But they were silent walks; and the silence, though apparently she did not notice it, oppressed him.

He rubbed his eyes, as the silence around him oppressed him further still.

The silence, however, oppressed me; and to be thus in pairs, one is verily lonesomer than when alone!

A deathlike silence oppressed all nature.

The silence, the scent of rotting things in the heavy air oppressed her.

The silence oppressed him.

Because the silence oppressed her, because of a sudden, this last, this perilous last jump, she wanted a voice or two out of the dark.

The silence of the house oppressed her, and the few noises of the street made her start.

Funny how this silence oppresses one.

Total silence oppressed him.