Small white fingers traced something rapidly on the slate, which was then given to a young lady, who, on the perusal of its characters, gave a stifled laugh, and buried her face in a handkerchief.
The truth of thy sailor Should lessen thy wo: The wave could not chill it That stifled his breath; Pure love--can aught kill it?
I stifled my vexation in the anticipation of the joy that lay before me, which would be victory enough over the impotent hatred of Mephistophiles.
He looked about him at the spacious room, with its heavy hangings of damask and the thick velvet carpet which stifled his steps.
She stifled a slight yawn as she drew herself languidly to her feet.
But the sound of stifled sobs causes him to turn his head.
Her face suddenly became white as death; all she was capable of uttering was a stifled moan: "My God!
She looked him in the face with a low, stifled murmur of pain and sorrow to behold him thus obdurate.
Out of the sea of blackness came stifled sighs and moans; from an invisible tent was heard something that sounded like the groan of a dying man, the fitful dream of some tired soldier.
They had abandoned all hope of tidings, and when Jean declared his settled purpose to be gone, Henriette only gave utterance to this stifled cry of despair: "My God!
Some thought they could still see a far-off glimmer, others that they could hear a stifled cry, when the less fortunate or the less imaginative could hear or see nothing.
The two women were silent for a while--the one gazing with dry eyes but tender yearning face upon the other, as she rocked herself to and fro, and shook with stifled sobs.
Genevieve, as a soft thud threw the other girls intostifled laughter.
Ah, only too well," sighed Egon, who even now felt quite stifled with the remembrance of the endless lecture which he had had to endure at that time.
He held it for a moment, then the young girl threw herself back upon the cushion with a stifled sob, and the carriage rolled away.
On the contrary, I rejoiced, in my stern and mistaken pride, to think that I had forever stifled that weakness in my heart, and that I was alone to feel, or to suffer in this nether world.
The sound of our stifledsobs mingled with the sobbing of the water on the sand.
Once she stifled a scream at the rush of hoof-beats and the scatter of gravel along the road, but the commotion went by in hot haste and silence closed down again.
One could see that only the effect of acknowledged discipline stifled his longing to leap at the throat of Jim Towers.
With a slow and stifled outcry, at the apparition, she carried her hands to her face, then broke into convulsive sobs.
Through the silence of the night are heard groans, stifled cries of anguish and pain, and heartrending voices calling for help.
Lighted by the pale flare of the tar torches, the mass of men seems to hold its breath to listen to the groans and the stifled complaints which reach their ears.
Her heart seemed to have ceased its feeble beat; the breath stifled her with hot gasps.
And he drew his bow gandiva, aimed his dart with stifled breath, Vengeance for his murdered hero winged the fatal dart of death!
But if Marshall cherished the ambition to continue as Secretary of State, as seems likely, he finally stifled it and stood aloof from the struggle.
If to laugh be permissible, if it be French to laugh amid the worst trials, how much more justifiable is laughter when it becomes a weapon against hypocrisy, a weapon employed for the vindication of stifled common sense!
Fear, corruption, lack of determination, stifled all attempts at revolt.
Hitherto he had stifled his revenge for want of a proper opportunity of executing it; but it blazed openly on occasion of this decree of the States, which he considered as Barnevelt's act.
Freedom seemed stifledforever when Arminius led his forces against the Roman hosts in the forest of Teutoburgium.
After having dispersed some rebellious meetings and stifled the germs of an insurrection, Caesar believed that the summer would pass without any serious war.
A flag waved dazzlingly before his eyes; its folds stifled him.
She dared not linger with him lest the stifled pain at her heart should clamor for expression too urgently to be denied.
They found a not unlovely church, half stifled between tall buildings, and were married by a curate whose reading of the service was sufficiently reverent.
The housestifled him with its teeming feminine life.
