Discouraging thoughts they are like unto cold weather, they benumb the senses, and make us go ungainly about our business; but the sweet and warm gleads8 of promise are like the comfortable beams of the sun, which liven and refresh.
They benumb and paralyze not only the physical organism, but also the higher and highest mental and moral qualities, capacities and powers.
Epileptic attacks and other forms of convulsions are suppressed, but never cured, by bromides which benumb and paralyze the brain and nerve centers.
As these accumulate in the organism during the hours of wakeful activity, they gradually clog the capillary circulation, benumb brain and nerves, and thus produce a feeling of exhaustion and tiredness and a craving for rest and sleep.
O Victor and Clotilda, when the lilies of the earth benumb me and put me into the last slumber, then adopt ye my blind Julius, and let this soul full of love be guarded by your loving souls!
The same thing may be said of the gross ignorance and stupidity which, in a civilized society, seem so frequently to benumb the understandings of all the inferior ranks of people.
Invention is kept alive, and the mind is not suffered to fall into that drowsy stupidity, which, in a civilized society, seems to benumb the understanding of almost all the inferior ranks of people.
PAGE 49 Chapter 10 Preparation and Surgery "If only one did not have to think during the long periods of uncertainty and ignorance, and could somehow benumb the senses until the hours of darkness had passed!
If only one did not have to think during the long periods of uncertainty and ignorance, and could somehow benumb the senses until the hours of darkness had passed!
It is not impossible to stultify andbenumb the mind by too much novel-reading; but of this there is no need.
It is possible to judge, to examine, to weigh, to estimate the emotions which are enjoyed aesthetically; whereas emotions arising from real events benumb all critical faculties by their stinging personal quality.
You may be assured that the only prickles that sting from the Royal hedgehog are those which possess a torpedo property, and may benumbsome of my friends.
The action brought about by its use is simply to benumb the nervous activity and interfere with the natural action of the system to throw off the poison, which is expressed by the chill.
They do not seek his advice upon those points; what they want is a drug that will benumb uneasy sensations while they live as they please.
The nature of such drugs as alcohol, opium and cocaine is to benumb sensation, so that pain is stilled, and the pain, or functional disturbance forgotten for the time, because the nerves are drugged into insensibility.
The world's forces began to benumb and appall him.
He would have wheeled his steed about and fled, but an ice-cold hand seemed to clutch at his heart, benumb his senses and paralyze his endeavors.
At her words he gradually shook off the lethargy which seemed to benumbhis senses.
And then it seemed not sleep, but rather a deep trance, that seemed to hold him enthralled, seemed to benumb his limbs and deprive him of all energy, as if some opiate had been mingled with his draught.
Men benumb themselves in work, in pleasure, in the foolery of morality, as it is termed.
He could not shout, for he felt that suffocation must ensue; his eyes and ears seemed bursting as from some stunning weight; and a deadly faintness seemed to benumb his limbs.
A chill as of death seemed to benumb Eckhardt's limbs.
The cold, he feared, would benumb him so that he might drop off into the sea, to the infinite joy and satisfaction of a gang of unprincipled sharks that kept up with the ship, but to the everlasting sorrow of him, Captain Silas Grig.
The intense cold, that soon began to benumb the senses of Sandie, seemed to have no deterrent effect on his efforts.
The essential pedantic stupidity of Aristotle's logic, and its power to belittle and benumb the intelligence of its reverential students has been shown in every college where this effete study is kept up.
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