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• r  without speaking

• The British have always been good at silence at family meals spent wordlessly; intense emotions expressed through a hand on the shoulder but on Sept.
• We stood wordlessly looking at the cross, remembering the true light of Christmas, even in the darkness of a Vietnamese prison camp.
• Also wordlessly (by Billy the Mime), as a card trick (by Eric Mead) and as a cartoon (by the South Park guys).

• mutely
• silently
• taciturnly

News & Articles

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• Pakistan's commercial hub faces growing extortion menace
  By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - One afternoon a stranger called at Muhammad Faizanullah's stationery shop in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial capital, and wordlessly handed the man behind the counter two items: a piece of paper with a phone number scrawled on it, and a bullet. "The letter contained a demand for 200,000 Pakistani rupees ($2,000)," Faizanullah, 20, said. "The man ...
  July 1, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• John McCain in Times Online
  McCain describes how the guard "rather nonchalantly used his sandalled foot to draw a cross in the dirt. We stood wordlessly looking at the cross, remembering the true light of Christmas, even in the darkness of a Vietnamese prison camp. A minute or...
• Ian McEwan in Los Angeles Times
  McEwan describes Edward's campaign in strategic terms: "Between Edward and Florence, nothing happened quickly. Important advances, permissions wordlessly granted to extend what he was allowed to see or caress, were attained only gradually:. Sudden...