Held in check with difficulty.
1 The answer was slow and smothered ; and, of course, in the negative.
2 Plain dresses simply do not exist; everything is smothered with elaborate decoration.
3 Gradually it brightened and a smothered sob found place in the roses.
4 At times, she seemed smothered by the number of her charges, too.
5 I stopped, my dim spark of curiosity smothered by my common sense.
6 She heard their snarls, and beneath, the smothered whimpers of their victims.
7 Everything is smothered in the litter that is fated to accompany it.
8 But after we went to the farm I was smothered in ease.
9 In the tower, partially smothered by the storm, vibrated a shrill cry.
10 There is always a smothered hatred of the uniform and the flag.
11 And there was a rim all smothered in diamonds and blue stones.
12 The house lay silent, half smothered in a dark tangle of shrubbery.
13 But resolutely she smothered the sparks and bolstered up the pitiful lie.
14 No one else could have-But he smothered the wail in kisses.
15 That watchfullest showing no alarm, the absurdity of the suspicion smothered it.
16 But his voice was smothered by the shouts of the advancing multitude.
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