blanket of silence

But now the dragons could hear them again, for the blanket of silence was gone.

The night was a blanket of silence in which every living thing seemed to have drifted off to sleep.

The press put a blanket of silence on us, and that was that.

The quiet draped over the room as if a blanket of silence had been tossed upon it.

A blanket of silence fell as everyone realized she could not see a coronation unless the king died.

"No." A thick blanket of silence descended over us.

Those rallies came despite a blanket of silence about the detentions in the official Chinese news media.

All of this combined to throw a blanket of silence over the meal.

Sometimes the stones seemed to drink up noise, shrouding the yards in a blanket of silence.

The ticking of the clock stitched the blanket of silence.

Another blanket of silence fell between us.

Since then, Pennzoil has thrown a blanket of silence over all but a few of its maneuvers.

For a moment, utter silence, a blanket of silence that muffled absolutely all attempt at sound, descended.

An eerie, unearthly blanket of silence had fallen over Kaena Point.

Somewhere in the night a cricket chirped, the last sound he heard before he was surrounded by an eerie blanket of silence.

She felt completely alone, and the click of her heels, which seemed to echo from every building, was the only sound breaking the blanket of silence.

Cathryn threw a blanket of silence, Imbri explained.

"A blanket of silence?

"There was a blanket of silence" over Pyongyang, said the teacher, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of worries about his security.

Under a blanket of silence and bright stars, the Americans prepared to venture from a familiar enclave into a confusing Afghan mosaic.

A blanket of silence had descended upon him, and although he could see the Council arguing heatedly, not a word of its deliberations reached him.

Melicard had ordered Drayfitt to enshroud the chamber in a blanket of silence, meaning that all sounds would pass no further than the walls.

There was a sudden, deadening blanket of silence, and Sarah Stampe just faded out like a TV program when the sound is turned off.

Through the jabber of his mind-noise, Valerius heard a blanket of silence fall on the humming conversation of Rome's populace.