The bees and wasps circled busily around humming in the stifling atmosphere.

The freshness of Virgil was interpreted in the stifling atmosphere of a prison.

In spite of the stifling atmosphere, our senses were wide awake.

A delicate woman near me swooned in the stifling atmosphere.

Have I your permission to occupy it, and leave this stifling atmosphere of love?

For two long hours the Englishman waited there, fretting and fuming, in that stifling atmosphere.

José and I lay under an awning, though this was no protection from the stifling atmosphere.

And so I left the bar-room, glad to escape from its stifling atmosphere and revolting scenes.

And after another moment, still unable to bear the stifling atmosphere of his room, she retreated into the hallway.

The heat of the day did not abate, and the men in the tents complained of the stifling atmosphere inside.

What a contrast to London at night, where many a poor fellow must be tossing restlessly in the stifling atmosphere!

He found her in her boudoir in a stifling atmosphere of burning incense, with curtains drawn to produce a mysterious twilight.

The hospital tent, the silent row of wounded men, the stifling atmosphere, the flies, all were gone from his inner vision.

As they proceeded, a smell came toward them, a smell that became ever more awful in the hot, moist, stifling atmosphere.

In the stifling atmosphere of these cave-dwellings it is by no means rare to see big children almost, if not absolutely, naked.

He breathed the atmosphere of the day of toil, a hot, stifling atmosphere, heavy with the odor of boiled talc and varnish.