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A muffled sound of voices floated up from the far end of the graveyard.
They waited a time that seemed an age, and then the same muffled boom troubled the solemn hush.
There was another communing silence, broken at intervals by muffled sobs, and then the minister spread his hands abroad and prayed.
He had a great blue coat muffled round him, and the hat with the high red plume was lying on the ground beside him.
But when I came into the press-yard, I so disguised myself, and muffled my face up so, that he could see little of me, and consequently knew nothing of who I was; and when I came back, I said publicly that I knew them very well.
"I should think," said Sancho, "that the thoughts that allow one to make verses cannot be of great consequence; let your worship string verses as much as you like and I'll sleep as much as I can;" and forthwith, taking the space of ground he required, he muffled himself up and fell into a sound sleep, undisturbed by bond, debt, or trouble of any sort.
Mr. Winkle was muffled up in a huge cloak to escape observation, and Mr. Snodgrass bore under his the instruments of destruction.
Mr. Snodgrass looked in the direction indicated by the forefinger of his friend, and observed a figure, muffled up, as he had described.
His doubts were speedily dispelled, however; for the stout man having blown a thick cloud from his pipe, a hoarse voice, like some strange effort of ventriloquism, emerged from beneath the capacious shawls which muffled his throat and chest, and slowly uttered these sounds--'Wy, Sammy!''Who's that, Sam?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
'Having drawn the travelling-cap he had on half over his face, and muffled himself in his cloak, Heyling stopped before the meanest-looking house in the street, and knocked gently at the door.
She had no bonnet on her head, gentlemen, which was muffled in a black silk hood, but she looked round for an instant as she prepared to get into the coach, and such a beautiful face as she disclosed, my uncle had never seen--not even in a picture.
'At present, however, his thoughts were occupied with the young lady who sat in the farthest corner of the coach, with her face muffled closely in her hood; the gentleman with the sky-blue coat sitting opposite to her; the other man in the plum-coloured suit, by her side; and both watching her intently.
He had a rather formal habit of speech, and his words came muffled from the depths of a dense jungle of beard iron-gray and unusually long.
He could hear muffled breathings, the rustle of draperies, and the faintest possible jarring of shutters, cautiously opened from within.
There was a muffled hum quite distinct from the rustle of voices within the palace.
In a turn of the hand she muffled him up in a flowered robe, a large hood, and a cloak.
It was the sob of a woman, the muffled, strangling gasp of one who is torn by an uncontrollable sorrow.
To this post a figure was tied, so swathed and muffled in the sheets which had been used to secure it that one could not for the moment tell whether it was that of a man or a woman.
The thick grass completely muffled their footsteps.
Miss Morstan was muffled in a dark cloak, and her sensitive face was composed, but pale.
I am so glad you have come, Mr. Thaddeus, sir!"We heard her reiterated rejoicings until the door was closed and her voice died away into a muffled monotone.
"Here's a business!" he cried, in a muffled, husky voice.
"Pax vobiscum," said Wamba, who was now muffled in his religious disguise.
A watchman, either tipsy or too much muffled up because of the severe frost, had not heard a tram that was being shunted, and had been run over.
'Here, please, No. 28!' cried other voices, while many people muffled up and covered with snow ran hither and thither.
The moment the two, muffled up, smiling, and rather shy, had crossed the threshold, we shut all doors on them, and a glorious week of happiness began for us all.. .
Following the loud clatter of their hobnailed clogs on the flagstones of the room are heard their muffled and hurried steps crushing the sand of the yard and skidding as they sharply turn by the little gate opening on the road.
No other sound could be heard there but the muffled music of a piano.
I heard, inside, muffled steps hastening.
My seat, to which Bessie and the bitter Miss Abbot had left me riveted, was a low ottoman near the marble chimney-piece; the bed rose before me; to my right hand there was the high, dark wardrobe, with subdued, broken reflections varying the gloss of its panels; to my left were the muffled windows; a great looking-glass between them repeated the vacant majesty of the bed and room.
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