31.   The room is silent as the pictures click by.

32.   The room falls silent as the owner of the cameras, a CNN journalist steps forward to explain.

33.   They huddle together in a pair of two-story buildings, surrounded by dozens of boarded-up buildings as silent as tombstones in a graveyard.

34.   They stood as silent as mourners at a funeral home.

35.   Watson swept his eyes around the packed room, which was as silent as a library.

36.   We were silent as the road played out ahead of us.

37.   When he emerged from the Foreign Ministry on Friday, he stood silent as Stephen J. Hadley, the deputy national security adviser, made a brief statement.

38.   Yankee Stadium was as grim and silent as a graveyard.

39.   Others, trapped in luxurious hotels, lunched by the pool under clear blue skies in a city almost as silent as the countryside.

40.   Peering through thick helmet visors, a row of riot officers stood silent as student protesters prodded their plastic shields with sticks and hurled taunts.