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“It’s a great stifler of emotional maturity because we use it to deal with all our problems, and we don’t deal with life on life’s terms,” he said.

From Washington Times • Oct. 5, 2016

I hope for the best, though I am now in a sore pinch; yet thought is free—I think Handie Dandie and I may queer the stifler* for all that is come and gone.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Lord Keeper Guildford was also a stifler of the proceedings against witches.

From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Scott, Walter, Sir

I go away with feelings that may be conceived but cannot be described, feeling within myself that desolating truth that my best affections have experienced this night a stifler!'

From The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles

"Never—never did I swelter under such a stifler in my life."

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)