Never-never did I swelter under such a stifler in my life.
"Phemie Frost's Experiences"
Ann S. Stephens
Husband grew to mean to me stifler, lung-contractor, iron mask, inquisitor, everything anti-natural.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
The crisp silence of the seashore when absolute calm prevails is as different from the strained, sodden, padded silence of the jungle as the savour of olives from the raw insipidity of white of egg, for the cumbersome mantle of leafage is the surest stifler of noise, the truest cherisher of silence.
"My Tropic Isle"
E J Banfield