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Updated: May 13, 2025
This was all I could see, his back being to the light, such as it was. I gave a smothered shriek, and would have shut the door on him; but he said, 'Not so hasty, mistress look at me again, and you will not turn me away, I think.
A little sob, quickly smothered, came from Winifred, but his mother sat unmoving with her eyes fixed on James. Soames signed to the nurse. "Where's the doctor?" he whispered. "He's been sent for." "Can't you do anything to ease his breathing?" "Only an injection; and he can't stand it. The doctor said, while he was fighting...." "He's not fighting," whispered Soames, "he's being slowly smothered.
And the involved reply, spoken with lips against the earth, the head but slightly turned as he knelt, again smothered the words. Only the curious phrase came to him "de l'ancien monde quelque-chose " The Irishman took him by the shoulders.
A score of hands caught them, coats smothered Dennis's burning clothes, and the man he had rescued was carried across the street and laid upon the pavement. "Great glory, it's Marchand! It's Felix Marchand!" someone shouted. "Is he dead?" asked another. "Dead drunk," was the comment of Osterhaut, who had helped to carry him across the street. At that moment Ingolby appeared on the scene.
"There is no news like that," he said slowly. "The guests who have come to Dynevor are English themselves." "English!" echoed Llewelyn fiercely, and he turned away with a smothered word which sounded like an imprecation upon all the race of foreigners; whilst Howel asked with quick indignation: "What right have English guests at Dynevor? Why were they received?
Perhaps I should if I were using the biplane, but a monoplane is a one-man show if you want to get the last foot of life out of it. Of course, I took an oxygen bag; the man who goes for the altitude record without one will either be frozen or smothered or both. "I had a good look at the planes, the rudder-bar, and the elevating lever before I got in. Everything was in order so far as I could see.
On returning from one of these excursions, as she rolled up her sleeves again, she said: "Betty, we must open the other window if it is cold. Mamma thought she smelled roast turkey!" Betty burst into a laugh which she smothered in her apron.
The sound of her weak, eager voice was silent presently, and nothing broke the solitary cold of the night. The morning, when it came long after, came quiet and cool, the warm red dawn helplessly smothered under great waves of gray cloud. Margret, looking out into the thick fog, lay down wearily again, closing her eyes. What was the day to her? Very slowly the night was driven back.
From across the river came the thunder of a train, bound north, two engines dragging forty cars of freight piled up by some recent traffic-jam; it plunged into a tunnel, and they waited, listening to the monster's smothered roar.
In affairs of public interest we often know, or fancy that we know, down to every exact detail, how a thing has been done, who have given the bribes and who have taken them, who has told the lie and who has pretended to believe it, who has peculated and how the public purse has suffered, who was in love with such a one's wife and how the matter was detected, then smothered up, and condoned; but there is no official knowledge, and nothing can be done.
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