Trigger came out of the ceridim trance hours before Lyad awoke from the stunner blast she'd absorbed.
Trigger had been wondering whether they'd left the stunner compartment loaded.
Trigger stepped across her, picked up the Denton, shifted its setting, thumbed it to twelve-hour stunner max, and let Mihul have it between the shoulder blades.
She had never had occasion to turn the stunner on a human being, but she'd used it on game.
The little gun had a very precisely calibrated fast-acting stunner attachment, and old Runser Argee had instructed Trigger in its use with his customary thoroughness before he formally presented her with the gun.
Trigger spun the Denton to its stunner setting and laid it back inside the slit which had appeared along the side of the porgee pouch.
I keep it switched to stunner myself when I'm carrying it," she added pointedly.
Awfully sorry, mother; but don't you see what a stunner father's given me?
He was angered however to find his flame pistols and stunner had been taken away from him.
Another half hour passed, before the cataleptic effect of the stunner eased sufficiently for Garth to sit up and rest his chest and arms upon his knees.
Next, he brought out a palm-sized stunner which he concealed in his hand by aid of a wrist-strap.
His fingers squeezed the rubber-mounted grips of the stunner concealed in the palm of his left hand.
Eva loved me: her mother had said as much when I overheard her in the arbor on the mountain-side, and I knew Aunt Stunner would have no objection, as my income exceeded Todd's.
I could not get it out of my head how Mrs. Stunner said she would end badly, and it seemed a pity for a charming girl such as she was.
Aunt Stunner had taken matters into her own hands, and the game had commenced in earnest.
Presently she went off to dance with him, and Aunt Stunner sat down by me.
He fired through the crack, pressing down the stud until the stunner scorched his hand.
One guard went along; the big one with the stunnerstayed behind, eyeing his prisoners unpleasantly.
Greg pulled the stunner from his holster and tossed it to Tom.
They parted in the corridor outside control, Johnny heading down for the engine room corridors, while Tom ran up toward the main outer-shell corridor, a Markheim stunner in his hand.
Five minutes later a man in Patrol uniform with captain's bars stepped into the control cabin, a stunner on ready in his hand.
The guard was a big man, with a heavy-duty stunnerresting in the crook of his elbow.
Somewhere far below he heard metal banging on metal; minutes before he thought he had heard the sharp ripping sound of a stunner blast overhead, but he wasn't sure.
In the hatchway to the after-cabin, Merrill Tawney was standing, with a smile on his lips and a Markheim stunner trained directly on Major Briarton's chest.
The stunner flew from his hand and crashed against the rear bulkhead.
The stunnerbuzzed in his hand, and once again the footfalls retreated.
He caught the stunner beam in the shoulder, and it will be a while before he can use it, but Johnny Coombs will be hard to keep down.
Then he was firing point blank down the corridor, his stunneron a tight beam, a deadly pencil of violent energy.
One of the Hirlaji had raised a disintegrator; Rynason caught him with the stunner as he fired, and the beam of the alien's weapon shot past his leg, digging a pit into the floor beyond him.
Manning raised the stunner coldly and let him have it.
The man staggered forward two steps, trying to raise his stunner again, but suddenly it clattered to the floor and he crumpled on top of it.
Manning bent and picked it up, returned the stunner to its holster and held the disintegrator on him.
The Hirlaji stood completely still; several of those that Rynason had dropped with his stunner had recovered consciousness, but they made no move either.
He drew out his stunner from its holster and looked at it for a moment.
Suddenly Manning was among them, smashing his way through with a stunnerin his hand, swinging it like a club.
More sensible than I thought Eva could be," the Stunner rejoined.
I suppose I must sacrifice myself for the good of the family," said the Stunner in an heroic tone, "but you must let me have my own way entirely.
I lay there thinking for a long while: I wonder if my poor mother, were she living, would take as much trouble to procure me a wife as Mrs. Stunner is going to take to provide Eva with a husband.
Mrs. Stunner delivered this ultimatum with the tone of a just judge who will hear of no appeal.
He didn't seem to move, but the stunner was in his hand.
He wasn't smiling now, and the stunner caught me easily.
I admired the twinkle of light on the polished barrel of a Norge stunner at his elbow and decided to ignore it too.
The grip of his stunner was slippery in his damp hand; he hated this waiting.
Shann slammed his hand hard against the ground, sent his body rolling, his stunnerup and ready.
Swinging the stunner awkwardly in his left hand, the Terran retreated, mentally trying to contact Thorvald once more.
But he drew his stunner and beamed at either end of the oval, and then, for good measure, in the middle, hoping in one of those three general blasts to contact the thing's central nervous system.
But a beam from a stunner ought to slow it up long enough for this to work.
In his brush with the injured Throg at the wreck the stunner had had little impression on the enemy.
His heart no longer labored; he made no move to draw the stunner or knife.
Thorvald whirled, his stunner drawn with a speed for which Shann gave him high marks.
He has cut off the laps of a stunner tartan jacket, and looks like a great backgammon-board.
Don't you remember the princess in the Arabian Nights, who was such a stunner for tarts, Lord Farintosh?
I can see it's going to be a stunner when it's done, but I guess I'm weak on sculpture anyway.
Quite a stunner she is, with them high voltage black eyes, and the gold ear hoops, and in that vivid colored evening gown.
As a matter of fact I'd kind of thrown it into him a bit strong about what a stunner she was.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stunner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
