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Sentences starting with smothered

Smothered hilarity began to oppress me, presently. [5]

Sentences ending with smothered

And so I came face to face with another smile, behind a spying-glass,--a smile so cynical and unpleasant withal that my own was smothered. [9]
He roused himself and spoke, but at first his speech was broken and smothered. [11]

Short sentences using smothered

She gave a smothered cry. [11]
It smothered her sight. [11]
It is smothered ferocity! [5]

More example sentences with the word smothered in them

The woman may yield to overwhelming circumstances, she may even by her own consent be false to herself, but the love lives, however hidden and smothered, so long as the vital force is capable of responding to a true emotion. [4]
Ay, and he would have come if he had not still felt some love for me, if he had not misdoubted himself, and feared that the dying woman might once more light up the fire he had so carefully smothered and crushed out. [10]
At length, after what seemed an age of staring at his legs, the ground caved on him, and he would have smothered if we had not dragged him out by the heels, sputtering and all powdered brown. [9]
And, as we went southward, our hands and faces became blotched all over by the bites of mosquitoes and flies, and we smothered ourselves under blankets to get rid of them. [9]
In the canons we almost smothered in the baking atmosphere. [5]
Could not-- He was suddenly startled by a smothered cry, then a call of distress. [11]
But his voice was smothered by the shouts of the advancing multitude. [10]
It sent her to her feet with a scarcely smothered cry. [11]
I was going to buy a paper-cutter, but I believed I could remember the cold comfort of the Rigi-Kulm without it, so I smothered the impulse. [5]
A stroke of the vast paw, a smothered roar as the teeth gave into the neck of the beautiful Fatima, and then--no more. [11]
At last the stranger got out a smothered "'Nuff! [5]
Presently, with a stir of fright and a smothered cry, she waked to a sound which was not of the supernatural or of the mind's illusions, but no less dreadful to her because of that. [11]
But presently she started back with a smothered cry. [11]
The two were smothered in quilts brought from the Cure's house, and carried swiftly to the cool safety of the grass and trees beyond. [11]
If a strawberry smothered in cream has any consciousness of its delicious situation, it must feel as I felt at that moment. [4]
With a little smothered gasp, she made a move forward as though to lock the door; then she remembered that it had no lock. [11]
With a hoarse, smothered cry he awoke. [11]
I heard muttered sentences; half-uttered screams that seemed smothered violently; and the swish of invisible garments, the rush of invisible wings. [5]
He began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered 'Sergey' he sobbed, 'Kuz-mi-ch,' tears, and 'From all sides' was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. [2]
A cold chill ran through him when she asked him with trembling lips and a smothered voice, "What harm have I done you? [10]
With a smothered protest the nurse left, and Jim stood beside the bed with the telegrams. [11]
It overlooks a picturesque region of wooded hills and ravines; and is not unpicturesque itself, being well smothered in flowering weeds. [5]
Perhaps it's the people, or the Frenchiness of it, or the tumble-down, picturesque old creole quarter, or the roses; I didn't suppose there were in the world so many roses; the town was just wreathed and smothered with them. [4]
On the instant's pause, in which Zoe looked at her lover almost involuntarily, and without fully understanding what he said, someone else started forward with a smothered exclamation--of anger, of horror, of dismay. [11]
He snatched it--gloated over it; doubted it--bit it--found it genuine --choked his heart down, and smothered a halleluiah. [5]
Our party, riding on the outside of the coach, was half smothered with the dust, and arrived in a very deteriorated condition, but recompensed for it by the extraordinary sights we had witnessed. [6]
After an age of this, another sound--far off, and coming smothered and faint through the riot of the tempest--a bell tolling twelve! [5]
This potent fire of love might doubtless be smothered with sand and ashes, but never extinguished. [10]
With a smothered oath he snatched a musket from Maurice Joval, took steady aim and fired. [11]
Some, more cautious, might have smothered it among the piles of their private communications. [6]
Little by little its flames were smothered until in manhood there seemed no spark of it left alive. [9]
In my time it was a beautiful little town, made up of snow-white wooden cottages deliciously smothered in tropical vines and flowers and trees and shrubs; and its coral roads and streets were hard and smooth, and as white as the houses. [5]
We were terrified into this by being suddenly confronted with a vast body which showed itself vaguely for an instant and in the next instant was smothered in the fog again. [5]
Kaschta sprang forward into the midst of the smoke and sparks, and snatched his daughter from the arms of her preserver, who fell half smothered on his knees. [10]
It has kept him in a state of smothered exasperation all the time. [5]
She had not heard a smothered cry behind her. [11]
An hour later he entered the cabin, hot, red, and ready to burst with smothered excitement, and exclaimed in a stage whisper: "I knew it! [5]
A score of hands caught them, coats smothered Dennis's burning clothes, and the man he had rescued was carried across the street and laid upon the pavement. [11]
Very occasionally he had smothered her with affection, but that had passed, until now, middle- aged, she seemed to be not a room away from him, but a thousand rooms away. [11]
The ghastly, treeless, grassless, breathless canons smothered us as if we had been in an oven. [5]
A Goethe, perhaps--a Goethe smothered by a twentieth-century environment. [9]
Jane smothered the glow and burn within her, ashamed of a passion for freedom that opposed her duty. [13]
Suddenly he leapt from behind the buffalo upon the fellah and smothered his mouth in the white cloth he had brought. [11]
Thus smothered, its fragrance stifled, it seemed emblematic, somehow, of the clandestine nature of her love.... [9]
With a fierce fondness he snatched at the dog's collar, and drew the shaggy head to his knee; then as suddenly shoved him away with a smothered oath, and going into the house, shut the door. [11]
The thousand blankets flapping in the air were the machine guns of the foe following his battery into a zone of less dreadful fire, and the blankets that smothered him were wrappings of unconsciousness which save us from the direst agonies of body and mind. [11]
Elfonzo caught the expression; a halloo of smothered shouts ran through every vein, and for the first time he dared to impress a kiss upon her cheek. [5]
One sees that Elfonzo was surprised, too; for when he caught that light, "a halloo of smothered shouts ran through every vein. [5]
Stooping over, Noreen drew the knife out with a little gurgling cry--a smothered exclamation. [11]
With a smothered cry Mitiahwe turned and fled into the darkness, and back to the lodge. [11]
Lise had often boasted of a taste for oysters on the shell, though really preferring them smothered with red catsup in a "cocktail. [9]
O my brown beauty, with those soft eyes and cheeks of smothered fire, you have no need of that red philter! [4]
Him they besought; and when spring came they set forth to Lonely Valley again that the woman and the smothered dead--if it might chance so--should be put away into peaceful graves. [11]
The onlookers exclaimed, and then became silent, because a subtle sense of tragedy suddenly smothered their voices. [11]
Aunt Polly, Mary, and the Harpers threw themselves upon their restored ones, smothered them with kisses and poured out thanksgivings, while poor Huck stood abashed and uncomfortable, not knowing exactly what to do or where to hide from so many unwelcoming eyes. [5]
All them people and camels was smothered and dead and buried--buried under ten foot of sand, we reckoned, and Tom allowed it might be years before the wind uncovered them, and all that time their friends wouldn't ever know what become of that caravan. [5]
With a cry and a smothered oath, Mr. Devlin sprang towards the machinery, Roscoe with him. [11]
The fog-whistle, smothered among a million of trifling sounds, is not noticed a block away, in the city, but the sailor hears it far at sea, whither none of those thousands of trifling sounds can reach. [5]
And the Honorable Alva himself, very red in the face and almost smothered, could be dimly discerned at the foot of the stairs trying to fight his way out of a group of overenthusiastic friends and admirers. [9]
There was something alluring and suggestive in the soft, smothered radiance. [11]
So, as her admiration for Michel grew, her debt to Angele became burdensome; and, despite her will, there stole into her mind the old petulance and smothered anger against beauty and love and marriage. [11]
Now he heard a sound-like a smothered cry or groan. [11]
She had had a shock, but it had not stirred the inner, smothered life; there had been no real revelation. [11]
But he made a sad business of it with his unsteady hand, and a smothered titter rippled over the house. [5]
Then there was a lantern's flash, a smothered oath, and all was dark again. [9]

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