Brander stepped forward, tripped over a whirling leg, and dropped upon a smother of two bodies which writhed beneath him.
Then horribly it relaxed and fell away and was lost in a smother of bloody foam.
The squall was blowing out, there was nothing behind it and away on the port quarter the almost setting sun had broken through the smother and was lighting the sea.
I saw nothing till a big three-master broke out of thesmother making to cross our bows, no lights shewing, snoring along asleep.
If that lad over there had been able to talk plain,” declared Dan, helping the girls out from under the smotherof canvas, “we could have gotten out of the way.
In the darkness and storm it was not easy to find the weapon again; and while he was scrambling about on all fours to obtain it, two figures dashed out of the smother and fell upon him.
She sometimes felt that her husband also cherished his vain regrets, his moments of bitter conflicts when he tried to smother the unbidden thoughts that would thus arise.
And to this conviction, from the very budding of her womanhood, she was true; not the fear of poverty, obloquy, or death could induce her to smother it.
Her hand was pressed upon her bosom as if tosmother a pang; her handkerchief went constantly to her lips.
Why are you puttin' a four-year smother on that laad?
My nature is of an inveterate kind that, once afire and set to angry burning, goes on and on in ever increasing flames like a creature of tow, and with me helpless to smother or so much as half subdue the conflagration.
Then he turned and with a black frown at the two boys, climbed through the hatch into the howlingsmother outside.
She opened it in a whoop of joy and catching up her skirts ran to smother Bob in a great hug.
May the devil smother the first inventer of the same!
It was quite plain the party were in trouble; for, to smother grief, the ould master had slipped a second glass of poteeine into his tumbler just as I came in.
I tried to rush indoors myself, but some men caught hold of me, and said I'd surely smother in the smoke.
But she'll make a big blaze before they manage to get enough water going to smother the flames.
Suddenly voices struck through the smother all about them.
Not unless we get some wind," opined Jimsy; "queer how quick that wind dropped and this smother came up.
Through the smother a dull sound was borne to their ears.
As flashes of dawn that mists from an east wind smother With fold upon fold, The past years gleam that linked us one with another.
No dust that death or time can strew may smother Love and the sense of kinship inly bred From loves and hates at one with one another.
Smiles may lighten tears, and tears may smother Smiles, for all that joy or sorrow saith: Joy nor sorrow knows not from each other Birth and death.
Well, if you know whose cap it is, it ought to be easy for you to find the owner," she said, unable to smother the sneer in her words.
That feeling in him seemed to smother every other, even his hot rage against King for this sudden shifting of their plans and complete overthrow of the cattlemen's expectations of the troops.
If the Germans attempted to smother the fire-demon, to prevent the air from reaching his four noses, he would burst, and woe to him who chanced to be in the way of the flying splinters!
Kitty wheeled and lifted off the pan, choking in the smother of smoke.
To intrigue Kitty himself, to smother her with attentions and gallantries, to give her out of his wide experience, and to play the game until this intruder was on his way elsewhere.
This odd smother o' mist may stay a couple of hours.
Peering into the gray smother of sea and sky, Captain Jonathan Wellsby licked his lips hungrily as he said to himself: "Not now, but if the storm abates and we float through the night, these lousy picaroons shall dance to another tune.
It might be a respite before the wind hauled into another quarter and renewed its ferocious violence, but the air was no longer thick with the whirling smotherof foam and spray and the straining topmasts had ceased to bend like whips.
From the beginning of the Dreyfus case to the end of it all France, except a couple of dozen moral paladins, lay under the smother of the silent-assertion lie that no wrong was being done to a persecuted and unoffending man.
With a great smother of foam at her bows she ducked into the choppy sea and came like a race horse.
There was a fresh ten-knot wind blowing a little south of west--a wind that favored the schooner, and she was putting her best foot forward, taking the green water over her bows in a smother of foam.
Only a smother of snow, swirling up the canon, met his eyes and a blast of the rising wind his ears.
The air was filled with a smother of snow which fell unaccompanied by wind.
When Mrs. Gay first came to live with him, she was so beautiful and so delicate, that she looked as if a wind would blow her away--so soft that she could smother a person like a mass of feathers.
Some of the instances cited under "Sentimental Murder" and "Sympathy" show how often superstitious and utilitarian considerations smother all the family feelings.
Though it leads him, in a frenzy of despair, to smother his wife, it is yet, even in his violent soul, subordinate to those feelings of wounded honor and outraged affection which constitute the essence of true jealousy.
It is strange how intense mental anxiety will overcome and smother almost entirely the consciousness of bodily pain.
I’d have a row every night, and you could smother it up in the morning, besides paying all the expenses.
Still, sir, we cannotsmother this affair; justice must be done.
It was plainly as necessary, therefore, to shield her as to remove Jarvis Hammon and smother this accident.
As it was, seeing that Bob was pleased at the tribute to his wife's loveliness rather than offended at his friend's effrontery, she did her best to smother her resentment.
If we should try to smother those moles in their burrows?
Take fifty dragoons; I will take the same number; and we will try to smother them.
But he pressed her in his arms as if wishing to smother her.
Strengthen it by time with Christian courage, or else you will smother it with grief, long before your hair has turned grey!
Hence, his energy was never abated, though the whole legion of Victorian red-tape wanted to dry his inkstand, and smother his lamp in gaol.
Kenworthy had procured him a 'written free pardon' did smother me with bitterness.
For the sake of you and Mr. Aspinall, the barrister, I smother now my bitterness, and pass over all that I suffered on account of so many postponements.
One thing was evident to me, which was, that the party, whoever it might be, had attempted to smother the poor old woman, and that in a few seconds more he would have perpetrated the deed.
I could, and he ran up to me just as I was getting out of bed, and tried to smother me.
Feel'st thou within thee strength enough tosmother Each impulse of malignity and hate?
