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But another person in that operating room was stirring awake: the long-silent, etherized body lying at the far end of the scalpel—the cancer patient.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

Salvaged from dusty basements and attics, scrawled on timeworn paper that has been folded and refolded, the long-silent voices emerge:

The Civil War 150 Legacy Project: Out of Virginia's attics, voices from the past Tara Bahrampour 2010

But another person in that operating room was stirring awake: the long-silent, etherized body lying at the far end of the scalpel—the cancer patient.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

If the long-silent Rheims circuit is a well-known place of pilgrimage, the fine memorial at the junction of the D937 and the D1029, on an otherwise featureless plateau south of the town of Péronne, came as a complete surprise.

Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One architect is off on the wrong track 2010

Salvaged from dusty basements and attics, scrawled on timeworn paper that has been folded and refolded, the long-silent voices emerge:

The Civil War 150 Legacy Project: Out of Virginia's attics, voices from the past Tara Bahrampour 2010

But another person in that operating room was stirring awake: the long-silent, etherized body lying at the far end of the scalpel—the cancer patient.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

There has been a lot of talk lately of another "" shoe '' dropping, as if some long-silent woman would be loony enough to come forward now.

An October Surprise 2008

For a jubilant minute there, I thought long-silent voices had all suddenly decided to shout.

Philocrites: UU blogger in Iraq. 2004

For a jubilant minute there, I thought long-silent voices had all suddenly decided to shout.

Philocrites: December 2004 Archives 2004

Why invoke those long-silent spectres, white as well as black, when all active boorishness is of the past?

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003