This afternoon the helplessness was more wretchedly benumbingthan ever: she longed for objects who could be dear to her, and to whom she could be dear.
Not his oath held him back, but benumbing fear,—and what sting lay back of Lycon’s hints and threats the orator knew best.
But disheartening, benumbing beyond all personal anguish was the dread for Hellas.
The moments of suspense were trying to his nerves, and he had a shrewd notion that this making men wait was a favourite manoeuvre of Eldon Parr's; nor had he underrated the benumbing force of that personality.
At least four criminally wasted years, to say nothing of the benumbing and desiccating effect of that old system of education!
He seated himself at his desk, and sat for a moment gazing at me with a curious and benumbing expression, and then the blow fell.
The air was perfectly still, but the frost gripped each limb with benumbing fury.
Agreed, both, in keeping woman nailed to the cross of a now perverse social system, the former seeks to assuage her agony with the benumbing balm of resignation, the latter to relieve her torture with the blister of libertinage.
Thus science solidifies a poetic-moral yearning, once held imprisoned in the benumbing shell of theological dogma, and reflects its morality in the poetic expression of the monogamic family.
Strychnin is quite different in its effects from the above-mentioned alkaloids, for instead of benumbing the nerves, causing sleep or a pleasing sensation, the effect is a nerve stimulus which causes muscular convulsions.
Sidenote: Effect of opium] The effect upon the body of either opium or of morphin is that of benumbing the nerves and producing sleep.
Her body recoiled in response to a like impulse of her soul that shrank from the benumbing misanthropism that sought to lay its cold dead fingers on her heart.
Thus, until the day when Dorlan came, Columbia sat chained on the one side by benumbing pessimism and on the other by deferred hope.
But, aside from the effect on the individual, what benumbing consequences are entailed upon the nation by the idleness of so large a number of its people.
He wondered how she was passing the evening, whether, from under the benumbing effects of the blow she had suffered, she were still sending a thought, a hope for success in his direction.
Strange to say, there had been no benumbing effect of her sorrow.
His speech held at command a certain strange, almost benumbing magnetism, a compelling response, such as one experiences in the after-vibrations of a great bell.
She had nothing to do but the easiest of all things, just to do nothing, and all this benumbing misery would be at an end.
It was unlike any other room at Lynbrook--even through her benumbing misery, Justine felt the relief of escaping there from the rest of the great soulless house.
Bessy, too, was in the clutch of a mute anger which slowly poured its benumbing current around her heart.
Long himself frequently inhaled the drug and often felt its benumbing effects.
I have also succeeded in reducing the excitatory depression by previously benumbing the tissue by physiological means.
A scrambling bound or two and the final height is gained, but in the pivoting instant between danger and safety a third bullet scores the horse's back and embeds itself in the cantle of the saddle with a benumbing shock to the rider.
But the benumbing influence is not the gravest danger; analogies of speech suggest a graver still.
It was slow to come, but was none the less violent that it had been preceded by the benumbing shock of shame and pride.
A benumbing peace seemed to fall from the crumbling walls; the peace of utter seclusion, isolation, oblivion, death!
But scarcely had he written the first word when a wave of passion swept over his soul, benumbing his energies: he knew that he was as powerless to renounce her as he was to carry out any other resolve.
From the garden breathed a benumbing odour, and from the far distance floated towards the pair, like a yearning sigh, the song of the Venetian night-minstrels.
I have a degree of vivacity, even in my grief, which is preferable to the benumbing stupour that, for the last year, has frozen up all my faculties.
But with what different emotions did I return from the busy world, with a heavy weight of experience benumbing my imagination, to scenes, that whispered recollections of joy and hope most eloquently to my heart!
My arm was so paralyzed that I could not move it for a quarter of a minute; when, as it began to recover from the benumbing effects of the shock, it tingled in a way that was agonizing.
On the contrary, with venomous guile, they always compensate in the renewed intensity of woe, for the time they may have succeeded in benumbing it.
