You may deaden your conscience, may smile and jest and dissemble, but the sun does not dissemble, neither does the earth, nor your own conscience.
He who will deaden one half of his nature to= 40 =invigorate the other half will become at best a distorted prodigy.
And so he mainly confined himself to administering a few opium pills, in order to deaden the severer sufferings.
The dank, dripping trees and the misty hills seemed to muffle and deaden the world.
It was a poor day for hunting, for the eye could not see forty yards; but it suited my purpose, since the dull air would deaden the noise of my musket.
Without endangering one's heart, it is impossible to take enough morphine to deaden a whiskey reaction.
He found himself tearing up a handkerchief and stuffing the shreds in his ears to deaden the hideous vibrations.
In this long vault the tramp of steeds and cries of their drivers resound so stunningly that they deaden all thought in the brain.
Like the master-touches of art, her grief, as it was beyond the sympathies, so it lay beyond the ken of those whom excellence may fail to excite, or in whom absence can deaden affections.
But all is not prayer and holy desire; even when the “soul has been cleansed by faith,” the Christian still must struggle against sin and against the body “in order to deaden its wantonness.
The moment the cry is heard, put the helm down and bring her up into the wind, whether she is on the wind or free, and deaden her headway.
Drift down with your anchor under your foot, heaving in or paying out on your cable as you wish to increase or deaden her way.
Put the helm down, light up the head sheets and slack the lee braces, todeaden her way.
A ship should be so stowed, and have her sails so trimmed, that she may be balanced as much as possible, and not be obliged to carry her helm much off the line of her keel, which tends to deaden her way.
The barnacle and the remora will indeed deaden its course, but the metal remains clean and bright: the billows of the world waste their corrosive powers only on the protector.
But the chief cause of his seclusion was no doubt the passion which was beginning to engross him, and to deaden his interest in the other relations of life.
How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged, in self-defence, to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity and in things attainable, that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not!
He had no instinct left but to deaden his sensations with drink during the hours of light, while waiting for the time when he could lie down and yield to the more potent influence of the opium.
He must have something to stimulate him anddeaden his nerves.
I answer you that I sought to deaden my trouble by distractions.
But one must needs interfere, must be doing something to deaden reflection, to hunt the wretched thoughts that torment one out of one's head.
To dull or deadenthe sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.
In order to deaden the shock, it was a pity that Barbicane was no longer able to employ the means that had so usefully weakened the shock at departure--that is to say, the water used as a spring and the movable partitions.
Barbicane had said to himself, not unreasonably, that no spring would be sufficiently powerful to deaden the shock, and during his famous promenade in Skersnaw Wood he had ended by solving this great difficulty in an ingenious fashion.
They were not in the least damaged, thanks to the precautions taken to deaden the shock.
But there are still some precautions to be taken to deaden the first shock as much as possible!
Youth and strength were asserting their own again, and the absence of familiar objects, and the glory of the air and the blue sea helped sometimes to deaden the poignant agony of his aching heart.
For, obsessed with his own selfish anguish, he had lived on with no single worthy aim, with no aim at all except to forget and deaden his suffering.
To the child herself physical suffering was so increasing as gradually todeaden mental, till at last it became so severe, that she felt sick and faint.
Ellen, becoming so deadly pale, that Edward forced himself to regain composure; the nature of his information causing such a revulsion of feeling in his sister as to deaden her to the horror of his words.
To deaden this unacknowledged remorse, his manner was rude and unfeeling, so that his very visits, though inexpressibly longed for by his mother, brought only increase of grief.
This end can be effected by having the intervening walls and floors so constructed as completely to deaden sound.
The floor should be covered with linoleum, or some similar floor covering, to deaden sound.
Hence it would be wise to adopt in public libraries a floor-covering like linoleum, or some substance other than woolen, which would be measurably free from dust, while soft enough to deaden the sound of feet upon the floors.
I find it apt to mix with the natural wax in the ears, a small amount of the cotton-wool remaining behind each time the wool is removed; and, what is more, it does not sufficiently deaden the sound.
Also, if you shoot through a hole in a partition screen, it helps todeaden the sound.
For practising in private, a pair of small down pillows tied over the earsdeaden the sound best, or a racing motorist's skull cap with ear shields but both are very hot in warm weather and cannot be worn in public.
