Since that supreme loss the wretched accountant had been living on in a state of imbecile stupefaction, simply discharging his duties in a mechanical sort of way from force of habit.

It was all so brutally sudden, so utterly unexpected, that at first the stupefaction of Marianne and Mathieu was greater than their despair.

It is like a sudden snapping, a rending of the hopes which seemed to be endless, and a feeling of stupefaction comes at the discovery that one cannot live and love forever!

Mathieu and Marianne reappeared, while Morange, seized with a need of motion, came and went with an air of stupefaction, quite losing his wits amid his dreadful sufferings, those awful things which could but unhinge his narrow mind.

Amid her stupefaction at finding the breach repaired when scarce opened, Constance realized her powerlessness and nothingness, childless as she was fated to remain.

He persuaded Beauchene to join him in the inspection, and the three men were starting, when Constance and Valentine, somewhat inquisitive with respect to that farm, the great growth of which still filled them with stupefaction, decided to follow, leaving the rest of the family installed under the trees, amid the smiling peacefulness of that fine afternoon.

"Gone!" said the Professor, in stupefaction.

He's as innercent as Mary's little lamb, and so am I." The squatters gazed at each other in stupefaction.

To her stupefaction, the man smiled politely and informed her that the document was genuine.

These decisions, asked of Peter, kept pricking him and breaking through the stupefaction of this sudden tragedy.

In this way, while I listened between stupefaction and rapture, a considerable time had elapsed; till at last the spirit departed, as I learned from the words of Torquato; who, turning to me, said, 'From this day forward all your doubts will have vanished from your mind.'

Infatuate loiterer, has fate, in vain, Unclasp'd his iron gripe to set thee free? Still dost thou flutter in the jaws of death; Snar'd with thy fears, and maz'd in stupefaction? DEMETRIUS.

The fire broke out in the lantern, and burning downwards, drove the men, who in vain attempted to extinguish it, from chamber to chamber; until at last, to avoid the falling of the timber, and the red hot bolts, they took refuge in a cave on the east side of the rock, where they were found at low water in a state little short of stupefaction, and conveyed to Plymouth.

And as the body of his victim was brought forth, Parravicin fell against the wall in a state almost of stupefaction.

Even in the blankness of her stupefaction, Sylvia was aware of a rising note in his voice that was by no means dismay.

In France, during the last two centuries, when torturing the accused was in vogue, some individuals were found to be insensible to the most fearful tortures, and some even, who were plunged into a species of somnolence or stupefaction, slept in the hands of the executioner.

To describe the delirious stupefaction of Marimonda, when she perceives her master under this strange costume, would be a thing impossible.

And instantly he started up, and seizing his sword, stood gazing at her with stupefaction.

Think over, I beseech you, this fact of the stupefying effect of mere material civilization; and remember that plenty and comfort do not diminish but increase that stupefaction; that Hebrew prophets knew it, and have told us, again and again, that, by fulness of bread the heart waxeth gross; that Greek sages knew it, and have told us, again and again, that need, and not satiety, was the quickener of the human intellect.

Upon coming out from the stupefaction of her grief, Doña Cristina looked around her with aversion.

Then, as though she pitied his stupefaction, she made further explanations.

Could it see him? He stood for perhaps a minute in a state of stupefaction.

I have all my life been merciful, ever giving the blow of mercy first, and the drop of stupefaction before the Extreme Question.

"Will Mr. Wilkeson tell us about what time he left this house that night, and where he went?" Marcus raised his sunken head, and shook it, as if to dispel a stupefaction.

Before this fire the two ladies sat down together like watchers, in that silence and vacuity of mind which come after an exhaustive struggle ending in the recognition of the inevitable; a torpor of thought, a stupefaction of feeling, a purely negative state of joylessness sequent to the positive state of anguish.