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1. In a tiny way.

   Robert Loo indeed sat as though trying to weave silence round himself, two tufts of cotton wool ineffectual valves, for the noise dwindled from a lion to ants as it met the soft obstacles, but, marching tinily rather than leaping with spread claws, still entered.

   1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 472