The silence of the house, its emptiness, struck Susan like a fist above her heart.

Whatever the reason, Cristoforo could see that their silence had struck Father like a blow.

Suddenly the rich, carpeted, ticking silence of the room struck like a cuckoo clock.

Then (he engines cut out, and silence struck the courtyard like a physical blow.

About half the visitors were older Germans and their silence struck me; only the foreigners seemed to be talking.

But Covenant's silence struck her as a final refusal.

She said nothing, but her silence struck the boy like a breath of cold.

Several times she tried to speak, but his grim silence struck her silent in turn.

Nothing, evidently, had been altered in this room since silence and paralysis had struck the owner down.

In fact the silence here, after dark particularly, struck Radcliffe as eerie.