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Updated: July 11, 2025
"I can play no more," she said. "Forgive me I am quite unequal to it. My head burns! my heart stifles me!" She began to pace the room again.
How continually, while one of those small private tragedies that I have spoken of is being enacted within, the actors are called upon to meet some other tragedy from without, so that external energy counteracts inward emotion, and holy sympathy with another's sufferings stifles all personal pain.
The demon stifles, in the heart of Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, all the passions that can agitate a human soul, ambition, pity, evil, and anger; this operation makes Ivan an absolutely perfect being. On his face there appears that beatitude which words cannot express. The devil has crushed all "substance" out of him, and he is completely "empty." This was preceded by a story called "The Devil."
The carriages are stuffy and unclean, and during the whole journey one stifles in an opaque atmosphere of grit mixed with the sweepings of the ages.
First of all it was pretended that the nurse whom I took the trouble to choose wasn't healthy. Well, then a second nurse is engaged, and she gets drunk and stifles the child. And now, I suppose, we are to have a third, some other vile creature who will prey on us and drive us mad. No, no, it's too exasperating, I won't have it." Valentine, her fears now calmed, became aggressive.
Only on this condition will they succeed in emancipating themselves from the yoke of the State, of Capital, and of the bourgeois mediocrity which stifles them. What means has the scientist of to-day to make researches that interest him?
"Mill work never used you up," he said slowly. "It's not work, sir. It's been right hot in town, and you know the city a ways stifles me." "Umph!" said Markham. After Matilda had gone to bed that evening Levi sat on the broad piazza with Sandy, while a late yellow-red moon rode majestically in the sky and lighted the dew-touched meadow land. "Looks hot," Levi murmured; "hot and dry."
"To work like this is not penance, but suicide. I'll speak to the Father, and he'll " "Don't; for mercy's sake, don't! Have some pity, at all events! If you only knew what a good thing work is for me how it drives away thoughts, and stifles " "But it's so useless, Brother Paul. Look! The snow is still falling, and there's more to come yet." "All the same, it's good for me.
"I feel," replied he, "but one regret, and that will end only with my life;" as he said this he pressed his clenched fists upon his bosom, drew his breath through his set teeth, and added with deep emotion, "I have something within here that stifles me; it is like a burning iron consuming my very heart. I could tell you a miserable story, but not now another time."
For any concern of mine he might have as many grandchildren as there are evil tongues in Alexandria, were it not that just at this time it is of the utmost importance to remove everything which might cast a shadow on the Queen's pathway. I have just come from the palace of the royal children at Lochias, and what I learned there. But that I will not, I cannot believe it. It fairly stifles me!"
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