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.