The two passengers comfortably muffled in the robes of the rear seat, the driver buttoned the curtains tight about them methodically.

Ambrosio recognised him; it was Rosario, his favourite novice, a youth of whose origin none knew anything, save that his bearing, and such of his features as accident had discoveredfor he seemed fearful of being recognised, and was continually muffled up in his cowlproved him to be of noble birth.

Jeanne shivered ostentatiously; Cynthia sighed and muffled herself deeper in her fur collar.

" The sound of the bell, muffled funereally, at the back of the house, fulfilled her premonition.

One by one the others came, hastily muffled and wrapped in dark robes, for the night was cold and damp even within doors.

But beyond it the screaming went on in volume imperceptibly muffled by its barrier, one ear-splitting caterwaul following another with such continuity that the wonder was where Lady Randolph West found breath to keep up that atrocious row, and whether any dozen women of average lung-power could have rivalled it.

Apprehension of the boats now ceased, though Ithuel fancied, from time to time, that he heard smothered sounds, like those of oars imperfectly muffled.

O muffle muffle, good Graccus, do not taint thy sence With sight of these infectious animalles, 'Less reason in thee have the upper hand To governe sence, to see and shun the sight.

Then he turned and went away, noiselessly as he had come, the thick-piled carpet of the anteroom muffling his footfalls.

"I only want to know," she said, after a moment, speaking with an effort in a voice that sounded oddly muffled even to herself, "if Mr. Ranger is here.

The rhythmically muffled sound suggested the mixing of flapjacks.

The voices in the Convalescent Ward came up to them, scarcely muffled, through the low passage, and with them a cackling laugh.

the whole great spectacle, here as on the Ourcq, was sorely muffled and blurred by the snow, which lay thick over the whole length and breadth of France, effacing the landscape in one monotonous whiteness.

Finally a reply came which sounded strangely muffled, as if from up above, so he went up and into her bedroom.

Her voice sounded a trifle muffled, because for some reason or other she had stuffed her head and shoulders in a bean bin, and was measuring beans in a desperate hurry, which seemed a rather unnecessary task, as she had no orders to fill.

we observed the first evening, listening to the comfortably muffled sounds of shells overhead.

"My beautiful and gracious lady," he murmured in that curiously muffled voice of his, which seemed to endow his strange personality with additional mystery.

Fortunately, however, Henry was so closely muffled in a thick cloak that before the assassin could effect his purpose the attendants were enabled to seize him and liberate their royal master, who was perfectly uninjured.

Doctor Byrne gave what seemed to be an infinitely muffled cry of exultation, so faint that it was hardly a whisper; then he leaned closer and pored over Joe Cumberland with a lighted eye.

"No lily-muffled hum of a summer bee But finds some coupling with, the spinning stars; No pebble at your foot but proves a sphere; No chaffinch but implies the cherubim: ...

They seem good and kind and amiable men, and I have no doubt are conscientious in their capacity of slaveholders; but to one who has lived outside this dreadful atmosphere, the whole tone of their discourse has a morally muffled sound, which one must hear to be able to conceive.

Brown's talks had to be subject to constant though painstakingly muffled interruptions, as one after another stole into the room.

He broke off, for Mac Strann had jerked up his head and said in a strangely muffled voice: "What was that?" The bullet head of Haw-Haw Langley leaned to one side, and his glittering eyes rolled up while he listened.