When I looked at that first, I got a smothery kind of feeling, overpowered like. |
And I laughed again till I thought there must be some elf scrambling among the rafters of that smothery ceiling. |
In a moment they were mere fantastic shadows galloping up the hill through the smothery gloom. |
Remember the smothery feather-beds, and the ice-cold pickled beets and pie 15 for breakfast? |
The works go whole hog for Freud and this can be cloying or smothery. |
No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses. |