Word: smothered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enemy. Coast dwellers frown when the grey banks drift in and smother the buoys. At sea the slowed ships feel their way; the sirens mourn incessantly. Voices are lowered in a fog, which muffles them yet lower as though it shrouded something grave about to happen. Fog, several hours of it, gets on men's nerves. Two thousand miles of groping through fog might drive two men in an airplane-a land airplane over an ocean-close to distraction. So thought radio operators listening last week to the day-and- nightlong flashes of Ernest L. Smith, civilian pilot...
Alma's need to love is expansive enough to embrace the whole "Free Country" (U. S. A.) of her adoption, and articulate enough to smother with its excess every possible husband. It is a need of such unusual and innocent intensity that Alma's story, much of it in broken English, hovers constantly between the exquisite and the absurd. To dare this hovering was a brave thing and Author Fuller's feat of bringing Alma credibly through from naive immigrant to disillusioned but still saintly New England housekeeper, is a remarkable one. Her repeated rejections...
...room through whose wide windows a soft autumn wind stirred the curtains, Frederic Chopin lay on his bed and coughed. Friends gathered to gaze at his haggard face, to watch him, still clinging to empty and conscious eccentricities, scribble notes: "As this earth will smother me, I conjure you to have my body opened so I may not be buried alive...
...Lord; Saul invested always with the dignity of his Roman citizenship, yet humble enough to suffer fiercely, meanly, publicly for peace in his church; Saul the clever theologian and subtle Greek philosopher, never- save once in his proud youth at the feet of Gamaliel-never letting intellectual pride smother the pure flame of Christ's love; ending his days, near the time of Rome's burning, in humble age, saying: "I am only an old man, to whom one day a thing of wonder happened, and who has gone over the world seeking people to tell...
...dinner when a terrific rumbling, surging noise rent the air. A thousand windows crashed, and the building oscillated. . . . The floor reeled under my feet. All the lights failed. We expected momentarily the roof to fall and smother...