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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Asphyxiated.

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Examples

  • Brother, thou art a Man, I think; thou are not a mere building Beaver, or two-legged Cotton-Spider; thou hast verily a Soul in thee, asphyxied or otherwise!

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Hunger-stricken asphyxied hearts, which have nourished themselves on what they call religions, Christian religions.

    Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Voice of Eternity, if thou be not a blasphemer and poor asphyxied mute, speaks with that tongue of thine!

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Alas, he thinks that man has a soul in him, _different_ from the stomach in any sense of this word; that if said soul be asphyxied, and lie quietly forgotten, the man and his affairs are in a bad way.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • The awakened soul of man, all but the asphyxied soul of man, turns from it as from worse than death.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Alas, he thinks that man has a soul in him, _different_ from the stomach in any sense of this word; that if said soul be asphyxied, and lie quietly forgotten, the man and his affairs are in a bad way.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Voice of Eternity, if thou be not a blasphemer and poor asphyxied mute, speaks with that tongue of thine!

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • He that has a soul unasphyxied will never want a religion; he that has a soul asphyxied, reduced to a succedaneum for salt, will never find any religion, though you rose from the dead to preach him one.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • The awakened soul of man, all but the asphyxied soul of man, turns from it as from worse than death.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • 'All religion issues in due Practical Hero-worship: He that has a soul unasphyxied will never want a religion; he that has a soul asphyxied, reduced to a succedaneum for salt, will never find any religion, though you rose from the dead to preach him one.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

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