Sometimes a "fielder," whose sense of feelin' wasen't very acute, got hold of a cobble stun, then he would waddle, and grope his way about, to find the base.

" The man did as he was bidden, and presently Little John opened his eyes and looked around him, all dazed and bewildered with the stun of the blow.

I said to Davidson, over there in Hoytville, 'If I thought you would herd my sheep and lambs and calves together, and take them one by one in sight of the rest, and stick your knife into them, or stun them, and have the others lowing, and bleating, and crying in their misery, this is the last consignment you would ever get from me.'

Rustem, meanwhile, the thickening tumult hears And in his heart, untouched by human fears, Says: "What is this, that feeling seems to stun!

With bruised and aching knuckles to prove that the blow had been one to stun an ox, Lanyard believed it safe to count Dupont hors de combat, for a time at least.

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

Lord HERVEY then rose up and spoke to the following effect:My lords, it is always the last resource of ministers to call those measures necessary which they cannot show to be just; and when they have tried all the arts of fallacy and illusion, and found them all baffled, to stand at bay, because they can fly no longer, look their opponents boldly in the face, and stun them with the formidable sound of necessity.

He walked up and down like a man with a raging toothache, and arter follering 'im up and down the wharf till I was tired out, I discovered that 'is father-in-law 'ad got 'imself mixed up with a widder-woman ninety years old and weighing twenty stun.

Arter he 'ad cooled down a bit, and I 'ad given 'im a few little pats on the shoulder, 'e made it forty-eight years old and fourteen stun.

What sounds of brazen wheels, what thunder, scare, And stun the reader with the din of war!

In the same moment of time, the whistling had burst into a mad screaming note, that seemed to stun me, even where I stood, outside of the window.

Creasing consists in sending a bullet through the gristle of the mustang's neck, just above the bone, so as to stun the animal.

He would creep up silently behind men and women, and stun them with a blow of his paw.

Stun his dull ears with praises of her grace; Prick his dull heart with shame at his own coldness.

This poor beast turned swiftly from side to side as we strove to stun it with a blow on the nose.

You can't be civil to a man unless you're dressed up fit to stun him, as though you couldn't make fool enough of him without the aid of clothes at all.

The attention of a new comer is generally first struck by the multiplicity of cries that stun him in the streets, and the variety of merchandize and manufactures which the shopkeepers expose on every hand; and he is apt, by unwary bursts of admiration, to excite the merriment and contempt of those who mistake the use of their eyes for effects of their understanding, and confound accidental knowledge with just reasoning.

The birds of Paradise, which are brought from the east side of the island, appeared to be plentiful; they are shot by the natives (from whom the traders purchase them for one rupee each) with blunt arrows, which stun them without injuring the plumage, and are then skinned and dried.

They storm the earth and stun the air, A mob of solid bliss.

I didn't see no stun up here that was fit for quarryin'.

Every stun in this place was whittled out 'f the ruff-scuff at the bottom of the mounting, 'n' fetched up here in blankets on men's shoulders.

*atender a* heed, listen to; attend *atento* attentive; *su y seguro servidor* sincerely yours *atisbar* take a peep; spy out *atrás* backwards *atravesar* cross; pierce *atreverse a* dare *atrevido* bold *atribuir* attribute *atufarse* be angry *aturdir* stun, bewilder *aún* yet; still; even; when placed before the word modified it is written without the accent *aunque* although *ausencia*

"A naval battle between Russia and Japan would draw; if I could fix some floats on the creek my stun boat could represent Russia, and Deacon Huffer's Japan, I jest as lives mine would be blowed up and sunk as not, 'tain't good for much.

Well, when we stood on the stun balcony over the spot where the central cascade gushes out, what a seen lay spread out before us.

She does stun one; that is exactly it.