Wordless

Mrs. Cavers leaned forward, straining her eyes after the cloud of dust that marked the pacing horse's progress, clasping and unclasping her hands in wordless misery. ❋ Unknown (1910)

One minute the ball went close to Millford's goal and Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Perkins clutched each other's hands in wordless dread; but the wiry form of Teddy Watson shot up in the air and the ball bounced back into the Millford captain's stick. ❋ Unknown (1910)

She had spent the long night by the kitchen fire listening to the raging of the storm, Martha close beside her in wordless sympathy, and when Dr. Clay came in with the good news that the operation was over, and the great man believed that Libby Anne would live, she was almost hysterical with joy. ❋ Unknown (1910)

She sat upon the ground absorbed in wordless despair, when through the gusty wind and bickering rain she thought she heard her name called. ❋ Unknown (1826)

It's entirely wordless, which is actually a pretty clever choice on Robinson's part, as it allows for a number of surprising fake-out moments that might not have been so surprising if Robinson had allowed his characters the opportunity to speak through their situations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She uses very few words (though Robot Dreams isn't truly a "wordless" book, as I discussed back here). ❋ Unknown (2008)

The label "wordless" seems to mean something different when applied to children's picture books. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Chicken and Cat got labeled as "wordless" because it doesn't have words where most picture books do. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One of the "wordless" suggestions is Tomie dePaola's wonderful Pancakes for Breakfast. ❋ Omnivoracious (2010)

It was just the kind of wordless symbolism in which McQueen used to specialise. ❋ Fashion Editor (2010)

I've never been really clear on the "wordless" rules. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So I'm cheating on the "wordless" part a little bit here, to tell you that even though these aren't the cutest pictures ever taken of Simba, they're glad ones, because they show him walking after his injury. ❋ Pat (2007)

They matched grins in some kind of wordless exchange that baffled Kethry, then the Shin'a'in edged her way past the crowded work-table to the oldster's side. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1998)

We traded the weights back and forth — it was a kind of wordless morning prayer for us. ❋ Irving, John, 1942- (1981)

The Godhead is the revealer but unrevealed: it is described as "wordless" (Yâjnavalkya's _neti_, _neti_), "the nameless nothing," "the immoveable rest." ❋ Charles Eliot (1896)

Visions, touch-illusions, external voices, inner and "wordless" voices, which we now regard as psycho-motor hallucinations -- all that we meet every moment in their works, until they become commonplace. ❋ Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron (1877)

Chicken and Cat Clean Up. Like Varon's earlier works Robot Dreams and Chicken and Cat, this sequel to Chicken and Cat is a speechless comic (I would say "wordless" but there are words in the environment of the comic, on trucks, stores, etc) which I would imagine makes it exceptionally attractive to young children just beginning or not quite yet reading. ❋ Unknown (2009)