Whatever is due next from my five-a-day.
For those not familiar with the five-a-day concept these are: Breakfast, Lunch, Tea, Dinner, and Supper. As long as you make sure you get all five every day, you will never starve.
Just my two pennorth (yes UK money):
Muffled is a perfectly good word for what you want. OED says "Wrap up (a thing) so as to deaden its sound. Limit the audibility of, deaden (a sound). e.g. E. L. Doctorow "All the sounds of the city were muffled by the snow."
Another word with much the same connotations is Stifled e.g. R. Kipling "Fog…stifled the roar of the traffic."
Yet another is Smothered "Be suffocated or stifled; be prevented from breathing freely."
I wrote a textbook on Computer Security some years ago, but now it is out of date and out of print.
Yes - but it was more to do with alcohol consumption than sexual worries.
It was Oscar Wilde who summed up some of my writing days perfectly:
"I spent the morning inserting a comma. Then I spent the afternoon taking it out again."
On another short story site when copyright was being discussed one author (MathGirl for those who remember her) came up with: "I just wish someone liked one of my stories enough to steal it. I would be so flattered."
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
Epicurus (Greek philosopher, BC 341-270)
When the three year old comes into the bedroom and asks "Daddy, what are you doing to mummy?"
P.S. was that really half a century ago? I still blush to think of it.
Can read your heart at three paces.
Being now an old man, I was looking for female company before the permissive era.
The thrill when one finger of the hand stroking her front was first allowed to touch the top edge of her pubic hair is something I remember to this day.
