Suddenly the howls stop, and we are conscious of the death-like stillness which prevails when falling snow stifles every sound.
This conduct becomes men in whom Almighty interest stifles humanity, sincerity, and modesty.
Whence it appears, that this pretended virtue only degrades and debases man in his own eyes, deprives him of all energy, and stifles in him every desire of rendering himself useful to society.
Both fore-and hind-legs should be carried straight forward in travelling, the stiflesnot turned outwards.
Very muscular about the thighs, stiflesand hocks well bent, the latter well let down.
A strong back, loin, and well-bent stifles are qualifications of the Gordon.
Every Master of Foxhounds insists on legs as straight as an arrow and very strong; size of bone at knees and stifles being specially regarded as important.
First and second thighs well covered with muscle; hocks strong and good; stifles broad.
It stifles me staying indoors all day; I have never been used to it.
Let us remember the inarticulateness of ritualism, how it stifles rather than utters the feelings of the heart.
It stifles Love; for how dare she continue to speak when she is mistaken for something else?
They breathed that air which intoxicates, before it turns heavy with calamity and stifles the whole being; by which none ever thrived, though many have sought nourishment in daring draughts of it.
It can't be pleasant inhaling air that chills or stifles you.
Always condescending about my authorship, he stifles a sigh, the sigh of a lazy reader, sits down in an armchair and begins upon it.
But now when you have grown older, at this moment when the boy is dying, your lying stifles me!
Are emptied point-blank in the hearts of the foe: It is green against green, but a principle stifles The Irishman's love in the Georgian's blow.
Then swung the keen sabres And flashed the sure rifles Their message that stifles The shout in red throats, While the reckless blue-coats Laughed on 'mid the fray as men laugh over trifles.
Whatever degrades the laborer and robs him of the fruits of his toil stifles the spirit of invention and forbids the utilization of inventions and discoveries even when made.
All men do; all men are better than this disguise that grows about and stifles them.
The quarters must needs be full, high set on, with straight crupper, well rounded muscular buttocks, a clean channel, with big stifles and thighs to carry them.
Instincts all express themselves through the body; therefore education which stifles bodily activities, stifles instincts, and so prevents the natural method of learning.
This macrocosmos both brings to light and stifles the character peculiarities of the microcosmos and the character of no man, as we see or know it, ever expresses in any complete manner his innate possibilities.
We love our work but hate its tyranny, and even the ideal that we cherish, when we examine it too closely, seems overconventionalized, not enough our own, and it stifles and martyrs too many unpleasant desires.
If you do not let it respire freely, it stifles or becomes weakened in the midst of those who are disposed to its exercise.
Moreover, it stifles self-respect, awakening in its stead a rancorous spirit of hostility to those of opposite character.
There is something in their looks, not of vengeance or submission, but of hard necessity, which stifles both; which chokes all utterance; which has no aim or method.
Ang maung baláud nagpug-uk sa átung nasudnun nga pag-uswag, Such a law stifles the progress of our nation.
The contempt of injurious words stifles them, but resentment revives them.
It handicaps efforts, stifles aspirations, shuts the door upon emulation, turns the key upon energy.
While pretending to instruct and enlighten men, Religion in reality keeps them in ignorance, and stifles the desire of knowing the most interesting objects.
In a word, the conscience of the credulous is directed by men, who have themselves an erroneous conscience, or whose intereststifles knowledge.
Science is a queen whose gait should be frank and free:--the atmosphere of the /coterie/ stifles her.
That colossus needs the open air, he stifles under the roof of a Palace and his disproportion to everything around him is shocking.
History demonstrates that a military Government stifles the finer instincts of the people which support it.
But you must take into consideration that avarice almost invariably stifles all other passions, and the renunciation is less difficult to a miser than to another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stifles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
