During the lifts, the room would go completely quiet no whoops or catcalls, just the deep silence of absolute concentration.

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As the air traffic died down, I finally found silence deep enough to get lost in.

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Saudi Arabia, for its part, has maintained a strained silence that belies deep chagrin.

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From one side of the room, Ed heard a suppressed giggle, from the other a silence that was too deep to be genuine.

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Viduka had a chance to silence the terrace taunts deep into injury time, but his volley went straight into the grateful arms of Turnbull and the points were shared.

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People from the other tables had gone to bed: in the sudden silence we distinctly heard the deep roar of a serac, like the bones of a giant trying in vain to turn over in his bed of rock.

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But they were stunned into silence on 23 minutes when Billy Sharp curled in a deep cross from the right which Quinn met with a firm header back across Richard Wright and into the net.

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There was something about the way he looked at us in silence, each person in turn, for those 3 minutes, that made a deep impression on everyone in the room.

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Lulled by the silence of the carriage and the prospect of alpine rail travel, I fall into a deep, childlike sleep.

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She lapses into silence and you are reminded that she is a girl who keeps her painful memories hidden deep inside, and doesn't like to talk about them.

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