Bruce was so dumfounded by this remarkable development that he could but mutely take the document produced by the baronet and read it.
Had I been suddenly struck blind, or paralyzed, I could not have been more dumfounded than by Alice's unexpected appearance.
She caught the dumfounded expression with which her guest was surveying his surroundings, and gave a merry little laugh.
Turning, he found himself face to face with two smiling people, into whose eyes he stared for an instant in dumfounded blankness.
Accustomed though he is to the success of the show, Will was dumfounded by this attendance.
Up to this point the crowd had been so dumfounded by his temerity that they kept an astonished silence.
Susan had been dumfounded at first, and then she had begun to be afraid that the leniency arose from some mistake Miss Amory would presently discover.
One man after another had dropped in to hear the truth of the story related, and each one had been dumfounded at the outset by Tom's simple statement of fact.
No wonder the young aviator wasdumfounded for the moment.
In those terrifying moments the detective saw another sight,—one that held him dumfounded for a brief interval.
Then she ran away and left him dumfounded in the market place.
Jenny was so dumfounded by the unexpected eloquence of the old man that she could do nothing but stare at him.
Tait opened his mouth to utter an ejaculation, shut it without doing so, and looked dumfounded at his friend.
He stared at her, whirled about, surveyed the vacant landscape, and once more turned dumfounded toward her.
When she came into the house, beaming with joy, the baby holding the glove in his hands, the men listened to her in dumfounded amaze, and with significant side glances at each other.
A moment later he gave an amazed ejaculation and turned on his father a dumfounded face.
She was dumfounded now that he should listen so patiently to the man, Larson,--though she was not more surprised than was Larson himself.
For a few moments the crowd stared in dumfounded amazement; then a startled look in Slade's face showed that he understood.
Culligore stared as if dumfoundedat the other's astuteness, but his lips curled into the faintest grin as soon as Starr averted his gaze.
I'm utterlydumfounded by the unexpected revelation!
Surprised by an infantry that seemed to recognize no defeat, they were dumfounded by an artillery that seemed to be everywhere at once and always blazing.
The men were dumfounded at the sight of the young gymnast, Carl and the police.
Murphy, who was completely dumfounded to see Leo, now came forward.
Jerry was dumfounded and so must Danny and Chris have been, for they gasped.
Jerry was somewhat dumfounded at the burst of laughter which followed his announcement.
For once in her life she was too dumfounded to offer even a theory.
He stumped indignantly out of the room, his friends too greatly dumfounded even to smile.
She was dumfounded by his sudden transformation, and delighted at first, but later, when she saw that he regarded her only as a means to an end, his cool assumption of leadership piqued her and she felt hurt.
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