In the teachers' room that afternoon after school, there was unusual silence.

He maintained an unusual silence, and would have accepted invisibility, too, had it been offered.

Gradually he became aware of the unusual silence at a time when Pat should be bustling about.

When I had finished my story, the not unusual silence followed.

"Not lose it, mother," said Jack, who had been sitting in a silence unusual for him.

Perhaps it was the unusual silence of the people, who stood quietly as darkness washed slowly over them.

If Idalia noticed his unusual silence, she did not break it with any comments of her own.

And again, that unusual silence of information withheld followed his words.

Hero, whom I met a couple of days afterwards, was struck by my unusual silence.

We ate them in unusual silence as we continued on our Sunday walk.