Chuckling silently to himself-who turns down his Emperor just because he's tired?

He chuckled silently to himself, thinking: Fear is the penalty of consciousness.

Adon began to suspect he had dreamed the scream and silently chuckled to himself.

You need a shrink, Duran told himself, chuckling silently, but not with much conviction.

For a while he chuckled silently, shaking his great stomach, until we grew impatient.

I didn't understand half of it but found myself chuckling silently.

It made her smile, then chuckle silently at herself.

Then she chuckled silently at her unconscious use of such an anachronism.

Beneath the counter crouched another Norman, chuckling silently into his hands.

I nodded solemnly, even though inside I was chuckling silently to myself.