1.   But, of course, he was and is a fairly silent man.

2.   He was a cipher to me, a silent man of abstracted benevolence, and I never got to know him well.

3.   Her husband was a big silent man.

4.   The culprits, he says, were two silent men dressed in black.

5.   The last is Tydeus, a silent man.

6.   The ticket he was presented that morning by the silent man in the medium-grey gabardine raincoat was just another ticket.

7.   Then the silent man simply walked out of the room, with a nod and a smile.

8.   My father was a very silent man.

9.   Above Carroll sat Grier, once a silent man but now one striking out at the coaches beneath him to try and save his own skin.

10.   He is aproned to the chin in a white cloth and looks straight ahead while a silent young man applies the clippers to a few unruly curls.