Alone for a change, I leaned against the bottom half of a stable door, listening to the unaccustomed silence and thinking of knives.

Around her the ravens clustered in unaccustomed silence.

Whatever had started with the Demmicks' unaccustomed silence was getting worse all the time.

The Speaker, temporarily stunned into unaccustomed silence, finally said, "Good line."

As I re-entered the house the unaccustomed silence settled around me, and with the silence came a faint unease.

Yesterday had been fine, though, the countryside so gorgeous that even Clark had several times been awed to an unaccustomed silence.

They got back on to the carts and rode on in unaccustomed silence.

Granny subsided into unaccustomed, troubled silence, and tried to listen to the prologue.

Worsel listened to the unaccustomed silence in the room and felt at peace for the first time in a long time.

Elizabeth, nibbling at her food in unaccustomed silence, glanced down the table at John.