Again, silence; and then another enquiry, dropped as lightly as the boy could contrive.

A strange, dry silence dropped over them all.

Dead silence dropped over them all; Darian looked at each of his party in turn.

A silence dropped upon the chamber, intensified in some odd fashion by the steady beating of the drums.

When the wind died finally, a silence dropped like thin fingers of moonlight across Wind Plain.

Three deep chimes issued from the headquarters building, and the silence dropped across the courtyard.

It seemed his old silence had dropped from him.

Mike rubbed the back of his neck, and the silence dropped clammily on him as he tried to think it through properly.

A surprised silence dropped into the room.

The silence dropped over the two, with only the background hissing of the ventilation system.