All the servants at length withdrew to attend to their respective duties, while the man too, who had been flogged, walked away, as he did all he could to conceal his shame and stifle his tears.
Hsi Jen, smiling, as she tried to stifle her blushes, "and whence comes all this perspiration?
There can be little doubt that in the last age of the Republic a negative philosophy conspired with a decaying religious sense to stifle the hope of immortality among the cultivated class.
A thick atmosphere of gloom and foreboding seems to stifle us as we turn his pages.
Winton entered again that house in Mount Street with an emotion, to stifle which required more courage than any cavalry charge.
God knows she tried tostifle her pride, her suspicion, her jealousy!
As well try to extinguish in full June the beating of the heart of summer; deny to the flowers their deepening hues, or to winged life its slumbrous buzzing, as stifle in such a lover his conviction of fulfilment.
Why stifle his powers for the sake of a coherence which did not exist!
Stifle not the suggestions of your better nature with the stale evasion, that an indiscriminate admission would expose the Tombs to violation.
Morpheus willstifle Cocker with a handful of poppies, and our pillows will be no longer haunted by the book of numbers.
Millicent, as she paced her room, her hands crossed heavily upon her breast, as if to stifle some tangible spark with their weight.
Then went on bitterly and gloomily, while she clasped her hands tightly together over her bosom as if to check the tumult within, and stifle the sobs that shook her.
I have never reproached you; or, at least, I have striven to stifle all ill-feeling.
Sure of the superiority of her capital and labor, does she not call in free competition to stifle the industry of the continent, reign as a sovereign, and conquer the privilege of feeding and clothing the ruined peoples?
No; self-interest, which founded it, will one day destroy it, provided the special interests which have created it do not stifle those general interests which tend to overthrow it.
First love is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy be allowed to overflow, it will stifle you.
But not being able to stifle her, she smiled upon her.
The hunt consummated, the hunters flung themselves on the unresisting, and as though tostifle the smallest spark of pity, redoubled their fury and their cries.
So she fled from herself, trying to stifle that immense emotion to which she had no right,--so fraught with peril.
Let your pity stiflethe emotions of indignation or grief, and return me such an answer as may tend to reconcile me to the vow which, whether difficult or easy, must not be broken.
I was obliged to stifle a laugh which this whimsical proposal excited.
They realize that a parson is a man of like predilections and impulses and weaknesses with themselves, and that a cassock does not stifle the natural and healthy ambitions of the male mammal.
Because devotion to one cause does not stifle natural aspirations in another.
A flush of red dyed her face; her blood, racing through her veins, seemed tostifle her.
In the dining-room, her head bowed dejectedly on the table, Helene strove to stifle her sobs with her clasped hands.
The constant tapping of the divers outside was a cheering sound, and brought hope to those of us who, in the steadily increasing stifle of the atmosphere, were now breathing hard to live.
It can be understood only when we remember that the German Government did everything in its power not only to create hatred, but also to stifle every voice that was raised to let the people know the truth.
All day long he had tried to stifle the cry of that same famine, that same hunger of unplaced energy, by industrious work.
But she sought resolutely to stifle its crying, strong in faith and hope.
She had much ado to stifle the laughter which bubbled up in her pretty throat.
For they were harsh conclusions, causing him to cower down in the bed, and bury his face in the pillows to stifle the sound of the tearing sobs which would come.
To support herself, she rested one hand on the block he had been carving, while she pressed the other against her heart, as though to stifle pain.
Its coarse, foul atmosphere willstifle and contaminate you.
He wanted something to stifle the keen reproaches of conscience.
O that I could stifle the upbraidings of this cruel monitor.
With fraternal hands he had quickly taken hold of her head, and he was endeavouring to stifle the cry of her rebellion.
Only, this time, it did not linger there, did not stifle her, but burst from her open mouth, and flew away in a cry of sublime joy.
She stammered words which he did not catch and which she seemed tostifle between her lips lest he should hear them; and, having spent all her energy, exhausted, she fell back unconscious.
Then, with the tongs, he pulled it out of the grate and threw the table cloth over it to stifle the blaze.
Though I was prepared for death, that in itself will not stifle one's zest for life as long as there is something to live for.
Did she stifle every wish to shine at his expense, to be affable when he was not so, to seem to attend to matters which he neglected?
Till he is entirely at his ease with any one, he can restrain himself, and even stifle his impatience and his inclination to anger, in order to appear gentle and amiable.
On this occasion he could not quite stifle his curiosity.
As she drove there, she tried to stifle thought, for she knew that her design was to confirm or dispel a suspicion that should never have been hers.
Tormented by thoughts on which we need not dwell, he resolved nevertheless to remain at home, stifle his anxiety as he might, and await the promised intelligence from the old man.
I know well enough," said Ramorny, "that the rumour may stifle the truth for a short time.
We was moved to the point of being almost out of countenance; and took snuff repeatedly, as if to gain time to stifle some degree of emotion.
The cry for happiness is so natural to the human heart, that it takes long oppression to stifle it.
Now, now, the fire bit her, and she could not stifle it; and a grave doubt came over her whether even that expedient of marriage might be found able to stifle it.
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