1.   Smiling feebly, Mundin stood silent just when I needed him to bring in the cavalry and rescue my besieged story.

2.   The glass stands silent in the gallery, he wrote, but it burns up the lies of the gallery.

3.   Asked if any one of them would support a Dole running mate who favors abortion rights, the gathering stood stolidly silent.

4.   Bird rookeries in mangrove swamps stand silent.

5.   A few bumpy miles up the road, the hamlet of Daulatzai stood silent but for a pair of shepherds grazing their animals on the hillside.

6.   A light blue steel lathe stood silent near a tan drilling machine.

7.   A month earlier, according to the Hebrew calendar, Israelis stand silent during their own sirens to honor their military dead.

8.   But for years, thanks to a U.S.-backed eradication effort, the press has stood silent, no longer used to bale coca leaves.

9.   Clinton stood silent as the applause rose from the crowd.

10.   Deep in the countryside, with a hint of ocean in the air, green rice fields stand silent except for the swish of a breeze.