Smothering a cry of joy, he turned and at once withdrew, muttering to himself: "Lord, how light my heart feels!
But the same strength of will that rushed to his aid in smothering the yell also quieted his agitation and restored his confidence.
Its shadow bore heavily upon her oppressed spirits, smothering by its weight the stifled cry of her heart's anguish.
The wanderer Holding his forehead to keep off the burr Of smothering fancies.
In rhythm they are vital and varied enough, in style extremely high-pitched, and they resemble much Elizabethan work of the second order in smothering action and passion under a redundance and feverish excess of poetry.
Then, without warning, a smothering fur robe had been thrown over him and he was lifted up in strong arms and carried away.
Under the smothering darkness that now had descended upon the land, time passed as if the hours were days, the weeks months, and a month a year.
Still holding that hand before his mouth, and smothering the sound of his feet in the long grass, he crept away.
His acquaintance with her had been like a day that breaks in silent and cloudless light, and is shut in by a cold and smothering fog before its noon.
Three times during the next month the wind came roaring down out of the northwest, bringing a gray dust that filled the sky and enveloped the land in a hot, smothering gloom through which the suns could not be seen.
Lake spoke, his tone grim and bitter: "There is no power for the air regenerators and within twenty hours we will start smothering to death.
It had the smothering quality that is so mysterious.
Northrup again had difficulty insmothering his laugh, but Maclin's next move surprised and sobered him.
Its light flickered in a sickly, yellow glow over the straight-backed chairs, across the unpapered walls, and dribbled feebly upwards to where the heavy rafters of the ceiling were obliterated in a smothering thickness of shadows.
Fought with the darkness shutting down on him and that putrid odor smothering his breathing.
For a moment he fought against the smothering oppression of the thing he hated; for a second the same struggle against its stifling weight.
He remembered that if he told Efferts of that thing that he had come so near forgetting in the smothering quiet that he would have what he so frantically wanted.
For some seconds past Mignon had been renewing his jokes and smothering Fauchery with caresses.
Then came Gaga, filling up a whole seat and half smothering La Faloise beside her so that little but his small anxious face was visible.
But when the flags had come in so suddenly--he involuntarily straightened up and took in his breath quickly to relieve the smothering sensation in his throat, and forgot his wrongs in an exaltation of patriotic fervour.
The overflowing, smotheringapprobation which they heaped upon him was loud-mouthed, unceasing, extravagant.
A dark, smothering fear rushed over him--he was a brave man, but this vague, shadowy yet poignant terror seemed to turn his very vitals to water.
This was just at first, before she succeeded in freeing herself from that leaden smothering sense of stupefaction.
Then after many days, each as a thousand years, a voice came through the smothering blackness in her mind.
Sophy's air-castle broke in upon her in smothering vapours.
And then their attention went to Little Mystery, who awoke with a wailing protest at thesmothering cover of blankets over her face.
God bless your dear little heart," he cried, smothering his face in her silken curls.
It was like a clammy hand smothering his heart in its grip, and it made him sick.
And in a moment or two the feeling of that presence seemed to lift the smotheringweight from his heart.
He seemed to see all the gross, smotheringhorror of the scene above, and he set his teeth as he wondered whether he would come too late.
John, I remember it all now—they were smothering me in the dark!
The bed creaked; there was an inarticulate choking as of some one striving to call for help through the smothering folds of a cloak.
I cannot bear it, I cannot bear to die with it—smothering my breath.
I feel as if I were smothering myself," added Pitou.
A great change had come to them both since those days, and Agnes, watching him and smothering back the cry of pain which arose to her lips at sight of him, felt that for the fearful change in him she was answerable.
Byrne ran to the bed and attempted to lift up, to push off the horrible lid smothering the body.
With a prayer on his lips Frank started the Golden Eagle II into the awfulsmothering pall.
After about an hour of traveling Ben, through his smothering blanket, heard the loud barking of dogs and crying of children, and knew that they must be near a settlement of some kind.
Walker, smothering his voice so far as to drown the exact direction in which it came.
With returning fitness I begin to hate, loathe, detest, and abhor this soul-smothering life.
As I have noted, they got me in a beautiful 100-yards bracket, the one crashing into the poor devils in the hospital amid awful yells, and the two nearest getting the end of this building and smothering me with debris.
If it hadn't been for smothering her with the cloak--but the job's done and that's the end of it.
Then one atrocious wrenching, rending, burning,--and the gush of blood burst from lips and nostrils in a smothering deluge.
He knew that some of them must immediately snatch up old brooms, branches off the trees, or any other sort of smothering article they could secure, and proceed to beat out the flames before they reached the threatened buildings.
Hugh did not even wait until all of his bunch had armed themselves with such smothering devices as they could find about the stable.
