"When my arm got numb I couldn't keep his head up;" and he swallowed more whiskey.

Kate counted upon her father's aid, active or passive; but when her messenger returned from Willard's with word that Mr. Boone had gone from the hotel several days before, she was numb with a dreadful foreboding.

glad Saint In like espousals, blessed upon Earth, And she her fruit forth bring; No numb chill-hearted shaken-witted thing, 'Plaining his little span.

A grisly troop are seen, The painful family of Death, More hideous than their Queen: This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo, Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age.

Both heart and mind lay mercifully numb under the anaesthetic of the shock.

The Speech of Alcibiades to the Athenians, printed in the Whig-Examiner, Numb. 3. 11.

just Heaven regards my fault, Numbs my cold limbs, and hardens into salt!

But nowat lastthe gray mist chokes And numbs me.

He must rely on his instinct, not numb and bewilder it by constantly subjecting it to the dictates of hard-and-fast aesthetic theory.

His eyes had grown heavy, his brain a trifle numb.

None of my field postcards had arrived and she was suffering extreme nervous strain from the long anxiety and suspense, which she had tried in vain to numb by feverish work in her hospital.

They seemed heavy and numb, and he was growing oh, so tired!

The next moment he had caught the thing as it fell and was holding it tenderly in his numb hands.

His arms had grown like lead and had lost their strength, and his legs were swept and twisted away from his control and were numb and useless.

In vain the vivifying orb of day Darts on th' impervious ice his fervent ray; Cold, keen as chains the oceans of the Pole, Numbs the shrunk frame, and chills the vig'rous soul 10 At length they reach luxuriant Chili's plain, Where ends the dreary bound of winter's reign; Where spring sheds odours thro' th' unvaried year, And bathes the flower of summer, with her tear.

in the vale of years beneath, A grisly troop are seen, The painful family of Death, More hideous than their queen: This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage; Lo! Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age.

Numb., xxiii, 19.

Lo in the vale of years beneath A grisly troop are seen, The painful family of Death, More hideous than their queen: This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every laboring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo, Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow consuming Age.

Aren't you going to disappear, that I may come down from this cold pedestal, where my paws are growing numb? TOBY-DOG, (enthusiastically to THE LITTLE DOG)

One division, two divisions, four ships, eight Dreadnoughtseven a squadron coming out of a harbour numbs the faculties with a sense of its might.

Bowed down by the loss of a wife, on whom he had called from amidst the horrors of a hopeless melancholy, to "hide him from the ills of life," and depressed by poverty, "that numbs the soul with icy hand," his genius sank not beneath a load, which might have crushed the loftiest; but the "incumbrances of his fortune were shaken from his mind, 'as dew-drops from a lion's mane.'

The frost-king ties my fumbling feet, Sings in my ears, my hands are stones, Curdles the blood to the marble bones, Tugs at the heartstrings, numbs the sense, Hems in the life with narrowing fence.

Pendleton's limbs were beginning to feel loggy and numb because of the chill and the continued inaction.

He thrilled in a strange, numb way at the immaculate whiteness of her small even teeth.

He looked at her, numb and hungry with the stir of the father-love, sorry for his ill temper, puzzling his brain for something to say.