In the stilly night. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
There is no night in the "stilly" sense at a mine. From Wordnik.com. [A Touch of Sun and Other Stories] Reference
Dinny admired the stilly way in which the Judge said. From Wordnik.com. [Over the River] Reference
Again, nothing did happen, save a stilly night and grey. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
The loud pealing of cannons is heard in the dark stilly night. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles] Reference
He stood there stilly for a long time, looking out of the window. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of the Wind] Reference
‘No, no,’ said the young man stilly, and with a rising colour. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
It was a toss-up between "Annie Rooney" and "Oft in the stilly night.". From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
All was infinitely beautiful, remote and stilly in the level sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Swan Song] Reference
Under the stilly boughs and the black gauze of dusk the street was meshed in silence. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
The air was stilly cold, with a sparkling clearness; the sky as blue and brilliant as midsummer. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
Far off in the stilly night the lonely howl of a jackal rose like the lament of a wandering spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy Case]
The sounds of this most stilly night are almost wholly of the faintly pulsing sea — sibilant and soft. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
He sat back, satisfied, and caught the sound of emptiness in his room, emphasized by the stilly tick of his watch. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
There was there no gate with hinges to creak or bars to clang, and into the stilly darkness Iris walked unhindered. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
With oars apeak, and paddles down, the sheets of their sails adrift, the three boats now stilly floated, awaiting Moby. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
GB's so stilly thinking no one would notice his hand in scrapping the 10p tax rate for the poorest part of our community. From Wordnik.com. [Brown's 'got it now'] Reference
Arthur caused soon his host to be assembled, stilly by night his best knights; and forth the king marched with his good folk. From Wordnik.com. [Roman de Brut. English] Reference
The cries of the men for help and the crashing of the bolos and spears could be heard in the calmness of the dark stilly night. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles] Reference
Pouring out the drink at the sideboard in the dining-room, with one eye on the stilly figure of his guest, Val took a resolution. From Wordnik.com. [Swan Song] Reference
On this stilly, damp evening the air in the corner of the veranda happened to be resilient to the mellow notes of far-away pigeons. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
They also were soundless, for camels moved always stilly at night, and we had packed the equipment not to tap, the saddles not to creak. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
She never did when sleep did not come naturally; but always remained calmly waiting for the soother, till slumber dropped uncalled and stilly upon her eyelids. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Eisenhower, would be worse than stilly, even obscene. From Wordnik.com. [LaRouche's Latest] Reference
And you, -- though that last time so strange and stilly. From Wordnik.com. [The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century] Reference
Care the WEP/WPA protocols insecurity they are stilly widespread. From Wordnik.com. [ieXbeta Board] Reference
Oft on a stilly night one hears the blinds rattle never so slightly. From Wordnik.com. [Half a Rogue] Reference
With all his caution, steel grated against steel, and made too much noise in the stilly night. From Wordnik.com. [Put Yourself in His Place] Reference
It was beautiful in the stilly sitting-room, away from the noisy crowd, to hear love's heart beating. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
When the boy is tired out and quits the field, the faithful watch-dog opens out upon the stilly night. From Wordnik.com. [Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing] Reference
The level-floored, sagebrush-sprinkled hollow had filled with mauve twilight and creeping stilly sounds. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
The stilly rhythm of frogs drowned the clank of their pedals, and the sky was vast and pale and wistful. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
He was going to leave her something in his Will; nothing could so have stirred the stilly deeps of thought and memory. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
"Having a sort of 'oft in the stilly night' experience, Jim, or a case of William the Conqueror on the Field of Hastings?". From Wordnik.com. [Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic] Reference
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