1.   It was pitch dark where I was standing, and silent as a tomb.

2.   The huge room was as silent as the grave.

3.   The towering buildings on either side are as solemn and silent as any of those monumental guardians recently uncovered along the Nile.

4.   They slid along the floor silent as fog and hoisted themselves to the foot of the bed to sit grinning.

5.   They all fell silent as the harsh glare played on them.

6.   Suddenly, Interview Room Two was still and silent as the grave.

7.   If the contract is silent as to the duty owed to the visitor, then the common duty of care in the Act will apply.

8.   Lord Poulett excluded certain named objects from the sale, but the contract was silent as to the objects claimed by the plaintiff...

9.   But Yankee Stadium Sunday was as silent as a cadaver.

10.   By tomorrow, my little cabin will be padlocked and its clearing will be silent as that meadow where some family once lived.