"Stupefying" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... us so long together snapped for ever and a new bond was forged in its place, for she had spoken my name, and as the fever tortured her, her heart poured out its load of hidden sorrow. Amazed and dumb I bowed my head, while my face burned like a live coal, and the blood surged in my ears, stupefying me with its clamour. Incapable of movement, incapable of speech, I listened to her feverish words in an agony of shame and sorrow. I could not silence her, I could not look at Boris. Then I felt an arm upon ...
— The King In Yellow • Robert W. Chambers
... view the body, and take a drop of the cratur to drink repose to the shoul of their countryman; and to complete the group, they were at-tended by the journeyman Jack Ketch. The noise and confusion were almost stupefying—there ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... events, forming a series of catastrophes unparalleled in the annals of war, are still fresh in the minds of our readers, for they have followed one upon the other with almost stupefying rapidity, and it is yet hardly six weeks since the Cossacks and Uhlans were engaged in their first skirmish ...
— The Angel of the Revolution - A Tale of the Coming Terror • George Griffith
... free al-Islam," he continues, "from its degrading customs, its stupefying traditions, its ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani
... silence. Effect of announcement, unexpected, momentous, was stupefying. Then a cheer, strident, almost savage in its passion, burst from serried ranks of Ministerialists. One leaped up and waved a copy of Orders of the Day. In an instant all were ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 • Various
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