And the posse was dumbfounded.

As we stood there dumbfounded at the disappearance of the body, the Highlander's quick glance caught something, and stooping he picked it up and examined the little object by the aid of his lantern.

I stood before her dumbfounded in admiration.

The latter was so thoroughly dumbfounded that a decently-smart boy could have blown him over without any apparent effort.

For a moment he stood dumbfounded, but then, with a cry, jerked up his guna quick movement, but a fraction of a second too slow, for the hand of Dan darted out and his knuckles struck the wrist of the old cattleman.

He was dumbfounded.

I couldn't speak, I was so b'ilin' and so dumbfounded both at once.

In amazement she asked, "Eliza, where are you going?" and was dumbfounded when I answered, "To find another home for us.

The jeweller stood dumbfounded on the landing; then he heard the window go up and the voice of Brother Burge, much strengthened by the religious exercises of the past six months, bellowing lustily for the police.

In due course of time the mortar was taken to the envious and suspicious sculptor, who stood dumbfounded before it, and told the customer that there was nothing left but to carry this masterpiece of carving back to him who fashioned it, and order a plain article for himself.

I was dumbfounded.

He was too dumbfounded to grasp all that was said, but he recovered his senses in time to hear the Mayor assuring his audience that it gave him great pleasure, indeed he might go so far as to say the very greatest pleasure, to welcome on behalf of their town one who had upheld with such distinction and bravery the reputation and honour of the community.

She was dumbfounded.

He was dumbfounded.

Indignant, dismayed, and dumbfounded at such desertion, Charles retired to his castle of La Riviere, between Pontarlier and Joux, and shut himself up there for more than six weeks, without, however, giving up the attempt to collect soldiers.

"Those who treated with him," says Commynes, "told me, turning him to scorn and ridicule, that they were dumbfounded at his so readily granting so great a matter and what they were not prepared for."

And I trow that, when news came to Rome of the battle lost at Cannae against Hannibal, the senators who had remained there were not more dumbfounded and dismayed than these were; for not a single one made sign of seeing me, or spoke to me one word, save the duke (the doge), who asked me if the king would keep to that of which he had constantly sent them word, and which I had said to them.

The Swiss, dumbfounded at so unexpected an apparition, fell back to Novara, the scene of that victory which two years previously had made them so proud.

Not a drum was sounded; No personage, no panoply, no pep; Only a single private who expounded My pathway out, and I went forth dumbfounded; Merely remembering to mind the step.

The regular speaker was dumbfounded.

My reason, before this sovereign decision, was humbled and dumbfounded.

Like the old king, Des Esseintes remained dumbfounded, overwhelmed and seized with giddiness, in the presence of this dancer who was less majestic, less haughty but more disquieting than the Salome of the oil painting.

" Baldassare was dumbfounded.

"Your own Hector will protect you!" Already the door of the carriage had been violently torn open; the next moment a gruff voice called out peremptorily: "By order of the Chief Commissary of Police!" I was dumbfounded.

#stupéfait, -e#, dumbfounded.