smothery
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of smothery
Example Sentences
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"Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't," Huck says.
From Time Magazine Archive
No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses.
From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 8. by Twain, Mark
The tree, as she described it afterward, seemed to give way behind her, and she fell backward into soft smothery darkness.
From The Wonderful Bed by Knevels, Gertrude
The ground sloped precipitously; and I was holding back by the underbrush lest the bank led to water when an indistinct sound, a smothery murmur like the gurgle of a subterranean pool, came from below.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
Miss Amelia had taken off her smothery woollen dress and put on a black calico, but it wasn't any more cheerful.
From Laddie; a true blue story by Stratton-Porter, Gene
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