There in the middle of the moonlit valley below them stood the "ha'nted" house, utterly isolated, its fences gone long ago, rank weeds smothering the very doorsteps, the chimney crumbled to ruin, the window-sashes vacant, a corner of the roof caved in.
To the extent that it is genuine,my caring is not smothering of the person or a possessive thing.
Let him see what he can do" The sham doctor asked to be left alone with the sick man, and the request was granted Finding her lover groaning and unconscious in his sickbed, the princess felt like weeping and smothering him with kisses But she restrained herself because of the urgency of carrying out the witch's directions She paced up and down the room until she stepped on a loose tile, which she raised and discovered a phial of ointment With it she rubbed the prince's wounds, and no sooner h
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Bitter as the cud of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, - My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
The way some Chinese parents shower love on their grown-up children can be smothering, but from an outsider's perspective it may look like a black comedy eliciting laughs and tears in equal measure.
