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1. She had on a new blue velvet cap with a scarlet rosette in it, a coat of navy blue cloth and a little squirrel-fur muff
2. The new squirrel muff was really the last straw
3. Neither Faith nor Una had ever had a muff, counting themselves lucky if they could compass mittens without holes in them
4. She vaulted lightly to a seat on the pine tree, and laid the offending muff on a bough
5. She looked down at her own rather purple, chapped, little hands and wondered if she would ever, EVER be able to put them into a muff like that
6. "No," said Una, who could not drag her fascinated eyes from that squirrel muff
7. Ain't that a dandy muff? Mrs
8. "Here's some gum for you, Mary," she said, with a little repentant catch in her voice, thrusting all her four knots into Mary's hands, "and I'm glad you have such a pretty muff
9. I could use only one hand, the other so bundled it looked like I was waving a cotton muff around
10. As I did so, I caressed my hand off of Sue’s wonderful muff and caressed
11. I stood up when I got to Sue’s wonderful muff
12. that is commonly known as muff diving
13. my midsection with her wonderful muff pie
14. and cupped Sue’s muff in my hand
15. The red velvet muff and hat were both trimmed with white mink and matched the dress
16. At the appointed hour they knock at the door, and come in attired in the garments they have selected as appropriate (at this last ball the April baby wore my shooting coat, the May baby had a muff, and the June baby carried Seraphine's umbrella), and, curtseying to me, each one makes some remark she thinks suitable to the occasion
17. I can hardly keep my hands warm even in my muff
18. On the second day, when Lily said: "Oh, Annie, do you know where I left my muff?" William replied:
19. "It may do for the Royal Americans!" said Hawkeye, laughing once more in his own silent, heartfelt manner; "but had my gun often turned so much from the true line, many a marten, whose skin is now in a lady's muff, would still be in the woods; ay, and many a bloody Mingo, who has departed to his final account, would be acting his deviltries at this very day, atween the provinces
20. MRS BELLINGHAM: (In cap and seal coney mantle, wrapped up to the nose, steps out of her brougham and scans through tortoiseshell quizzing-glasses which she takes from inside her huge opossum muff) Also to me
21. slipped a couple into my muff when I was playing with them then always hanging out of them for money in a restaurant for the bit you put down your throat we have to be thankful for our mangy cup of tea itself as a great compliment to be noticed the way the world is divided in any case if its going to go on I want at least two other good chemises for one thing and but I dont know what kind of drawers he likes none at all I think didnt he say yes and half the girls in Gibraltar never wore them either naked as God made them that Andalusian singing her Manola she didnt make much secret of what she hadnt yes and the second pair of silkette stockings is laddered after one days wear I could have brought them back to Lewers this morning and kicked up a row and made that one change them only not to upset myself and run the risk of walking into him and ruining the whole thing and one of those kidfitting corsets Id want advertised cheap in the Gentlewoman with elastic gores on the hips he saved the one I have but thats no good what did they say they give a delightful figure line 11/6 obviating that unsightly broad appearance across the lower back to reduce flesh my belly is a bit too big Ill have to knock off the stout at dinner or am I getting too fond of it the last they sent from ORourkes was as flat as a pancake he makes his money easy Larry they call him the old mangy parcel he sent at Xmas a cottage cake and a bottle of hogwash he tried to palm off as claret that he couldnt get anyone to drink God spare his spit for fear hed die of the drouth or I must do a few breathing exercises I wonder is that antifat any good might overdo it the thin ones are not so much the fashion now garters that much I have the violet pair I wore today thats all he bought me out of the cheque he got on the first O no there was the face lotion I finished the last of yesterday that made my skin like new I told him over and over again get that made up in the same place and dont forget it God only knows whether he did after all I said to him 111 know by the bottle anyway if not I suppose 111 only have to wash in my piss like beeftea or chickensoup with some of that opoponax and violet I thought it was beginning to look coarse or old a bit the skin underneath is much finer where it peeled off there on my finger after the burn its a pity it isnt all like that and the four paltry handkerchiefs about 6/- in all sure you cant get on in this world without style all going in food and rent when I get it Ill lash it around I tell you in fine style I always want to throw a handful of tea into the pot measuring and mincing if I buy a pair of old brogues itself do you like those new shoes yes how much were they Ive no clothes at all the brown costume and the skirt and jacket and the one at the cleaners 3 whats that for any woman cutting up this old hat and patching up the other the men wont look at you and women try to walk on you because they know youve no man then with all the things getting dearer every day for the 4 years more I have of life up to 35 no Im what am I at all 111 be 33 in September will I what O well look at that Mrs Galbraith shes much older than me I saw her when I was out last week her beautys on the wane she was a lovely woman magnificent head of hair on her down to her waist tossing it back like that like Kitty OShea in Grantham street 1st thing I did every morning to look across see her combing it as if she loved it and was full of it pity I only got to know her the day before we left and that Mrs Langtry the jersey lily the prince of Wales was in love with I suppose hes like the first man going the roads only for the name of a king theyre all made the one way only a black mans Id like to try a beauty up to what was she 45 there
22. She skated a little uncertainly; taking her hands out of the little muff that hung on a cord, she held them ready for emergency,
23. ‘Thank you,’ she added, as he picked up the handkerchief that had fallen out of her muff
24. The tradition is kept up here that you are the best of skaters,’ she said, with her little black-gloved hand brushing a grain of hoarfrost off her muff
25. She drew one more deep breath of the fresh air, and had just put he hand out of her muff to take hold of the door post and get back into the carriage, when another man in a military overcoat, quite close beside her, stepped between her and the flickering
26. His assistant, a lad Anna did not know, had no sooner opened the door to her than she came in, and pulling a three-rouble note out of her muff put it hurriedly into his hand
27. But it was obvious that the dress, bonnet and muff found no favor with her
28. “What’s the matter, Miss Scarlett? You got a chill?” you mind if I put my hand in your coat pocket? It’s so cold and my muff is soaked “Yes,” she answered helplessly
29. Baggins if you can help it; and in the name of all wonder don't mention the word furrier again as long as you are within a hundred miles of his house, nor, rug, cape, tippet, muff, nor any other such unfortunate word! He is a skin-changer
30. So it's the same with Muff Potter, of course
31. It was Muff Potter
32. A gory knife had been found close to the murdered man, and it had been recognized by somebody as belonging to Muff Potter—so the story ran
33. "Poor fellow!" "Poor young fellow!" "This ought to be a lesson to grave robbers!" "Muff Potter'll hang for this if they catch him!" This was the drift of remark; and the minister said, "It was a judgment; His hand is here
34. "It was within three feet of Muff Potter when it done it
35. Now a witness was called who testified that he found Muff Potter washing in the brook, at an early hour of the morning that the murder was discovered, and that he immediately sneaked away
36. "—and as the doctor fetched the board around and Muff Potter fell, Injun Joe
37. As usual, the fickle, unreasoning world took Muff Potter to its bosom and fondled him as lavishly as it had abused him before
38. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she was—that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her at Longchamps, her hair curled in sustained sentiments, with her come-and-see of turquoises, her gown of the color of persons newly arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young manhood a waistcoat of NainLondrin, which he was fond of talking about effusively
39. "—On the chimney-piece, he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her nude stomach
40. All this is visible to you by the light of an oil lamp hanging from the ceiling, and by that of an excellent fire, near which I sit in my cloak and bonnet; my muff and umbrella lie on the table, and I am warming away the numbness and chill contracted by sixteen hours’ exposure to the rawness of an October day: I left Lowton at four o’clock a
41. I jumped up, took my muff and umbrella, and hastened into the inn-passage: a man was standing by the open door, and in the lamp-lit street I dimly saw a one-horse conveyance
42. I took up my muff and walked on
43. ” She pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob heavily into it
44. When I called to see her in June, 1842, she was gone a-hunting in the woods, as was her wont (I am not sure whether it was a male or female, and so use the more common pronoun), but her mistress told me that she came into the neighborhood a little more than a year before, in April, and was finally taken into their house; that she was of a dark brownish-gray color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming stripes ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose, the under matted like felt, and in the spring these appendages dropped off
45. "Go back to your work, Becky," Miss Amelia had said; but she had stopped to pick up reverently first a muff and then a coat, and while she stood looking at them adoringly, she heard Miss Minchin upon the threshold, and, being smitten with terror at the thought of being accused of taking liberties, she rashly darted under the table, which hid her by its tablecloth
46. The children stood and looked at each other for a few minutes; and then Sara took her hand out of her muff and held it out across the counter, and Anne took it, and they looked straight into each other's eyes
47. She was standing in the middle of the room with her muff and her shawl in her hands
48. She drew one more deep breath of the fresh air, and had just put he hand out of her muff to take hold of the door post and get back into the carriage, when another man in a military overcoat, quite close beside her, stepped between her and the flickering light of the lamp post
49. Her hands were in her muff, her cheeks red with exercise, and her eyes, which had wept more tears in the last few hours than they would acknowledge to have seen for many months, stung in the sharp air
50. Should she not take it, return and force herself to learn the lesson—that it is folly to be too wise? As she clasped her hands together in her muff the letter crushed upon her palm; she set her lips, drew a sharp breath, and resumed her walk, turning across to the Pont de la Concorde, traversing it quickly, a graceful, agile pedestrian among the many foot passengers, unobserving of the admiring eyes of those whose chase is beauty
1. The aroma called to the young woman’s hollow stomach and she shifted her stance to muffle its low grumblings
2. His groans of frustrated uncertainty about his culinary skills also made her laugh, though she did her best to muffle it
3. So, what now? You, uh…said something about…food?” He could barely shuffle his feet in time to muffle the grumbling growls of his hollow stomach
4. As she quickly read the short message, she had to muffle an amused gasp
5. He pressed his palms to his ears, hoping to muffle the noise, but it just seemed to trap the sound behind his eyes, amplifying it as it reverberated around his skull
6. After a few seconds I clamp my hand over my mouth to muffle the sound and scream again, a scream that turns into a sob
7. The mournful moan of the ram’s horns, although a little less continuous than it had been before, only served to muffle their shouts of victory as they cut through the stream of people that threatened to carry them along with it
8. little less continuous than it had been before, only served to muffle their shouts of victory as
9. The bunker would muffle the sound and protect the
10. She put her head on his shoulder to muffle the sounds
11. jeans that mom had me wear this morning will muffle the sound if any happens to come from
12. He went to his bedroom where nobody could see him and used his pillow to muffle the sound of his weeping
13. Pon, tried to muffle the sound as he scrambled back into his hiding position and answered
14. was almost laboured as he tried to muffle it’s sound
15. instructions to muffle her ears and not even peer at the
16. On a day such as this when the ocean was perfectly still and there were no crashing waves to muffle the shouts and boisterous play of the youths, it was entirely inappropriate to act with such vociferousness
17. Her hands covered her mouth, attempting to muffle her uncontrollable whimpers
18. The sound surprised him feeling that the walls should muffle the sounds
19. She covered her mouth with the inside of her elbow to muffle the uncontrollably loud sounds but kept moving to make use of her valuable time
20. She felt another cough attack coming on and buried her mouth in her sleeve to muffle the noise
21. He had to muffle a chuckle to hide his surprise as this was no ordinary looking chef’s hat but was bright pink with large black checks, although keeping the same traditional shape
22. Many people just don’t have enough information and turn on the protective functions of their mind and try to muffle these thoughts
23. He thought he recognised Frank’s voice despite the attempt to muffle it so that presumably the secretary in the adjoining room would not hear him, or perhaps any other staff member of the police PR unit who might be passing his door
24. My heart is racing a hundred miles per hour, but I ignore it and grab the now-very-familiar Russian as soon as I turn the corner, placing my hand over his mouth to muffle his scream
25. “Help me,” he tried screaming, a pathetic muffle the only thing escaping through a
26. There were no windows in the room and the walls had large rugs hung around the room to muffle the sounds that came out of it
27. The next morning when he was leaving, he was so shy and adorable in my foyer that when he left and I closed the door, I covered my mouth with my hand to muffle my crushed-out squeal
28. He was holding it between both hands to muffle it, but he was a poor insulator
29. Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment the curve of the transition to the point of retarding progress, to dull that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop the giant-people in flannel, and to put it to bed very speedily, to impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment of a convalescent, to dilute the event with the expedient, to offer to spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the revolution with a shade
30. The walls and doors were thick enough to muffle sound
31. But the silently falling snow seemed to muffle their voices and there was not even an echo in answer
32. So that, through their zeal for him, they had all conspired, so far as in them lay, to muffle up the knowledge of this thing from others; and hence it was, that not till a considerable interval had elapsed, did it transpire upon the Pequod's decks
1. ’ Emma said, her voice muffled … she must be holding the phone under her chin so that she can write in her diary
2. of his throat and his first sound was little more than a muffled cough
3. I thought it a form of madness at first, a splitting of myself across an endless coastal landscape: as though I was drifting in and out of the range of my own muffled hearing
4. The words that he wanted to conjure up caught at the back of his throat and his first sound was little more than a muffled cough
5. We follow him as he picks his way through the pines, our footsteps muffled by the layer of pine needles underfoot
6. 'I will pay whatever I can,' Ali's dad said in a muffled voice
7. There was a great shudder that went through the earth as she felt it move, and then a muffled clanking of a machine came from above
8. ' he said, his voice muffled against my hair
9. followed by the muffled sounds of Lucy taking off her coat and
10. Tom was muffled up in his greatcoat with the collar turned up,
11. The sack wriggled again and a muffled
12. Jock nods, remembering her husband and muffled sounds that came from the boot of his old Mercedes
13. The voice on the other side was muffled
14. “Ah the flower of highland womanhood,” his muffled voice intoned
15. voice muffled as he shouted at the Agent
16. swift prod in the abdomen, and a muffled cry from James,
17. Then, alerted by the muffled sound of a throat dislodging phlegm, he turned to the door
18. Even the Rotting Ones have a better scent," he continued, his voice muffled as claw, and finger, disappeared into his nostril
19. After much muffled shouting from atop the parapet, the beam settled in a slightly bent position then the weights continued on once more
20. Just as the half second delay expired and Alfred's beam started to swing this way, it was suddenly silent for a fraction of a second, then there was a muffled splintering crunch as the table and its carpet impacted on something stone far below
21. The only sounds are of a CLOCK TICKING and the MUFFLED BEACH
22. Muffled voices resounding from every direction had been growing louder with each step and for the first time in a while – at least since the last time she had been confronted by Mercer Frey – she was profoundly nervous
23. She could hear muffled voices that rose and fell in the night air
24. She let a muffled groan escape
25. As Odis stared at the green substance, his pupils widened and his muffled screams increased in volume
26. As the waves of sound rose and fell and rose again, he could hear the muffled conversation between a certain yellow-haired Nord woman hawking her available accommodations and what Delvin assumed was an Imperial man, whom he had never seen before
27. They wound through the lower decks, the miserable muffled moans and whimpering sounds of agony and abuse escaping each open chamber they passed in the darkness
28. And muffled voices would echo
29. muffled saying " where
30. The freaks were moaning and growling quite loudly, but I heard a muffled reply over the din
31. They had not taking more than a few strides when suddenly they stopped as a muffled whir of air was heard
32. She didn’t wake when he picked her up, but he could hear the sound of her thready breathing and muffled pulse as he lifted her in his strong arms
33. Sebastian’s muffled voice rose above the seat
34. A sharp and rapidly fading hiss noise emitted from the door and then came a muffled clunk sound
35. He was about to try the controls again when there was a sudden muffled boom sound from some distance away
36. I heard a muffled footstep and looked up
37. He heard a muffled moan
38. Then they zig zagged the wire twelve feet in front and twelve feet behind to ground level using more angle irons the hammers we used and the tops of the pickets were muffled with rags to stop any noise
39. Then we heard the unmistakeable sound of muffled hammers being used the word was passed down and we crawled forward slowly and quietly until we got into position
40. We all took cover and there was a series of muffled explosions as they detonated and grey white dust spewed up and out of the entrance
41. ‘Wake up,’ the man with the mask said in a muffled voice, only his eyes visible
42. There was a muffled squeal, a yelp of agony
43. All sounds were muffled by the heavy door, but Raven could just hear the clock outside chime midnight
44. Only the muffled sound of occasional activity outside could be heard through the thick walls
45. Her expression of gratitude was somewhat muffled by the noise she made shoving the tub across the room until it was so close to the stove she would be hard-pressed to get in without searing something important
46. “What’s that!” shouted a muffled male voice from the warehouse on the nearby dock
47. Muffled voices started up in the foyer, both male and female, though she could not understand the words
48. So we suffered in silence as the mask muffled any comments
49. and was also muffled, for his old hat had slipped down to his chin
50. “It was Pickles,” she said with a shiver, then burying her face in Sheena’s shoulder, added in a muffled voice, “I want my dad
1. of the proverb, muffles the word of life and victory in Christ
2. Lying in the bed, Chrissie muffles a scream as she feels again the smarting of the cuts he inflicted to her arms and hands as she fought to defend herself
3. Bed springs squeal as a large body turns, and a pillow muffles the sobs, but not enough
4. He muffles a laugh as he kisses the top of my head
5. Hannah screams for a half second but quickly muffles it with her own hand
6. She opens her mouth to cry out, but a glove muffles her
1. There's some kind of delay, some kind of muffling of the sensation
2. As tears flowed down her face Kate was very careful not to let her grieving moans be heard and so, muffling her sobs, as she had done the last four nights, she cried herself to sleep
3. Another gesture brought a large knitted doily flying from beneath a vase and stuffed it into Alilia’s mouth, muffling her again
4. hide the smiles on their faces, muffling the laughs with their hands
5. chest, muffling inhuman noises coming out of his mouth
6. As he rounded the shack and started to climb the porch the pit bull grabbed him by the throat and the only evidence of a struggle was a subdued gurgling noise as the hound was quickly suffocated; his thrashing body rigidly anchored by the muscular JY, the sand effectively muffling the sounds of the twitching carcass
7. the door, where it barked and scratched, muffling the sound of approaching
8. He opened a new pack of Nyota and by the time he lit this, the strongest and most pungent of all cigarettes, birds had stopped singing and the generator had started its night long puffing, muffling the sound of dogs in the camp
9. There was a baffled muffling from the phone
10. It was warmer than he’d expected, and the shadows clamped onto him with a certain softness, muffling sound and blocking light, with all the effect of being wrapped in a huge black duvet
11. She groans and drops her head into her pillow, muffling her words
12. She dared another look from her hiding spot and jumped back with her hand muffling a cry of surprise
13. A steady wind blew against Connor’s back filling his ears with its muffling sound
14. She was unable, however, to prevent him from being seen on one occasion, as he sallied forth at daybreak, by Lothario, who, not knowing who he was, at first took him for a spectre; but, as soon as he saw him hasten away, muffling his face with his cloak and concealing himself carefully and cautiously, he rejected this foolish idea, and adopted another, which would have been the ruin of all had not Camilla found a remedy
15. Saying these words, the Transteverin disappeared down the staircase, while his companion, muffling his features more closely than before in the folds of his mantle, passed almost close to Franz, and descended to the arena by an outward flight of steps
16. Wilson passed beside the scaffold, closely muffling his Geneva cloak about him with one arm, and holding the lantern before his breast with the other, the minister could hardly restrain himself from speaking
17. The more she highlighted, the more her head became packed with pink, woolly sugar, clogging and muffling the circuits in her brain that were needed to understand and remember what she was reading
18. Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and Blucher would not have found Wellington on his feet
19. Jomini divides the battle of Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, seized with his haughty glance the characteristic outlines of that catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance
20. It is always the wrong hour when the police ambulance goes anywhere, but this was especially wrong, for it was long after midnight and nobody imagined it would ever be day again, because the sea coming in on the lightless shore below said as much, and the wind blowing salt cold in from the Pacific reaffirmed this, and the fog muffling the sky and putting out the stars struck the final, unfelt-but-disabling blow
21. The Lowood constraint still clings to you somewhat; controlling your features, muffling your voice, and restricting your limbs; and you fear in the presence of a man and a brother—or father, or master, or what you will—to smile too gaily, speak too freely, or move too quickly: but, in time, I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you; and then your looks and movements will have more vivacity and variety than they dare offer now
22. While the sun was up, it was a beating, flailing heat, but now the heat came from below, from the earth itself, and the heat was thick and muffling
23. But once, the mood was on him too deep for common regardings; and as with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from taffrail to mainmast, Stubb, the old second mate, came up from below, with a certain unassured, deprecating humorousness, hinted that if Captain Ahab was pleased to walk the planks, then, no one could say nay; but there might be some way of muffling the noise; hinting something indistinctly and hesitatingly about a globe of tow, and the insertion into it, of the ivory heel