She makes me get up just at the same time every morning; she makes me wash, they comb me all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed; I got to wear them blamed clothes that just smothers me, Tom; they don't seem to any air git through 'em, somehow; and they're so rotten nice that I can't set down, nor lay down, nor roll around anywher's; I hain't slid on a cellar-door for—well, it 'pears to be years; I got to go to church and sweat and sweat—I hate them ornery sermons!
Either the ruler demands too much attention, or smothers the children with attention, making them too dependent on the advantages that they receive in the home.
They are property buyers -- households with elderly or young family members -- desperate to find a refuge from the toxic smog that smothers northern China every winter.
Marcy Smothers, a Sonoma County food personality who hosts the radio show "At the Table With Wolf and Smothers," had for years celebrated Mother's Day with a trek to the Kendall-Jackson estate winery to buy 10 new heirloom tomato plants at an annual sale.
