#muffled

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk. ↗

— Alec Guinness

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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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