We waited there, together, she and I; speechless, for very sorrow.

" Staring from one to the other in speechless wonder at what this fresh outrage upon the down-trodden South could mean, MONTGOMERY allowed them to replace his Indian club in his hand, and conduct him back to the public road; where, to his increased bewilderment, he found Gospeler SIMPSON and the Ritualistic organist.

Barney stared in speechless amazement at the unseemly gambols of the motley mass.

The significance of the situation was what held me speechless.

Then, as I stared at him, still unready and speechless, the light died out of his eyes, his lips relaxed, and his hand went up to arrange the lace at his throat.

Some were dazed and speechless, some deafened, and yet, strange to say, said a correspondent, no face wore the terrible animal war look.

Others, thinking that those dear to them had died previously, saw them now unexpectedly and for a long time knew not what to do but were rendered speechless, distrusting their sight yet praying that it might be true; and they were not sure of them until they had called their names and had heard them say something.

I had occasion to rebuke her on the preceding night, and, following the dictates of an ungodly nature and a perverse pride, she chose to leave the shelter of this roof" Mr. Wordley sprang to his feet, his passion rendering him speechless for a moment.

" The quiet conviction of her tone left me for a while speechless with horror and despair.

" Dr. Norbury started back and stared at Thorndyke in speechless amazement.

He looked at his visitor, speechless for a moment.

Dredlinton, who had been speechless for the last few seconds, gazed with horror-stricken eyes at the third chair.

Wingate himself was speechless.

The commandant and the lawyer sat speechless, gazing.

Miss Claire ordered all the heat turned out here, (patiently explaining it to MISS CLAIRE's speechless husband)

"Well" "She hasn't been trying to drown herself, has she?" Hilda nodded, and, speechless, moved towards the house.

She shook her head, speechless.

He would startle you at one moment by his penetrating handling of the facts of a great situation, and the next moment would make you speechless with some staggering story of spirit visitors or starry conspiracies that seemed to him just as actual as the pavement on which he walked.

Adj. aphonous^, dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-tied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish^, mute as a mackerel; silent &c (taciturn) 585; muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible. croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven; rough.

We collided violently as we reached the spot where the rope had circled Edith Herndon's waist, and we stood, stunned and speechless, as we fingered the cord.

"How much?" The man told him, and the captain, after a few stern remarks about privacy and harpies, left the room with his friends, leaving the speechless Mr. Kybird gazing at the broken glass and returning evasive replies to the inquiries of the curious Charles.

" Mr. Nugent eyed him for a space in speechless amazement, and then, with a few strong remarks on ingratitude and senile vanity, mounted the winding little stairs and went to bed.

She was speechless and demented, and at the sight of her dear son's crimson blood colouring the fresh verdure where he had fallen, she lost her reason, and her cries and shrieks resounded through the forest.

Maria, though for a time speechless, was speedily, through the exertions of her deliverer, restored to consciousness.

The Starmen were speechless.