Word: smotheration
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...smother the fish. They breathe and must have plenty of oxygen. . . . When the fish come to the surface and gasp, this indicates that the oxygen in the water has been exhausted and the water should be changed...
...keen and younger men whose blood is hot and spirits high, should read this book; but especially are its pages commended to anxious parents and college professors who are earnestly seeking to follow where the light of duty leads and who sincerely dread best interest in play and recreation smother and stifle the intellectual life...
...smother at the first turn, flashed a horse ("Singlefoot," screamed Coach Rockne), fell back before another ("Captain Hal," howled Owner Kaiser). Where was Quatrain? Waiting for an opening. Where was Kentucky Cardinal? Nowhere. Another horse was out now, pressing at the withers of the gallant Captain Hal, at his shoulder, at his muzzle, was clearly bumping himself like a black witch rabbit. Only one man now believed that Quatrain had a chance: he was Sande, bent to the shoulder of Flying Ebony. He could outrun Captain Hal he thought, but Quatrain was the best horse in the race, the horse...
...rather upon the delights of image and music than upon the more distinctly literary delights of diction. Just this quality of exciting power in phrase is strong in "Romantic Melancholy" by J. A. Abbott. "Angled twigs, skeletons of the summer, the gust surges through the trees in floods, the smother grief, and smother hope lest disappointment grieve, the range of hissing sea foam as its creamy lines slide down the sand"--almost every phrase is in itself alive with a sort of electric thrill. "Sharon" by Stuart Ayers is pleasantly young, pretty, musical in the ear that listens to "something...
...fighting conflagrations, blankets are often employed to cut off ventilation, smother the flames. Just so were the fires of revolution dealt with by the Brazilian Government when they broke out in Sao Paulo (TIME, July 15, July 21). A heavy swaddling of censorship was wrapped about the Press. For a week only official Government communiqués, meagre and guarded, reached the outer world with news of the revolt...