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She tried to scream, but couldn't raise her voice above a muffled whimper.
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The Establishment puts its ear to the door, straining to catch W.'s muffled whimpers into his pillow: "This is just so much harder than y'all said it would be.
I didn't wake up covered in sweat, wondering if the sounds in my head -- the sounds of muffled cries, of grown men whimpering like children -- would ever stop.
Those curiously self-subduing ellipses are the diarist's own; they are more than merely a literary effect — they signify a child's muffled bleat against confinement, the last whimper of a prisoner in a cage.
She says this as if her daughter's cry could rouse a cadaver, even though most of the time it's relatively muffled compared with that of other babies: a fine, steady whimper.
Muffled ringtone?
You whimper.
Muffled voices, gunshot, shriek.
[Muffled voices.] O.K. madam.
Bang or whimper?
The merest whimper.
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