There was a tremendous explosion and a numbing blow against his shoulder that sent him somersaulting backward off the boulder.
Then he took a hard, numbing blow at the back of his neck and felt himself falling .
Just the voice; but to one man in the Secret Room, and to the others when his numbing lips spoke the name, it was far more than enough.
It was Prester Kleig, Master of the Secret Room, who was the first to regain control after the nerve-numbing question which, asked in far Madagascar, was heard by the Agents in the Secret Room.
But Prester Kleig could not go on with the thought which had rushed through his brain with the numbing impact of a blow.
A bitter, heart-numbing night of weird, shrieking wind and flying snow.
The realization of that creeping menace came to Delamater with a gripping, numbing horror.
The astronomer gripped McGuire's arm in a numbing clutch; his other hand was raised above.
The slamming of the front door of the Gladwin mansion struck upon the two young men as a numbing shock.
The inky blackness fell upon the room with palpable suddenness--like a blinding flash, numbing for a moment the senses of all who had been taken by surprise.
There was somethingnumbing to me in the thought of this quiet ordinary little man telling us in a quiet matter-of-fact tone that love had nearly killed him.
After Beatrice's death a great and numbing sorrow fell upon him.
Still Dante stood, as a poet, at a height so far above his age and his own theories, that the cold and numbing touch of symbolism rarely mars the interest of his work.
With a disconcerting jar that wellnigh dislocated his wrist, and sent a numbing pain through his right arm, the lad realized that he was up against great odds.
With an agility so rapid that the spectators had not time to grasp its significance, the Maori regained his feet, dealt a numbing blow upon the biceps of his antagonist, and was off to the opposite corner of the ring.
With the release of the gear the lower block dealt him a numbing blow on the shoulder.
He was dragged from his feet; the numbing arms clenched him round the waist, and tore at him; every tendon in his breast was strained; the strain under his shoulders became excruciating, the muscles stood out in knots.
The numbing and sickening effect on me of the touch of the object I had not seen was not to be shaken off at once.
As the words were being spoken, a cold rush of air passed over the clasped hands, numbing them, and began to creep round the bride, and to flutter her veil.
They raced on past the octopi submarine and, with a tremendous, ear-numbing explosion, burst on the wall of the cavern beyond.
And as the commander and his men realized it the numbing spell of their desperate position settled down on them again like a shroud.
Then fear and numbing grief subdued The senses of the multitude.
Its fury spent and burnt away, Harmless upon the ground it lay Like a great snake in furious mood By herbs of numbing power subdued.
But yet through thee a numbing dread Of fiends among our band has spread; Obstructed by the demons’ art The trembling hermits talk apart.
He ceased: and Brahmá made reply; “Six months in slumber shall he lie And then arising for a day Shall cast thenumbing bonds away.
Again within their shell enshrined Came memory and each power of mind: And, from those numbing bonds released, Their spirit, zeal, and strength increased.
Against this numbingsorrow strive, For Indrajít is yet alive; And none in battle may withstand The fury of his strong right hand.
That strikes a numbing chill, Hath struck him senseless with the smart, But left him breathing still.
This is not death: each prince will break The spell that holds him, and awake; Nor long shall numbing magic bind The mighty arm, the lofty mind.
Huge giants named Mandehas(677) there In each foul shape they love to wear, Numbingthe soul with terror’s chill, Hang from the summit of the hill.
Then he won't feel his self any more, then he won't feel the pains of life any more, then he finds a short numbing of the senses.
It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life.
The same escape, the same short numbingis what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice-wine or fermented coconut-milk.
As he moved a swift, numbing pain shot from his right side, through his shoulder to his brain, where, apparently, it centered in a burning core of suffering.
Bottles of patent medicines, exhilarating or numbing as the purchaser might require, lined the shelves of his drug store.
Stout-hearted as the Legionaries were, a kind of numbing oppression was closing in upon them.
Silence and concealment, and the invisible blight of sleep, like the greater numbing that once fell on the hosts of Sennacherib, enfolded all opposition.
Then somewhere very near a great voice croaked briefly and was silent--so close that it poured a wave of faintness over the hearer, seemed to send numbing electricity tingling along his motor nerves.
The numbing thunder rumbled back, repeating the pain and the threat--but underneath something crooned and wheedled obscenely.
Piercing and lingering, the tones of the pipes flowed into his veins, tingling, warring with the numbing poison of the currupira's song.
Something cold and forbidding seemed to grip at him, numbing for an instant mental and physical action--and then left him in a state of grim, unnatural calmness.
The bullet had grazed Wolf's scalp and then had passed along the foreleg; scarring and numbing it.
At the edge of the shoreward ice he gave a heave which called on every numbingmuscle of the huge frame, and which--in spite of the burden he held--again lifted his head and shoulders high above water.
I thought and cared only for myself, of parties and dresses, and of having a good time--and this Dead Sea of selfishness was numbing every generous impulse within me.
He heard the great roar of applause, but it sounded far, far away to his numbing senses.
The fire was down to a single charred stick, but the chill had not yet laid hold of the air within, and we made ready for bed before the numbing fingers of the frost made free with our persons.
Time and again we were forced to halt in the lee of a wooded point, where with threshing of arms we drove the sluggish blood back into our numbing finger-tips.
Catching hold of one of the floats, Lawless endeavoured to draw himself up, but fell back in the water as a numbing pain shot through his left arm.
For a moment or two he experienced all the horrors of approaching death by suffocation, and then, with a gigantic effort of will, threw off the numbing horror and struck out again with slow but steady strokes.
Claverton feels a hard, numbing knock on the left shoulder, as he and the doctor rush to the side of the fallen man.
An awful numbing sense of fatalism creeps over her.
The chemical tests are supplementary to the physiological; if the alkaloidal extract does not give the tingling, numbing sensation, aconitine cannot be present.
Two companions who had also eaten a smaller quantity of the hemlock dropwort, escaped with some numbing sensations, and imperfect control over the extremities.
Carbolic acid does not redden litmus, but produces a greasy stain on paper, disappearing on exposure to the air; it has a peculiar smell, a burning numbing taste, and in the fluid state it strongly refracts light.
The peripheral action is seen in the numbing of sensation.
My heart with horror melts, a numbing chill pervades My limbs, and all my soul is filled with sinking fear.
Her magic poisons all she ranges for her use: The ravening power of hidden fire is held in these, While deep in others lurks the numbing chill of frost.
So close that the killer's mighty tail slapped against Don's legs with numbing force.
For a moment his fingers tightened on the bridle, but his hearing was dulled by weakness and the numbing cold, and pressing his heels home he rode on into the darkness.
