The girls were still regarded with curious looks when they wandered into the village on an errand, and Mr. Merrick and Major Doyle inspired a certain amount of awe; but time had dulled the edge of marvelous invasion and the city people were now accepted as a matter of course.

Charge not my Soul with so remiss a flame, So dull a sense of Virtue to refuse it.

It was chloroform he wanted to dull the pain that dressing his severed nerves entailed.

The men's eyes ached and the intolerable sun pierced their double hats and dulled their brains.

The motion of the vehicle, the warmth of the day, and the odorous breath of flowers and shrubs gradually dulled his mischievous spirits, and he slept tranquilly until the carriage drew up at the wharf at Harrison's Landing, whence, taken on a primitive ferry, they in an hour or more arrived at a long wooden pier extending into the river.

"Heaven would not dull its brightness with those, nor would lower hell receive them.

Though love is strong to bring thee nigh, Ambition makes thee doubt; Ambition dulls the prophet-eye; It casts the unseen out.

Terror had dulled all faculties save the one overmastering instinct of self-preservation.

The crowded events of the day had somehow or other dulled his power of concentrated thought.

Be friendly, but not common; don't dull your palm by effusively shaking hands with every chance newcomer.

One from a lucid urn of starry dew Washed his light limbs, as if embalming them; Another dipt her profuse locks, and threw The wreath upon him, like an anadem Which frozen tears instead of pearls begem; 5 Another in her wilful grief would break Her bow and wingèd reeds, as if to stem A greater loss with one which was more weak, And dull the barbèd fire against his frozen cheek.

No ChanceNo Hope] "If she have sent her servants in our pain, If she have fought with Death and dulled his sword, If she have given back our sick again And to the breast the weakling lips restored, Is it a little thing that she has wrought?

The thought, like cold steel, lay against her heart and dulled its beating.

God had dulled their understanding and blinded their eyes for some good purpose of his own.

The sky was one unbroken pall of gray, Casting a gloom upon the restless sea, Dulling her sapphire splendour to a dark And minor beauty.

" Cooking is generally bad because people falling to routine; habit dulls their appreciation, and they do not think about what they are eating.

Later, she would understand how custom, the life-long habit of regarding the minister as a man apart, had helped to dull her perception.

I asked myself, Is it that I have been blind and deaf and dull all my life, and am just waking into real existence?

He who lends wings of hope, while secretly He spreads a traitorous snare by the wayside, Hath dulled the flame of love, and mortified Friendship where friendship burns most fervently.

For a symbol may remind us of the truth, and at the same time obscure itpresent it, and dull its effect.

Before I had sometimes been able to dull my emotions in unpleasant circumstances and thus achieve a dogged calm; now I was horribly conscious of my physical sensations, and, above all, of that deadly sinking in my stomach called fear.

Similarly he would dismiss the Pretorians and then send for them again, would leave the palace to retire to his brother's house and then return: in this way he dulled the enthusiasm of almost everybody interested in him.

Sleep won upon him, dulled the excitements of the past twenty-four hours, sank him into oblivion.

To make too large an explanation of this following Poem were but to beguile thy appetite and somewhat dull thy expectation; but the work it selfe being now an Orphant, and wanting him to protect that first begot it, it were an iniury to his memory to passe him unspoken of.

What a Dishonour's this to me, to have so dull a Father, that needs to be instructed in his Duty. Guil.