Lexicographical Neighbors of Silenter
Literary usage of Silenter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau: Lately Discovered Among His by Henry David Thoreau, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Bibliophile Society (Boston, Mass.). (1905)
"silenter and silenter grows the memory as she wanders farther back. When I revolve
it again in my mind, gazing into the West at evening, whether these ..."
2. The Life and Times of St. Anselm: Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of by Martin Rule (1883)
"And then ? What then ? The Pope saw further than the good Bishop of Lucca.
So did Anselm. ' Sedebat ergo, uti solebat, silenter ..."
3. The Invaders: A Story of the "Hole-in-the-wall" Country by Jacque Lloyd Morgan (1910)
"Now every three or four months Steve would get one of his spells; he'd get silenter
and silenter, and finally just to noddin'—kinda blue-like ..."
4. Adam Bede by George Eliot (1893)
"... take it ill if I 'ma bit silenter and crustier nor usual. Trouble doesna make
me care the less for thee. I know we shall stick together to the last. ..."
5. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"... take it ill if I 'ma bit silenter and crustier nor usual. Trouble doesna make
me care the less for thee. I know we shall stick together to the last. ..."
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