All 3 Uses of
stifle
in
The Mill on the Floss
- As for Tom's school course, it went on with mill-like monotony, his mind continuing to move with a slow, half-stifled pulse in a medium uninteresting or unintelligible ideas.†
Chpt 2.7
- You could not live among such people; you are stifled for want of an outlet toward something beautiful, great, or noble; you are irritated with these dull men and women, as a kind of population out of keeping with the earth on which they live,—with this rich plain where the great river flows forever onward, and links the small pulse of the old English town with the beatings of the world's mighty heart.†
Chpt 4.1
- Such glances and tones bring the breath of poetry with them into a room that is half stifling with glaring gas and hard flirtation.†
Chpt 6.10 *
Definition:
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(stifle as in: stifling the urge) to suppress (prevent something or decrease its development) -- often political freedom