At the end of half an hour he lifted his head to the deep baying of the dogs at the railway yards, which had burst out suddenly, tumultuous and deadened as if coming from under the plain.
Not so fast as a crawling beetle tangled in the grass," answered Nostromo, and his voice seemed deadened by the thick veil of obscurity that felt warm and hopeless all about them.
The other man spoke first, in an amazed and deadened tone.
I had seen other women's deadenedand darkened spirits rebound and glow once more.
And that was like taking the deadened ends of nerves to cut them raw and quicken them with fiery current.
From time to time came the noise of single cannon-shots, deadened by the fog.
When a miner's song reached him, deadened by distance, it seemed to him to issue from the depths of the rocks.
The hall throbbed with confused sounds and the din deadened my thinking faculties.
I found him walking about in the up-stairs hall, but his own grief had deadened him to the fortunes of the warring companies.
Night after night, with only a grassy swish and deadened tread over the turf breaking stillness, we journeyed northward.
Old as I am, my feelings have not been deadened in regard to matters of such a dreadful description.
The drawn curtains only deadened the constant patter of the rain upon the windows, and the suggestion of the sort of evening outside thrown out by the sound, enhanced the sense of comfort and restfulness within.
All had their backs towards them, and were talking with animation, unaware of the approach of strangers, for the sound of the horses' hoofs was deadened by the soft turf.
The man approached, and his footsteps, though deadened by the carpet, were clear and distinct.
The Comprachicos deadened the little patient by means of a stupefying powder which was thought to be magical, and suppressed all pain.
In vain he groped to reconstruct the process by which that other spirit--which he would fain have believed his true spirit--had been drugged and deadened in its very flight.
Fear of the Indians, like a dog shivering with the cold, was a deadened pain on the border.
A rattling fire succeeded, deadened among the woods, but growing louder and nearer, till none could doubt that their comrades had met the French, and were defeated.
The necessity for keeping her mind on moving noiselessly deadened her thought to anything else.
The sounds of the city were deadened here to a dull rumble, while the vibrancy of the autumn afternoon excited his taut nerves.
The soft sand deadened every sound, as he crept through it, hands and knees.
It tickled into some kind of life his deadened self-esteem.
The early afternoon was warm, a westerly breeze deadened the sound of the distant bombardment to an unheeded drone, and a holy peace settled over the place.
He departed with a strange confusion of feeling--a weight upon his heart--and an obstinate deadened glow in every vein.
When in the distance, the deadened sound again reached him, he paused for a moment and seemed to wrestle with himself; then he went resolutely farther down into the town to Mary's house.
The natural enjoyment of life, the susceptibility to beauty in art and nature, the love of simplicity, were no longer possible to minds enervated and hearts deadened by the unrelieved monotony of luxurious living.
Only the deadened sound of the hoofs of our own horses, the deadened roll of our own carriage wheels, were audible in the stillness of the night.
Running awash and at full speed, U 247 literally scraped past the outlying rocks, the thresh of her propellers being deadened by the constant roar of the surf upon the far-flung ledges that thrust themselves seaward from the bold headland.
He knew, to be sure, that old age deadened sensibility.
Once she had been wholly penitent: but the tyrannous compulsion of her marriage had eased or deadened her sense of responsibility.
Only it deadened by degrees the ruddy colour in his face to a gray shining pallor, showing up one angry spot on the cheek-bone.
She could still give, but the power of receiving was deadened in her.
The victim went to execution wide-awake, with no mercy of deadened senses and dulled brain.
The concussion of the explosions almost deadened what little way the vessels had on, and the smoke hung over them like a pall.
The dreariness of winter has passed, and with it, the deadened affections of our nature.
The awakened sympathies of reciprocal caresses and fondness are mistaken for uncommon feelings, and the forbidding aspect of deadened affections is miscalled native sensibility.
Even the noise of the horses' hoofs was deadenedby the deep mud of the road.
At least it had seemed so until the monotony of the rain and cold deadenedhis senses, allowing him to fall into a doze.
Her own appearance was sufficiently ghastly, standing in the dark with her apron thrown over her head, and speaking behind it in a low, deadened voice.
The many sounds become sodeadened that the change is like putting cotton in the ears, or having the head thickly muffled.
His imagination, deadened by reality, must be fed and nourished by the poets, poetry, works of art, and historical facts of the past.
Were he gone for good, her services, her household love, would be freed from the incubus which had deadened her existence while he remained, and she would be saved from any apprehension for the future.
How day by day she deadened the senses, how every night cut off one more thought, how her heart was slowly reduced to ashes.
