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Updated: May 19, 2025
Moreover, although Jan had not confessed it at the time, the blanket while in process of locomotion had for some unfathomable reason dragged in its wake all the other bedclothes, freeing them from their moorings and submerging his head in a smothering weight of disorganized sheets and counterpanes only to leave his poor shivering body a prey to the unfriendly elements.
He is true to you, I am sure." "True to me, Madge! How can he be true to me if she coaxes him to woo her and if he puts his arm I am losing him; I know it. I I O God, Madge, I am smothering; I am strangling! Holy Virgin! I believe I am about to die."
'Indeed I cannot, my honest friend, said I; 'and if you will go with me to a house hard by, I would be glad to have a night with you. Here I looked round, and observed Benjie smothering a laugh, which I was sure had mischief in it.
Some had puncheon floors, with an earthen hearth in the middle, whereupon was placed a furnace of loose brick that could be kicked over at need, smothering an outbreaking fire. Still others had big cast iron kettles sunk in a sort of well in the floor with a handy water bucket for quenching fires.
With her ermine, her ostrich feathers, her smile, and her scented powder, she impressed Laura less as extinguishing her by the splendour of a presence than as smothering her in the softness of an effect. For it was at Laura that, after the first gently enquiring glance, she levelled her words as well as her caressing look.
Dis yer stewin' him up in pote wine is scand'lous. Can't taste nuffin' but de wine. But dat's tar'pin." I followed Chad's directions to the word, picking the terrapin as I would a crab and smothering the dainty bits in the hot sauce, until only two empty shells and a heap of little bones were left to tell the tale of my appetite. "Gwine to crawl ober de fence, was ye?"
They romped and played in the stuff like children in sand or snow diving, smothering themselves, plunging, choking, turning somersaults, upsetting each other's carefully reared loads, and leaping over little pyramids of gold. Then, in a flash, their laughter turned the destroyed heaps into wonderful new patterns again; and once more they turned sober and began to work.
The day before it had knocked at his door and found him in. There was still Sunday-school to be endured, but he did not regard this as altogether odious. It was not so smothering. The atmosphere was less strained. One's personality could come a bit to the front without incurring penalties, and one met one's own kind on a social plane subject to discipline, it was true, but still mildly enjoyable.
The artillery were assembling as if for a conference. The blue haze of evening was upon the field. The lines of forest were long purple shadows. One cloud lay along the western sky partly smothering the red. As the youth left the scene behind him, he heard the guns suddenly roar out. He imagined them shaking in black rage. They belched and howled like brass devils guarding a gate.
'Oh, take the poor beggar, said Wilfrid; and sang out to him in Italian: 'Who are you what are you, my fine fellow? Barto groaned louder, and replied in Swiss-French from a smothering depth: 'A poor man, and the gracious lady's servant till we reach Milan. 'I can't wait, said Wilfrid; 'I start in half-an-hour.
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