But she smothered these fancies--steeled herself for her task.
At the back of the lawn was a cheerful-looking little cottage, almost smothered in flowering creepers.
Each, however, is better than steak smotheredin onions or potatoes fried in lard; any "hygienist" will tell you that.
The bitter wind whistled through the crannies of the ill-fitting casements; there was a smothered sound of snow lashing the windows.
Instead of that personal ambition which often sacrifices the future to the present, he had family ambition, a feeling that seems lost in these days, smothered by the stupid regulation of inheritance by law.
A smothered sound of amusement appeared to come from the halberdiers, but Mr. Wilson looked merely bewildered, and Mr. Buck merely diabolical.
Mr. Buck made a bitter face, and James Barker's nostrils curled; Wilson began to giggle faintly, and the Provost of West Kensington followed in a smothered way.
Then throwing her arms round Mr. Earnscliffe, she half smothered him with her gratitude.
They dared not ask him any questions, for there was something about him, a touch of savageness and smothered bitterness in his manner which warned them that any display of curiosity would be resented.
A laugh spouted up from the spectators within, and was halfsmothered by the canvas of the show.
Isn't it kind of her to have come over to see me from such a distance 'Just look and see: I'm actually smotheredin wine and grapes and jelly and flowers.
It was followed by a smothered exclamation in a man's voice, brief and profane.
A smothered scream from the bed caused him to start up.
With a smothered cry she reached his side, clutched at him, half sobbing, drawing him back with all her strength.
Gradually it brightened and a smothered sob found place in the roses.
Here and there a trawler tossed and rocked; lean, melancholy wanderers on the face of the waters; twice the raking stacks of destroyers, smothered in foam, dashed eastward running full speed on some occult trail twixt sky and sea.
But she only heard a child laughing inside the sentry box, and the smothered ruffle of preening wings.
The throbbing hum of his engine was smothered by the clatter of the horses' hoofs, and the yells of their riders spurring them on.
Children and women shrieked; the men leaning against the walls took their cigars from their lips and gasped; and the noise of the engine was almost smothered by the mingled din of barking dogs and screaming fowls.
Rubbing his eyes, and taking automatically a pull at his extinguished cigar, he let out a smothered ejaculation, struggled to his feet, and hastened into the house.
The stench of the dead bodies of mules smothered in their stables was unbearable.
Lapierre smothered his rage, and with twenty men at the track-line of each scow, bored his way southward.
With a half-smothered curse he leaped to his feet, overturning his chair, which banged sharply upon the plank floor.
But zealous Perk kept hold of her until she could be drawn up by many willing hands to be fairly smothered with a multitude of kisses, the women in particular showing their enthusiasm in this regard.
Others were streaming ahead, everybody displaying the utmost zeal to get to the fire before the conflagration was smothered by the streams of water turned on it.
Jack, she's goin' to be smothered an' burned to a crisp if nobody c'n get to her in time!
Jack could see no sign of life about the little child and had some fear that the rescue might have been too late to save him from being smotheredby that dense smoke.
The time had come for them to feel the joy of full sunlight again, and the tree peonies were no longer to be enveloped in tawny fern branches, or to lie smothered in litter.
Biddy answered with a smothered cry from the inner room.
The dog was the only one who answered him, with a smothered growl, for he still held fast by the grip he had taken of the man's throat.
Julia dropped to the rug, and smothered the soft whiteness and fragrance of little Anna in a wild hug.
A climax came, and the kindly chloroform smothered the last terrible cry.
Martineau was, how helpful and fine and forgiving his professional training had made him, how completely he had ignored the smothered incivilities of their parting at Salisbury.
But England takes an American memory back most easily and most fully--to Avebury and the Baltic Northmen, past the emperors and the Corinthian columns that smothered Latin Europe.
Even though the manifestations of primeval personality be largely smothered under the tendencies due to bodily and prenatal influence, it is there, and makes its mark.
This is Colonel Hancock's," the girls replied with a smothered laugh.
He let go her hand and sank back on his pillows with a smothered groan.
She smothered a tiny yawn and wondered why he was so tedious.
O Fate, why dost thou strike in man the spark of a love which must be smothered in his own heart's blood?
Victor wept for fear and for joy beside his dumb father, but he passionately smothered every drop that might disturb him.
The Bridaus are well received, they get small presents, and are smothered with attentions, and the end of it is they will sing our praises; they will go away satisfied and leave us in peace.
Desroches went away, smothered with blessings from the two poor widows and Joseph.
