deathly still

The fire was a smouldering heap of ashes, and the room seemed deathly still.

House, barn, orchard, all were deathly still there in the brilliant sunshine; I ran to the manger and found it empty of cattle.

Helen stopped suddenly there, and everything was deathly still—except for the fearful heaving of David's bosom.

The room was deathly still; nothing stirred but the long draperies fluttering in the wind.

From pure inability to articulate more, the white man halted; and that instant the room became deathly still.