"Because the mind, during such a momentary stupefaction, is in a good measure, if not totally, insensible."Kames, El. of Crit., Vol.

Sheer, open-mouthed stupefaction blurred for an instant the composed, carefully arranged masks of those four exponents of decorum.

And in the dumb stupefaction that overcame them, the roaring tumult at the door was all forgotten.

Yet of this change, so frequent, so great, so general, and so necessary, no searcher has yet found either the efficient or final cause; or can tell by what power the mind and body are thus chained down in irresistible stupefaction; or what benefits the animal receives from this alternate suspension of its active powers.

A daze, a numb stupefaction had fallen on them.

He held up his hand and gazed at it with a queer stupefaction.

Fortunately it was Lanyard's cue to register shock; it would have cost him something to have kept secret his stupefaction.

Sheer, open-mouthed stupefaction blurred for an instant the composed, carefully arranged masks of those four exponents of decorum.

But Miss Caroline would have been dense indeed had she not divined, even amid that informal babbling, that she was being viewed by the ladies of the Club with a shocked stupefaction.

To describe the delirious stupefaction of Marimonda, when she perceives her master under this strange costume, would be a thing impossible.

The baby in the cradle woke up and cried; the boy in the clothes-basket fell over on his back with the basket on him, and was seen no more; the mother wept louder yet and rocked faster; but Kit, insensible to all the din and tumult, remained in a state of utter stupefaction.

Dull stupefaction, and thoughts scurrying like mice, vague terror, and the numbness of expectation and the weight of crushed tears in his heavy-laden breast, on his lips the forced, empty smile, and a meaningless prayeraddressed to no one....