Ere the incantation had been twice repeated, Damasippus threw a shawl over the girl's head, muffling her so completely, while he caught her in his strong arms, that an outcry was impossible.
The latter had struggled violently, and required to be held down by main force, nor in muffling her screams was it easy to observe the happy medium between silence and suffocation.
She went straight to the dog, received its head in her thick stuff gown, between her knees, and muffling it up, held it with all her might till the men came up.
At La Villette, Blucher met the members of his staff, and, with Gneisenau and Muffling by his side, and followed by the other officers, rode up the heights of Moutmartre.
It did not occur to me that I should have a successor here, and that he might be so stupid as to be unable to appreciate my Gneisenau, and the brave Colonels Muffling and Grolman.
Muffling pointed silently down into the plain, and over to the Windmill-knoll.
I must admit that Lieutenant-Colonel vonMuffling is right," sighed Gneisenau.
The quarter of an hour allowed by Muffling had not yet elapsed when the Prussians commenced slowly descending the heights of Kreckwitz, and marching down the turnpike toward Weissenberg.
All the fashionable people will be there tonight, and you must remember that many eyes will be upon you; and pray don't wear that horrid unbecoming dress, it makes a perfect fright of you, muffling you up to the chin.
Then kneeling down, he removed the muffling folds of the handkerchief from his face, and unbound the same from his head, that he might bathe his temples in the cooling stream.
Her age might be fourteen or fifteen, perhaps younger; it was difficult to decide through the muffling folds of a dress which levelled every distinction of form and comeliness.
Before the sound of their footsteps had ceased to echo through the house, the girl had slipped off her shoes; and drawing her gown loosely over her head, and muffling her arms in it, stood at the door, listening with breathless interest.
Good-night, Nancy,' said the Jew, muffling himself up as before.
But that did not follow: for in the treasury of nature it turned out that there were other resources for modifying the powers of distance, for muffling and unmuffling the voice of stars.
All afternoon a damp pall had overhung the Island, mopping up feeble sounds and strangely muffling the stronger.
She wore a scarlet cloak upon her shoulders, and muffling it about her head she ran down with Mrs. Misset.
Then, remembering the spinning wheel which stood in its muffling cloths against the wall in the hut, she brought it into the sunshine and laid Davey down on a shawl at her feet.
But it was also impossible to speak, and, muffling her face in her hood, Katharine walked smiling and squeezing Margot's hand out of pure pleasure with the world that was so fair in the midst of this blackness and this heavy cold.
He answered, 'You will be the better of a little colour,' and began muffling his face with his cloak.
The room was flushed With hue of gold in hangings round the walls And rugs of russetmuffling deep the floor, That made a kind of inner light diffused, Like sunshine without sun and shadowless.
The thunder dulled his stroke, retired to far And farther in the muffling firmament, The hail ceased falling in a fall of rain, Through which at last the low descending sun Smiled in a rainbow on the opposite cloud.
She dropped to her knees and extracted Beelzebub from the muffling folds.
The early winter night, which surrounded them withmuffling cold, pierced the heavy blankets round Swickey and nipped the cheeks and fingers of the two men.
No muffling of knockers—no strewing of straw in the streets—no doctor anxiously expected—no dosing of both parent and child.
She had on a big muffling coat and her face lifted out of the high collar of it.
She bade him farewell, with the little nod she had, and passed on, muffling her chin down into her great cloth collar.
Lazily muffling himself in the blanket, Foma asked: "Why do you need me?
All was heavily fragrant, close, muffling the senses.
They drove off in silence, the snow muffling the plunging hoofs.
For an instant the lace shawl muffling her face was lifted, as the door closed and locked behind her.
Here Maruja parted from her maid, and, muffling the shawl more closely round her head, hastily passed between the vine rows to a ruined adobe building near the hillside.
He reeled into a chair, and muffling his head in his two arms on the table, sobbed desperately; seeing himself very distinctly reflected in one of the many facets of folly.
He felt at her blindly, through the muffling blackness.
With his other he beat off the muffling blanket, and dragged her away from the door.
His first impulse was to bury the box under a muffling pile of bedding and send a bullet or two through the lock.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muffling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
