There was a silence in the room, rigid and furious.

The rigid silence that followed this was broken a moment later by the jarring sound of one man clapping.

The stranger stood in rigid silence, staring at the strangled girl.

The moment for an outcry passed in rigid silence, his eyes contracting, and when he spoke it was a whisper.

Yet she was unable to bear his rigid silence.

He brought her the twig and maintained a rigid silence for the rest of their time on the mountainside.

But that authority was keeping a rigid silence on the air, still fearing attack.

Kassandros, who had listened in rigid silence, leaped from his chair.

Herilak raised his hand suddenly and they stopped in rigid silence.

She held herself in perfect stillness for a moment of rigid silence, then raised herself again.