Both Uses of
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- Catherine gave a long, low sigh; she tried to stifle it, for she had made up her mind that it was wrong to make a parade of her trouble, and to endeavour to act upon her father by the meretricious aid of emotion.†
Chpt 18 *
- Mrs. Penniman drew her into Catherine's own room, and the two women sat there together, far into the small hours; the younger one with her head on the other's lap, sobbing and sobbing at first in a soundless, stifled manner, and then at last perfectly still.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(stifle as in: stifling the urge) to suppress (prevent something or decrease its development) -- often political freedom