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Updated: September 13, 2025
If any member of his unknown and widely scattered family reached the dignity of being considered the flower of the clan, no stretch of imagination or the truth on the part of his acquaintances and they were numerous ever awarded that distinction to Muffles. He might have been a weed, but he was never a flower.
While Muffles shaved and the group about him discussed the several ways some of them rather shady, I'm afraid in which they and their constituents earned their daily bread, the stable-boy he was a street waif, picked up to keep him from starving served the beverages.
This last sobriquet he earned as a boy among his fellow wharf-rats, by reason of an extreme lightness of foot attended by an equally noiseless step, particularly noticeable when escaping from some guardian of the peace who had suddenly detected him raiding an apple-stand not his own, or in depleting a heap of peanuts the property of some gentleman of foreign birth, or in making off with a just-emptied ash-barrel Muffles did the emptying on the eve of an election.
"I know, but it is so difficult for him to find his way through the snow," she said. "He told me it muffles sounds until he is almost helpless in it. His feet can't feel the ground, and he doesn't know which way to turn." "He cannot possibly go far, and he cannot get lost." Philip's tone was becoming a little edged. "All the same, it worries me to have him out this way."
"And you," retorted Barnabas, "have sighed three times." "No, did I though? why then, to be candid, I detest saying 'Good-by! and I have been devoutly wishing for two pair of muffles, for, sir, I have taken a prodigious liking to you but " "But?" inquired Barnabas.
He is at the Cafe Ney. Yet she has often slipped out with him to the "bals de minuit." A friend can replace him; servants keep each others' secrets. Victory! She must see him at once. Yes, Jules will guide her. He can go to the bank, after she has received her money. And then the double payment and vengeance on madame! Like lightning, she muffles herself for the voyage.
The sun must travel far and be risen high to reach it; but when it does, its rays pour down from near the zenith and are most powerful and warm; then in a little while the whole valley is green again and a white mist, rising from it, muffles the face of the sun. Oh, Georgiana! Georgiana! Do not fade away from me as I draw you to me.
The proprietor was leaning against the counter playing with his watch-chain a short man with a bald head. A few guests were sitting about, reading or smoking. "What's become of Mulford," I asked; "Dick Mulford, who used to be here?" The man shook his head. "Why, yes, you must have known him some of his friends called him Muffles." The man continued to shake his head.
The electric furnace at Niagara Falls has been able to produce still another combination in the form of siloxicon by heating carbon and silicon to a temperature slightly below that required to produce carborundum. This product is a highly refractory material and is valuable for the manufacture of crucibles, muffles, bricks, etc., for work where extreme temperatures are employed.
The place was empty except for some scant few persons grouped about a stage whereon two fellows, naked to the waist, their fists swathed in what I believe are termed 'muffles', dodged and ducked, feinted or smote each other with great spirit and gusto until one of them, reeling from a flush hit, sat down with sudden violence and remained in this posture to blink and get his breath.
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