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She looked at the seven travellers who met each night round the table for dinner, overcome with the mystery of those uncommunicating, shrouded heads.

From The Happy Foreigner by Bagnold, Enid

Sighs are born of elements which she had suppressed till they had died a natural death, but there was something in her very uncommunicating manner that provoked her husband's lingering at her side.

From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)

For the kerb uproar "the uncommunicating muteness of fishes" was the only panacea.

From Roving East and Roving West by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

I also must have been affected by it, for I had been there also in his uncommunicating company.

From Trivia by Smith, Logan Pearsall

Wealth has accumulated itself into masses; and Poverty, also in accumulation enough, lies impassably separated from it; opposed, uncommunicating, like forces in positive and negative poles.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest