The snow that had, clung to the pines, Muting their needles and stilling their branches, had dropped on during the day.
"The Everlasting Whisper"
Jackson Gregory
Great eyebrows overhung his face, like ivy on a pollard oak, and under them two large brown eyes, as of an owl when Muting.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore
No, no; the privacy of a French sleeping-car is all very well, but for decency give our friend a good, old-fashioned Pullman sleeper at a third the money, with its curtains swaying with the motion of the car and Muting the long-drawn, loud-drawn breathing of the serried sleepers behind them.
"Imaginary Interviews"
W. D. Howells