tower of silence

“Do not use complaints, courts and lawyers to beat and to silence the enemy,” the NOA activists wrote.

The hum of earnest or glad voices here contrasted strongly with silence and meditation there.

Janet's silence impressed Hilda: it was not merely strange--it was formidable: it affected the whole day.

When he had finished, she took them from his hand, and turning them round in agitated silence, examined their seals and writing.

Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman.

There was a deep silence throughout the whole bivouac; some were sleeping, and those who watched were in no humour for idle chat.