No, just an awful stillness, a total silence and an appalling evil that left dead children in its wake.

When they're around, there's an awful stillness in the water.

I should say something, do something, to break the awful stillness.

Except for the pounding of Crawton's own heart, an awful stillness fell upon the snow- covered landscape.

An awful stillness took hold in the car.

The men gathering stones and then this awful stillness.

He clapped his hands and listened to the awful stillness.

There was an awful stillness on the other side of the fires.

That awful, unnatural stillness, where it feels like you're not touching anything alive.

And seeing the awful stillness in the grey face, she felt for a pulse in the neck.