I went down in it, hearing yells and a spitting fire, but feeling only numbness.

After a transient swoon, recovering his footing, experiencing only a general numbness, and some pain caused by the contusions resulting from his fall, he bethinks himself of the means of escape.

These organs, if long wrong, will affect the spinal chord, producing lumbar numbness.

The Ramblin' Kid started to hand the cup to Gyp to be refilleda queer numbness swept over himthe cup fell from his handhe swayedtensed his body in an effort to get upmumbled thickly: "What th'what th'?" The tout backed away toward the door, crouching like a cat ready to spring, his beady eyes half-frightened, watching the poison deaden the faculties of the other.

They also pretended to draw a good or bad omen from the most trifling actions or occurrences of life, as sneezing, stumbling, starting, numbness of the little finger, the tingling of the ear, the spilling of salt upon the table, or the wine upon one's clothes, the accidental meeting of a bitch with whelp, etc.

When at evening, the dull, leaden hue of the clouds seemed to make the air dark and cold and heavy, we walked beside the swollen and turbid Rhone, under an avenue of leafless trees, the damp soil chilling our feet and striking a numbness through our frames, and then I knew what those must feel who have no hope in their destitution, and not a friend in all the great world, who is not wretched as themselves.

He stumbled a few steps out into the snow, the numbness in his limbs forcing him to catch at trees and saplings to save himself from falling.

The deep pressure on the nerve of the arm will put the arm "asleep," causing numbness and tingling.

Bobby threw off his recent numbness.