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"Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't," Huck says.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ground sloped precipitously; and I was holding back by the underbrush lest the bank led to water when an indistinct sound, a smothery murmur like the gurgle of a subterranean pool, came from below.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

The odor of the ointment was sickeningly sweet, and the mask gave her a hot smothery feeling.

From The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

And in a few seconds, an unexpected breaking of the clouds drove thick smothery, enveloping snow across the plateau.

From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

"It's your set, smothery pessimism that hurts so, Selma," Paula declared intensely.

From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar