1 There was a sound of horses' feet and of singing, deadened by the closed windows and doors, borne away by the wind but still recognizable.
2 The youth's senses were so deadened that his friend's voice sounded from afar and he could scarcely feel the pressure of the corporal's arm.
3 The youth and his friend of a sudden looked up, feeling a deadened form of distress at the waning of these noises, which had become a part of life.
4 They're a sad lot, a deadened lot of men: dead to their women, dead to life.
5 As her once elastic walk had become deadened by time, so had her natural pride of life been hindered in its blooming by her necessities.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 6 The thick dust deadened our footsteps.
7 One favorable circumstance, which enabled Marius not to lose a word of this conversation was the falling snow which deadened the sound of vehicles on the boulevard.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE 8 From a distance resounded, deadened, however, by good shutters, the songs of the tipplers, enjoying themselves in the cabarets scattered along the plain.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 9 A deadened burst of mighty splashes and snorts reached us from afar, as though an ichthyosaurus had been taking a bath of glitter in the great river.
10 A terrified old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE 11 It was absolutely necessary to deaden the blows.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND... 12 As soon as they were gone, Elizabeth walked out to recover her spirits; or in other words, to dwell without interruption on those subjects that must deaden them more.
13 Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me.
14 I mark this in our old Mogul's wine; it's quite as deadening to some as filliping to others.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle. 15 But the novel, like gossip, can also excite spurious sympathies and recoils, mechanical and deadening to the psyche.