All 11 Uses of
stifle
in
Gone with the Wind
- At first she tried to stifle the thoughts, but the hard self-honesty that lay at the base of her nature would not permit it.†
Chpt 2.9 *
- But the doctor did look like a goat with his gray chin whiskers wagging away at a great rate, and with difficulty she stifled a giggle.†
Chpt 2.9
- She stifled her impulse to tell him exactly what she thought of him.†
Chpt 2.9
- As for Aunt Pitty, she was nervously trying to stifle a belch, for the rooster they had had for supper was a tough old bird.†
Chpt 3.17
- The fire in the oven had died but the room was stifling hot.†
Chpt 3.23
- Rhett turned the horse's slow feet westward from Peachtree and the wobbling wagon jounced into the rutty lane with a violence that wrenched an abruptly stifled moan from Melanie.†
Chpt 3.23
- Atlanta, with its noises, its new buildings, its strange faces, its narrow streets crowded with horses and wagons and bustling crowds sometimes seemed to stifle her.†
Chpt 4.38
- She screamed, stifled against him and he stopped suddenly on the landing and, turning her swiftly in his arms, bent over and kissed her with a savagery and a completeness that wiped out everything from her mind but the dark into which she was sinking and the lips on hers.†
Chpt 5.54
- She was very glad she had stifled this impulse when her first news of Rhett came in a letter from Aunt Pauline in Charleston where, it seemed, Rhett was visiting his mother.†
Chpt 5.56
- She felt that she would stifle if she stayed in Atlanta another day, with her tired mind forcing itself round and round the deeply worn circle of futile thoughts about the mess she was in.†
Chpt 5.57
- Almost as clearly as if that dreadful day had returned, she could feel the stifling heat of the September noon, remembering her terror of the Yankees, hear the tramp of the retreating troops, recall Melanie's voice begging her to take the baby should she die—remember, too, how she had hated Melanie that day and hoped that she would die.†
Chpt 5.61
Definition:
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(stifle as in: stifling the urge) to suppress (prevent something or decrease its development) -- often political freedom