They appeared little larger than pigeons, and made their tiny movements with a soft, spirit-like Silentness.
"Desperate Remedies"
Thomas Hardy
Nor did we give expression to a thought which strongly oppressed me, and which I once or twice fancied I could detect in John likewise-how very like this night seemed to the night when Mr. March died; the same Silentness in the house-the same windy whirl without-the same blaze of the wood-fire on the same kitchen ceiling.
"John Halifax, Gentleman"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
There is a Silentness That answers thee enow, That, like a brazen sound Excluding others, doth ensheathe us round,- Hear it.
"The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning