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"Because of the fifteen shillings and the five," they said solemnly. "Fifteen shillings and five shillings make one pound, you see." "But I don't see " They tried to stifle her with cake. "No, thank you. I'm done. I don't see why Freddy, don't poke me. Miss Honeychurch, your brother's hurting me. Ow! What about Mr. Floyd's ten shillings? Ow!
The democratic element was expanding itself in the republic so rapidly as to stifle for a time the oligarchical principle which might one day be developed out of the same matrix; while, despite the hardy and adventurous spirit which characterised the English nation throughout all its grades, there was never a more intensely aristocratic influence in the world than the governing and directing spirit of the England of that age.
A modern poet, a man like De Musset, Victor Hugo, Lamartine, or Heine, graduated from a college and traveled, wearing a dress-coat and gloves, favored by ladies, bowing fifty times and uttering a dozen witticisms in an evening, reading daily newspapers, generally occupying an apartment on the second story, not over-cheerful on account of his nerves, and especially because, in this dense democracy in which we stifle each other, the discredit of official rank exaggerates his pretensions by raising his importance, and, owing to the delicacy of his personal sensations, leading him to regard himself as a Deity.
Marcia opened the door long enough to call back, "Oh, only the old blue-edged platter, mother!" and then she flew at Bartley, crying, "For shame! For shame!" and pressing her hand over his mouth to stifle his laughter. "She'll hear you, Bartley, and think you're laughing at her."
For the next fifteen minutes I was busy hugging a bridge stanchion, dodging flying wreckage and trying to breathe; for, driven by the violence of the wind, the rain came horizontally in such suffocatingly hot dense masses as nearly to stifle one. It was the watch of Second Mate Isitt.
I thanked him; he drove off; I turned and accepted the invitation which was presented by Sophronia's outstretched arms. "Oh, Pierre!" she exclaimed; "at last we are in our own home! No uncongenial spirits about us no one to molest or annoy no unsympathetic souls to stifle our ardent passion for Nature and the work of her free, divine hands."
I’m not worrying about that. But I’d like to live to see Tammany a dead cock in the pit!" Gray forced a laugh; Vail laughed unfeignedly, and then, solemn again, said: "I’d like to live to see this country aspire to something really noble." "After all," said Gray, "there is really nothing to stifle aspiration."
His troublesome conscience, stirred by Seth's reference to swimming, was again in full working order. He tried to stifle its reproaches, tried to give his entire attention to his labors about the lights and in the kitchen, but the consciousness of guilt was too strong. He felt mean and traitorous, a Benedict Arnold on a small scale.
"I know well enough," said Ramorny, "that the rumour may stifle the truth for a short time. But what avails this brief delay?" "It may be concealed till your knighthood retires for a time from the court, and then, when new accidents have darkened the recollection of the present stir, it may be imputed to a wound received from the shivering of a spear, or from a crossbow bolt.
It was clear that he must not now suffer passively, worrying himself over unsolved questions, but that he must do something, do it at once, and do it quickly. Anyway he must decide on something, or else... "Or throw up life altogether!" he cried suddenly, in a frenzy "accept one's lot humbly as it is, once for all and stifle everything in oneself, giving up all claim to activity, life and love!"
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