taciturnity
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Taciturnity is a big thing when you know how to work it, and so is proneness to irritability.
From Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica by Bangs, John Kendrick
My Love of Solitude, Taciturnity, and particular way of Life, having raised a great Curiosity in all these Parts.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
Taciturnity becomes habitual to men accustomed to vast solitudes.
From A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country by Beasley, Thomas Dykes
She is the very Magazine of Taciturnity; for whatever she sees, she says nothing; it being a standing Maxim with her, That they that cannot make Sport, shou'd spoil none.
From The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women by Anonymous
B. Not for a fashionable novel.—"There he stood, like Taciturnity bowing at the feet of proud Authority."
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
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