The first stroke of eleven produced a magical effect.
Someone took off his hat, and with a nervous hesitancy the rest of the men bowed their heads also. Here and there an old soldier could be detected slipping unconsciously into the posture of 'attention'. An elderly woman, not far away, wiped her eyes, and the man beside her looked white and stern.
Everyone stood very still ... The hush deepened. It
had spread over the whole city and become so pronounced as to impress
one with a sense of audibility. It was a silence which was almost pain
...
As reported in the Manchester Guardian, 12th November 1919.
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