That muffled sound from the vast, silent multitude was, doubtless, the quick beating of innumerable hearts; but that sharper note?

IV.Ivanhoe's Wedding At the castle of Coningsburgh all was a scene of busy commotion when the Black Knight, attended by Ivanhoe, who had muffled his face in his mantle, entered and was welcomed gravely by Cedricby common consent the chief of the distinguished Saxon families present.

The guard muffles Tom's feet up in straw, and puts an oat-sack over his knees, but it is not until after breakfast that his tongue is unloosed, and he rubs up his memory, and launches out into a graphic history of all the performances of the Rugby boys on the roads for the last twenty years.

Glancing around the room, he continued, bending toward the Colonel and muffling his now whispering voice with his hand: "I want to speak to you alone.

But these Moors, for a better pretence of secrecy, had muffled their oars, so that we knew not they were at hand until we heard Haroun's voice speaking low.

The disappointed people for the most part, however, restrained their wrath, and contented themselves with closing their shops and muffling their church bells.

It is not prudent to muffle the neck in scarfs, furs, and wraps, unless perhaps during an unusual exposure to cold.

There were muffled noises and suppressed ejaculations of "Aw, come on there, now!

But when the warrior dieth, His comrades in the war, With arms reversed and muffled drum, Follow his funeral car; They show the banners taken, They tell his battles won, And after him lead his masterless steed, While peals the minute gun.

But if I thought that a sweater and a pair of leggings could muffle their ears as to what had gone before, I soon found my mistake.

Nevertheless there comes even from Germany muffled cries for a new age.

"The night I rowed you into Louisbourg, a-reconnoitring," said Fid, thrusting his left hand into his bosom, while, with his right, he applied sufficient force to the light oar to make the skiff glide swiftly over the water"that night we muffled every thing even to our tongues.

I heard a form tumble down the steep stairs, and muffled curses which reminded me of the lines in the Hohenlinden poem: "It is Iser (I sir) rolling rapidly.

Away on the dry rarified air pealed the cry, piercing the cedar forest, splitting sharp in the vaulted canyons, rolling loud and long, to lose power, to die away in muffling echo.

And then the crash or, if farther away, muffled explosion as another roof toppled in or cornice dropped off, as a house made of canvas drops to pieces in a play.

Here, on the edge of the copse, the river widens to a considerable pool, and coming upon it softly through the wood from behindthe boggy, moss-covered ground masking and muffling my foot-fallI have surprised a great, graceful ash-and-white heron, standing all unconscious on the shallow bottom, in the very act of angling for minnows.

She would muffle up her features, but it is too late; and she is not only fully exposed to his view, but to that of a hundred other curious eyes.

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

The waves lapping the beach helped muffle my footsteps, but no other sound reached my ears, nor could my eyes perceive the slightest movement along the water surface within reach of vision.

It risesa muffled form between the turretsthe figure of a man wrapped in a cloakon the near side out of the smoke and flames.

Once upon a time a studgroom tried to make a stallion cover his mother, but could never get him to come near her: so one day the groom muffled the stallion's head and put him to his mother successfully: but when the bandage was removed and the stallion saw what he had done, he fell upon the groom and killed him with his teeth.

"Such are the English knights, I cried, Who all their better feelings hide; Who muffle up their hearts with care, To hide the virtues nestling there, Who neither praise nor blame can bear.

Night muffled their hulls, and their safety lights hung in a scattered constellation.

Who would think of tying up or muffling the young lamb or kid?

At Second Bull Run, to show that he was no slave to one form of strategy, he muffled up Pope's left instead of his right, here using Longstreet.