I pity you for having to go down before your time into these black, stifling woods that rise up to smother you like giants--and not into your own broad, cool Atlantic, laughing up your own sparkles of light.
Gaston, stifling an exclamation, cut it off, unscrewed the cap of the tank, and measured the gasolene.
He could at least try to absorb himself in his work, for the sake of stifling his own thoughts even more than for distracting them from what Frank said.
And then suddenly his heart hammered and stood still, and out of his brain were driven all the thoughts and suspicions that he had been stifling all day.
Madge was eagerly watching him, when once again the faint stifling sensation swept over her.
I came out into the garden,--the house seemed so hot and stifling to-night, and I have been sitting in close cottages all day.
Strong now in his intention, he drew a hotstifling breath, set his teeth and ran for a few yards; then staggered a few more, growing blind, and feeling that his senses were fast leaving him.
He had the ideas and feelings of a man, and the weight of them was stifling him as, like his complaint, they developed and became more acute.
A stifling sensation made her pause, and she became livid.
The stifling heat of the carriage had made him dizzy, the sight of all the woe heaped up there caused his heart to bleed with pity.
In this wise the assault would continue for more than another hour, and again would the different courses of the menu appear in procession, to be engulfed amidst the crunching of jaws, the stifling heat, and the growing nausea.
And he thought, too, of that other room where Madame Volmar's friend was now alone, stifling his sobs with his lips pressed upon a pair of gloves which he had stolen from her.
On the very threshold Pierre felt oppressed by the stifling heat emanating from the multitude of bodies, the dense pestilential smell of human breath and perspiration.
He raised his arms to heaven, he was stifling with envy and vexation.
And it was a sight to see them, all almost equally affected by the tepid odour of the wax, half stifling in the heavy tabernacle air which gathered beneath the rocky vault, and lowering their eyes for fear of slipping on the gratings.
Their voices were lost amid the loud rumbling of the wheels; you heard but the muffled surging of that human wave, stifling within the closed carriage which rolled on and on without a pause.
The heat was still increasing, and the occupants of the carriage were stifling in that heavy evil-smelling atmosphere.
The thought of now losing her gave him seasons of stifling sobs.
One could gradually see this new formation relegating to the shadow of the past the old spirit of independence, andstifling the confused aspirations of the country towards any legal liberties.
He convicts us of stifling and repressing the imagination of our pupils.
Stifling an inclination to assault him, I laughed pleasantly and related my meeting with the engaging Spaniard.
The velvet veil of silence we rent in twain; but as we tore it, the folds fell back to hang like mighty curtains about our path, stifling all echo, striking reverberation dumb.
To leave a country with some of its best things unvisited is an open invitation to return,--which theory may be good philosophy, but is not wholly adequate in stifling regrets.
It is directed against such an aggregation of capital only when its purpose is that of stifling competition, enhancing or controlling prices, and establishing a monopoly.
Stifling an occasional yawn herself, she read on and on.
The stitches were long and strong, and as each one yielded, the feathers burst forth in stifling puffs, and Tomsy Flood's allusions to the young McRorys were mercifully merged in sputtering.
But this is far from being the case; and the New Yorker may well leave the stifling heat of his own city in summer for the tonic breezes of the Mexican uplands, just as he may winter there to avoid the bitter winter of New York.
The gruesome place weighed rather upon me, I confess, silent and stifling as it was, but having come to explore I proceeded to excavate lightly in the yielding material of the floor with a light pick.
It was merely that one night when the time came for turning into that stifling inferno which he still dreaded with all his soul, he literally took his courage in his hands.
He merely led Henry Harper back to the galley by the ear, gave his arm a ferocious twist which made the boy gasp, and then sent him flying head-first into the stiflingdarkness of the manhole with the help of a well-timed boot.
However, the boy fell asleep unexpectedly, and was presently awakened in a stifling darkness by a sudden awful and incredible sound of rushing and tearing.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
Christians were cast to the lions, but the Christian church grew up a stately and spreading tree, overtopping the older and less vigorous growths, and stifling them by its shade.
He seemed desirous ofstifling thought by repletion.
Water sprinkled on a large brick stove or on heated rocks provides the steam for these baths, which are stifling on first trial but soon become a pleasing habit.
On a stifling night early in July the residents of Bismarck were awakened from their sleep by loud sounds of shouting, of wagons and horses moving, at the river.
The spacious hall of the Fifth Avenue Hotel has shrunk to stifling proportions.
Jacques, who felt stifling in his narrow room, opened the window to breathe a little.
