Lexicographical Neighbors of Silentest
Literary usage of Silentest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of England: From the Earliest Period to 1839 by Thomas Keightley (1843)
"The character of Lord Godolphin ranks high for probity and disinterestedness.
Burnet says that " he leas the silentest and ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"In such groups the observer does not think of heroes and sages. In the silentest
meeting the eye reads the plain prose of life, timidity, caution, appetite, ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... hearing were exalted, we should hare no ^uiet or sleep in the silentest nights,
and we must inevitably be stricken deaf or dead with a clap of thunder. ..."
4. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1917)
"... Concerted harmonies ; And on the knowe* abune the burn, For hours thegither
sat In the silentest o' joy, till baith Wi' very gladness grat ! ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"... and, receiving a negative reply, glided with the silentest of footsteps to
the door. He was about to close it behind him, when he suddenly returned. ..."
6. The History of England: From the Earliest Period to 1839 by Thomas Keightley (1843)
"The character of Lord Godolphin ranks high for probity and disinterestedness.
Burnet says that " he leas the silentest and ..."
7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"In such groups the observer does not think of heroes and sages. In the silentest
meeting the eye reads the plain prose of life, timidity, caution, appetite, ..."
8. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... hearing were exalted, we should hare no ^uiet or sleep in the silentest nights,
and we must inevitably be stricken deaf or dead with a clap of thunder. ..."
9. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1917)
"... Concerted harmonies ; And on the knowe* abune the burn, For hours thegither
sat In the silentest o' joy, till baith Wi' very gladness grat ! ..."
10. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"... and, receiving a negative reply, glided with the silentest of footsteps to
the door. He was about to close it behind him, when he suddenly returned. ..."
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