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Examples
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An old and ominously muffled-up figure tells them where to find Death, and they rush off and find a heap of gold coins under a tree.
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I observed on one side a motionless, muffled-up figure.
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I went up to the muffled-up figure, and gently took the dark hood off her head.
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From the vicinity of the guard-room the muffled-up figure of a man, with head down against the driving blizzard, padded noiselessly with moccasined feet up the pathway leading to the main building.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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The two muffled-up figures seen in the background of the station are emissaries of
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891 Various
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It seems hard to imagine that early every morning muffled-up, shivering forms wait anxiously for
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross
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As Eccles descended from the bridge, a great-coated muffled-up figure, followed by a large dog, swung himself up the ladder.
The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson 1917
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She was peering, not ahead at the darkening, rising sea but at the form and face of every muffled-up passenger who came near them.
Wide Courses 1912
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A carriage starter for the café, in gorgeous livery, understood without being told what the tall muffled-up gentleman desired and blew a shrill blast on a whistle.
From Place to Place 1910
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"Slaves, slaves, just like slaves," she would think, watching the muffled-up figures continually bending over their work; "and they're digging graves, graves."
A Girl of the Klondike Victoria Cross 1910
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