The wind seemed to muffle it and fly away with it directly.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
To abolish the thought and remembrance of my talent, muffle and stifle the powers of the brain, and remember only that I had the pulses and senses and blood of a man.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
I watched her awhile silently, noting her curious way of feeding,-now pulling up a bite of lush water-grass, now stretching her neck and her great muffle to sweep off a mouthful of water-maple leaves, first one then the other, like a boy with two apples; while the calf nosed along the shore and paid no attention to the canoe, which he saw perfectly but which his mother did not see.
"A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories"
William Long