120 examples of dumbly in sentences

The cow-men looked around and stared dumbly, dazedly, at her.

For the young Indian loved her dumbly, without any hope of reward, in much the same way that some of her rough soldiers must have loved Joan of Arc.

Their eyes turned dumbly to McRae for instructions.

She opened them abruptly to find Aunt Amy staring down upon her, dumbly, wringing her hands.

Minutes later, when Avery was lying back exhausted, no longer sobbing, only dumbly weeping, there came a gentle knock at the door.

Piers waited dumbly, afraid to move, afraid to speak.

" I stared at the man dumbly.

" Mr. Teak, wondering as to the operations of Mr. Chase, agreed dumbly.

But I held her, dumbly; and the blood to go the more from me; and they not to know what should be done.

And there was brought to me a loose garment; but I to refuse the garment, dumbly, and did look about me very troubled and forgetting.

I nodded dumbly.

But it was not in the far days of Chivalry alone, I think, that true and tender souls have stood in the world unwelcome, and, hurt to the quick, have turned away and dumbly died.

As for Donnington, he was staring at her dumbly

If Mark Gifford wanted to see you why couldn't he come here?" Blanche looked at him dumbly.

" She led him down the avenue of roses, every line of her graceful figure rebuking his insufficiency, and he followed dumbly, aware of it.

Almost as though impelled against his will to do so he spread this one flat before him and sat staring at it, dumbly waiting.

Dumbly he gazed around The foe-encircled ground; And, with a lazy gape, He stretch'd his lordly shape, And shook his careless mane, Andlaid him down again!

And, you know, all this was dumb, raged dumbly within him, could not even, had he met a fellow giant, have found outlet and expression in speech.

Here one and another groaned, and another and another dumbly fell.

The dream was true on its face, a belated perception awakened by bitterness of soul, and Madame, as she sat dumbly marvelling at its tardiness, chafed the more against each minute's present delay, seeing that now to know if Kincaid, or if Anna, held the treasure was her liveliest hankering.

Yet dumbly, rigidly it denied the truth, for Hilary, having reaped its spoil, had, to baffle his jailors, cunningly made it fast.

So perilously adjusted is the ludicrous to the sublime, that while the secretary wondered dumbly whether the word "housekeeper" might also in Skale's new world connote "angel," he could have laughed aloud, had not the nobility of the spectacle hinted at the same time that he should have wept.

Once outside the hotel he raised his haggard face to heaven and dumbly queried of the Almighty what He meant by saving him from quick death on the field of honor only to condemn him to be talked to death by B. Cohens in civil life.

A bat flitters dumbly by.

She held out her hand to him in silence, and he, stooping, pressed it dumbly against his lips.

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