the Mojave Desert landing strip. |
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| But despite more prodding from them, Eve remained silent on the subject. |
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| Fleming laments that existing surveys and studies have documented something about the vocal minority, but almost nothing about the silent majority. |
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| My dolphin-shaped wind chime hung above the window, but it was still and silent as if it was waiting for something to happen before daring to make a sound. |
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| Now, its silent power is to be harnessed to help provide electricity for Windsor Castle in a scheme that underlines the Royal family's green credentials. |
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| The audience is silent one moment and filled with laughter the next. |
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| When we studied all the patterns of amino-acid replacement and silent substitution, we discovered several replacements that all placental and marsupial mammals share. |
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| A taxidermic bear stands almost six feet tall on his hind legs with his mouth gaping in a never-ending silent roar. |
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| The frogs were silent and branches broke with a split and crack. |
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| The Massachusetts draftees then resorted to the silent but effective nonviolent resistance of mass desertions, refusal to obey the hated officers, and going on sick call. |
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| Lash didn't bother staring back at his opponent and spent the next silent minutes looking around him and beaming at everyone who was staring wonderstruck at him. |
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| Joyce and Johnston have been silent on the subject over the last 24 hours. |
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| Francis and Metropolis fell silent and sank into their seats. |
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| With the proceeds of a very remunerative silent film in which he choreographed and danced a bacchanal scene, he re-channeled his life into a decade of travel and painting. |
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| I stayed silent for a long time looking over the letter again. |
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| In calm contrast to the hurry of sailing vessel and steamer a silent fleet of white warships lay motionless in midstream. |
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| The silent raindrops run down his pale skin like teardrops down a cheek. |
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| But Rich, silent until now, was regarding Shaun with a contemplative gaze. |
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| After another silent scrutinization, the woman seemed to relent. |
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| On Saturday evening preceding the banquet will be the silent auction. |
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| They were silent for a few moments, while Toni sipped her hot chocolate. |
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| He has been mysteriously silent on the subject of privatization. |
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| A silent column of peace protesters marched to a York market. |
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| He grinned and broke into a lope, still silent as owls' wings. |
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| They are the silent majority who have never spoken until now. |
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| If Warners does not accept the Hindu demands, the Hindu community will not be a silent spectator to the humiliation of its religious beliefs and scriptures. |
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