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- Until the day he died, even in the stifling Ayemenem heat, every single day Pappachi wore a well-pressed three-piece suit and his gold pocket watch.Chapter 2 (30% in)
- But she had tears in her eyes, and had to stifle a fresh batch of giggles, which made the hungry man whose order she was taking look up from his menu, his thin lips pursed in silent disapproval.Chapter 13 (20% in)
There are no more uses of "stifle" in The God of Small Things.
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