I found myself completely benumbed with cold; a smart walk, however, soon put the blood in circulation, and ere long we entered a shanty where we experienced the usual hospitality of these generous folks.
I rouse that heart benumbed by pain And call to vigorous life again.
The frost of night, the rime of dawn Bind flowerless trees and glades of lawn: Benumbed in apathetic chill Of icy chains they slumber still.
Try as he would his benumbed brain would not answer to his efforts.
Then, replacing the telephones to his ears, he endeavoured to thaw his benumbedfingers in front of the electric-light globe.
Hastily dragging some rubbers on herbenumbed feet, she splashed her way to the door.
It was midnight, and I was benumbed with cold, as were also our guides: yet the thermometer kept at 19.
They seldom fly; and, from the slowness of their movements, I should have supposed they were benumbed by the cold of the mountains.
They landed in a benumbed and half-frozen state, from the effects of which some of them were sure to suffer severely afterwards.
The little whisky in the house was divided among the benumbed men, and more solid provision set before them.
During the crossing the stifling weight that had benumbed her intellect ever since the man with the dent in his hat came riding up the drive seemed suddenly to lift.
But the dull grief beneath which she still lay benumbed prevented her from other course than tonelessly accepting the proffered sympathy; and the thought of returning to Ireland was impossible.
He remained standing, and as if benumbed by strong feeling.
I could only keep from freezing by the most active exertion in walking, rubbing, and striking my benumbed feet and hands against the logs.
While thus exposed, and suffering from cold and hunger, a little benumbed bird, not larger than a snow-bird, hopped within my reach.
Find the boy they would, benumbed perhaps at the foot of a tree, or huddled up in some sheltering hollow.
Wilfred's benumbed fingers felt in the sugar for a good-sized lump.
In the first stages he has occasional periods of enjoyment; in the latter he has none; he is so benumbed by opium as to be incapable of enjoyment.
The cold soon benumbed him; his feet refused to carry him, and he soon sank down into the snow.
I might as well be captured if I am to have free limbs only to lie behind rocks until they are benumbed from disuse.
As they rose into the more elevated regions, the icy winds that swept down the sides of the Cordilleras benumbed their limbs, and many of the natives found a wintry grave in the wilderness.
If one is benumbedwith cold, take him into a cold room, remove the wet clothes, rub the body dry, cover with blankets, and give a little warm tea or other suitable drink.
On brains benumbed and starving for oxygen, the purest truth and the highest eloquence fall with little force.
Their hands were cold; the cards slipped from Uncle Billy's benumbed fingers; when he had shuffled them he passed them to his partner to shuffle them also, but did not speak.
Mere Pitou, imagining that he was benumbed as the outcome of prolonged exposure to the elements, was minded to rate him soundly; but happily elected instead to pour the torrent of her wrath on things in general.
Their faculties were benumbed by the sharp shock of contact with his horrible pain.
The stranger smiled, took one forward stride, grasped the General's arm, and compelled him to endure a steady gaze which benumbed the soldier's brain and left him powerless.
He went back to the carriage, stretched himself to relieve his benumbed muscles, yawned, looked about him, and finally laid a hand on the arm of a young woman warmly wrapped up in a furred pelisse.
As we neared the summit we met a strong westerly gale that chilled us and benumbed our fingers.
Heating some large stones we placed them at our feet, and closely wrapped in our blankets slept soundly upon the open ground, although we awoke in the morning benumbed and chilled.
For his feet were so completelybenumbed that he had no feeling in them, and when he attempted to rise his ankles gave way under him and let him down again upon the deck.
Then, as the blood once more began to circulate through his benumbed extremities, the pricking and tingling that followed soon grew so excruciatingly painful that he fairly groaned and ground his teeth in agony.
A majority of the rescued presented a pitiable sight, some hardly able to stand on their feet and others, thinly clad and benumbed by the cold, trembled as they were lifted into the boats.
They spread their benumbed fingers over the embers, while the wind shrieks through the fir-trees like the gale through the rigging of a frigate, and the narrow concave of the wigwam sparkles with the frost-work of their congealed breath.
The two remaining warriors bounded into the woods; but the women and children, benumbed with fright, had no power to escape, and one and all died shrieking under the hatchet of the miscreant.
How benumbed she still stood on the same spot where he had shaken her off from him--he had shaken her off!
In a fortnight, your nails will drop off, and your arms will fall from your benumbed and half-dead fingers.
Fortunately the intensity of the cold, which had just completed the discouragement of our people, had also benumbed their enemies.
