All 26 Uses of
stifle
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- He stifled, therefore, the feelings of compassion that were rising, composed his features, and sat down, grim and sombre, at his desk.†
Chpt 7-8
- All Villefort's influence barely enabled him to stifle the secret Dantes had so nearly divulged.†
Chpt 13-14 *
- Still, from an artificial civilization have originated wants, vices, and false tastes, which occasionally become so powerful as to stifle within us all good feelings, and ultimately to lead us into guilt and wickedness.†
Chpt 17-18
- But beneath this superficial calm there were in the heart of the young man, and perhaps in that of the old man, many repressed desires, many stifled sighs, which found vent when Faria was left alone, and when Edmond returned to his cell.†
Chpt 19-20
- If he was detected in this and the earth proved too heavy, he would be stifled, and then—so much the better, all would be over.†
Chpt 19-20
- At last, with a horrible splash, he darted like an arrow into the ice-cold water, and as he did so he uttered a shrill cry, stifled in a moment by his immersion beneath the waves.†
Chpt 19-20
- "True," said the abbe, with a stifled sigh, "Mercedes it was."†
Chpt 25-26
- A loud noise was heard on the stairs of people moving hastily, and half-stifled sobs.†
Chpt 29-30
- I had not yet fully recovered consciousness, when again I heard groans, mingled with half-stifled cries, as if from persons engaged in a deadly struggle.†
Chpt 45-46
- The third proceeded to barricade the doors and windows, then returned, and the three united in stifling the cries of terror incited by the sight of these preparations, and then dragged Assunta feet foremost towards the brazier, expecting to wring from her an avowal of where her supposed treasure was secreted.†
Chpt 45-46
- "Ah, really," said Monte Cristo in a half-stifled voice.†
Chpt 49-50
- "Yet conscience remains," remarked Madame de Villefort in an agitated voice, and with a stifled sigh.†
Chpt 51-52
- I felt pain; I wished to cry out, but an icy shiver ran through my veins and stifled my voice; I fell lifeless, and fancied myself killed.†
Chpt 67-68
- "Ah, my child, my poor child!" cried the baroness, falling on her chair, and stifling her sobs in her handkerchief.†
Chpt 67-68
- Villefort's only answer was a stifled groan.†
Chpt 67-68
- "What, again?" she exclaimed, in so plaintive an accent that it seemed to stifle a sob; "really, you pain me."†
Chpt 71-72
- Franz fell powerless on a chair; Villefort opened the door and escaped, for the idea had entered his mind to stifle the little remaining life in the heart of this terrible old man.†
Chpt 75-76
- And for the second time Haidee stopped, overcome by such violent emotion that the perspiration stood upon her pale brow, and her stifled voice seemed hardly able to find utterance, so parched and dry were her throat and lips.†
Chpt 77-78
- "You will retract this assertion, will you not, Beauchamp?" said Albert with increased though stifled anger.†
Chpt 77-78
- "M. d'Avrigny, M. d'Avrigny," cried she, in a stifled voice.†
Chpt 79-80
- Then, with a hasty movement, he tore open his coat, which seemed to stifle him, and flew from the room like a madman; his footstep was heard one moment in the corridor, then the rattling of his carriage-wheels as he was driven rapidly away.†
Chpt 85-86
- It was just five o'clock in the morning when a slight noise like a stifled sigh reached his ear.†
Chpt 89-90
- M. de Villefort would stifle the affair; he had only to turn his eyes on one side, and allow Andrea to fly, and follow up the crime under that shadow of guilt called contempt of court.†
Chpt 99-100
- And this time, as though nature had at least taken compassion on the vigorous frame, nearly bursting with its own strength, the words of Morrel were stifled in his throat; his breast heaved; the tears, so long rebellious, gushed from his eyes; and he threw himself weeping on his knees by the side of the bed.†
Chpt 103-104
- The young man was thrown from the top of the rock; the corpse was found on the bed next day, and the whole truth was guessed, for the men who performed the office then mentioned what they had not dared to speak of before, that at the moment the corpse was thrown into the deep, they heard a shriek, which was almost immediately stifled by the water in which it disappeared.†
Chpt 113-114
- Haidee became pale, and lifting her transparent hands to heaven, exclaimed in a voice stifled with tears, "Then you leave me, my lord?"†
Chpt 117
Definition:
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(stifle as in: stifling the urge) to suppress (prevent something or decrease its development) -- often political freedom