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But, oh, thank God! he is missing at the front, in the front." The abashed craven turned his hand to Flora, but with a gentle promptness Anna stepped between: "No, Flora dear, see; he hasn't a red scratch on him. Oh, sir, go eat! If hunger stifles courage, eat! But eat as you ride, and ride like mad back to duty and honor!
He asked me if I thought it wise to try my nerves so soon again with the electric light." "And I hope you told him he was talking nonsense," Bell said, hastily. "There, let us change the subject. The mere mention of that man's name stifles me." Morning brought a long letter from Chris Henson to David, giving him in detail the result of her recent interview with John Rawlins.
Of course we wish it, wish it with a pathetic urgency which is too poignant to bear, and which the wise man bravely stifles. It would all be different if we knew. LECTOR. But does not science even, of late, hold out the promise of its probability? and the greatest poets and thinkers have always been convinced of its truth. SCRIPTOR. The promise of a probability!
Your ironical attitude to life, or whatever you like to call it, is your armour; and your thought, fettered and frightened, dare not leap over the fence you have put round it; and when you jeer at ideas which you pretend to know all about, you are like the deserter fleeing from the field of battle, and, to stifle his shame, sneering at war and at valour. Cynicism stifles pain.
It is a horrible instrument of oppression and tyranny, ready-made for all hands, suitable for every despotism, and under it France stifles and wastes away.
"Believe me, there is but one sorrow that may not be borne, may not be conquered, and that is poverty, which is a corroding, consuming malady, annihilating body, and soul, swifter and surer than the most subtle poison. It stifles all noble feelings, all poetical thoughts and great deeds, and, believe me, love even cannot resist its terrible power. One day you will understand this.
Party spirit is hostile to moral purity. As one becomes filled with the spirit of party, to that extent does he surrender the freedom of a man. He can neither think nor speak impartially. He stifles the convictions of conscience and shouts the shibboleth of party. With him the triumph of party is infinitely dearer than the maintenance of principle.
Alas! for the society which stifles in after-life too many of your better feelings, by making you mere flunkeys and parasites, dependent for your livelihood on the caprices and luxuries of the rich.
"To come from that house, with its assertions of money you can hear it chink; you can smell the foul old banknotes; it stifles you into an atmosphere like this, is like coming into another world." "Thank you," said Alma. "I'm glad there isn't that unpleasant odor here; but I wish there was a little more of the chinking." "No, no! Don't say that!" he implored.
Such men are walking coffins, each containing a Frenchman of the past; now and again the Frenchman wakes up and kicks against his English-made casing; but ambition stifles him, and he submits to be smothered. The coffin is always covered with black cloth. "Ah, here is my brother!" said Baron Hulot, going to meet the Count at the drawing-room door.
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