1.   His face had been chewed by shrapnel, his jawbone and clavicle were broken and his cries were muffled by an oxygen mask over his mouth.

2.   His face had been chewed by shrapnel, his jawbone and clavicle were broken and his cries were muffled by the oxygen mask over his mouth.

3.   When Ms. Morley began to scream, Lily muffled her cries with a pillow.

4.   Workmen then shoveled earth onto the coffins, and the wails of distraught relatives grew until their cries were muffled by the motor of a bulldozer finishing the job.