1 The cat, unnoticed, had crept up on muffled paws from Zeena's seat to the table, and was stealthily elongating its body in the direction of the milk-jug, which stood between Ethan and Mattie.
2 "Mother was only fifteen when she married you, and I'm sixteen," said Scarlett, her voice muffled.
3 The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him.
4 She heard the soft muffled sound of his footsteps dying away down the long hall, and the complete enormity of her actions came over her.
5 Uncle Peter, muffled in a quilt, was bringing out the carriage to take Ashley to the train.
6 The second sentry, a large man muffled in a blue overcoat from which villainous black whiskers burst, came through the mud toward them.
7 Sometimes he awoke at night and heard the soft sound of tears muffled in the pillow.
8 Those in the house heard a sharp order, muffled by the wind: "Surround the house."
9 "I did not mean to pry--" she said in a muffled voice, her white face reddening, as she hastily pressed the towel back into place.
10 Then there had been tiptoeing feet and hushed voices, muffled knocks on the door, neighbors rustling in to whisper sympathy and occasional sobs from Frank's sister who had come up from Jonesboro for the funeral.
11 He hurt her and she cried out, muffled, frightened.
12 For a long time Mammy strained her sharp ears but she could distinguish nothing except the clatter of silver on china, and the muffled soft tones of Melanie's voice.
13 "Twenty-eight," she answered dully, muffled in the handkerchief.
14 Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters, all bedarned and ragged, and their beards stiff with icicles, they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador.
15 A muffled silence reigned, only broken at times by the shrieks of the storm.