From The Haunters of the Silences by Charles George Douglas Roberts, 1907.

From Toike Oike, 1957.

From University of Montana's 1907 yearbook.

"From now until Jan. 22 this place will be a morgue!"  From Washington College's 1966 yearbook.

"Another kind of silence."  From Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles, 1912.

From Cine-Mundial, 1938.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.

This is probably still the best way to call for silence.  From Vera the Medium by Richard Harding Davis, 1908.

"What do you say when silent?"  From The Link, 1959.

"The cluttered hallways, battered and splattered and cursed, are dry with silence."  From Elon's 1978 yearbook.

"The silencer."  From Homespun Stories by Clara Denton, 1924.

From the University of Montana (Missoula) yearbook of 1907.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Rigid as the tower of silence.  From Lady Bonnie's Experiment by Tighe Hopkins, 1895.

The happiness of telephonic silence.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.

"There was a dreamy silence."  From Cosmopolitan, 1908.

"Silence that came alive."  From The Blue Moon by David Anderson, 1919.

The silent chimes are not heard.  From Johnny Ludlow by Mrs. Henry Wood, 1901.

Here's why mountains are bewitching.  From The Pendulum, A Novel by Cora G. Sadler, 1912.

"Noiseless city is predicted within ten years."  From 1931.  The naiveté would be quaint were Popular Mechanics not so excruciatingly, sickeningly smug about the religion it makes of Big Science.

"With a self-control that afterwards surprised myself, I said nothing."  From "The Merchant Prince" by J. Berwick Harwood, in Cassell's, 1890.