For once his stupefactionescaped the citadel of his impassivity.
Paquita, in her stupefaction of grief, had only strength enough to give the signal for departure.
Her stupefaction at such a breach of the peace delayed for a moment her answer.
When Lillian Astrupp had given her dictum, when the music of the orchestra had ceased and the curtain risen on the second act of the play, nothing but a sense of stupefaction had filled his mind.
Loder, gazing in stupefaction over the other man's head, saw it--felt and understood it with a mind that leaped back over a space of years.
The veto she received with a wonderment which deepened into stupefaction when she saw him lift the huge bundle in his arms and stalk away with it down the street.
For my part, I shared my grandfather's stupefaction at their unaccountable changes.
A dreadful gape of stupefaction had usurped the smiles on my father's countenance; his eyes rolled over, he tried to articulate, and was indeed a spectacle for an enemy.
A renewal of his clamour for immediate attention fell on the squire's ear, amazing him to stupefaction at such challengeing insolence.
She felt vindicated by his stupefaction and liked him for it.
Sheer, open-mouthed stupefaction blurred for an instant the composed, carefully arranged masks of those four exponents of decorum.
He was staring wildly, with an expression of stupefaction and affright which gradually changed into one of mad terror.
It was the stupefaction due to this surprising coincidence that decided you, Madam, to invoke my assistance.
But the surprise and stupefaction expressed by Victor, after glances at his watch, were not so profound as Fenellan's, on finding himself exchangeing the bow with a gentleman bearing the name of Dr.
To the stupefaction of physicians, in a manner to make a sane man ask whether she was not being retained as an instrument for one of the darker purposes of Providence--and where are we standing if we ask such things?
Again sufferings, necessary to nobody, utterly uncalled for; again fraud; again the universal stupefaction and brutalization of men.
Thus it seems to simple, benighted, unlearned men, acting under the influence of the petty passions and stupefaction to which they have been subjected.
He and his boat had disappeared, but her disappointment was at once lost in admiring stupefaction as she gazed upon a magnificent craft bearing across the bows of her boat and coming from the direction of Westminster.
To the complete stupefaction of Rebecca, the repetition of Phoebe's words was perfect.
In the midst of the embarrassment and stupefaction of the assembled families, Sabine de Grandlieu entered the room and gave him a letter, explaining that Mademoiselle des Touches had requested her to give it to him on this occasion.
La Palferine said to his groom, "Follow the carriage of madame," and then he jumped into it beside her to the utter stupefaction of Calyste, who stood for a moment planted on his two legs as if they were lead.
Amazement and stupefaction sat for a moment on the features of the Indians.
I tried to give vent to my overcharged heart in tears; but the power was denied me, and I sank at once into thatstupefaction which you have since remarked in me, and which has been increasing every hour.
The King said nothing; and the Princess des Ursins, notwithstanding her stupefaction and secret wrath, was unwilling to commence her career in Spain by scenes of reproach and severity.
There was a movement of stupefaction among the clerks, and Monsieur Potel's features showed affrightedly over the screen which shut him up as in a box.
His wife, too, filled him with stupefaction and admiration by the ingenuity of her mind, the value of her information, and the number of her acquaintances.
Nor shall I ever forget the man's stupefaction when he saw that his dagger no longer consisted of anything but the pommel and a harmless and ridiculously small stump of the blade, just long enough to keep it in its sheath.
Gaston Sauverand had uttered the same cry as when he heard of the death of the engineer; and his stupefaction seemed even greater, combined as it was with an anguish that distorted his features beyond recognition.
The same stupefaction followed: this dagger was also broken off at the hilt.
When the first moment ofstupefaction was over, the deputy chief took the letter.
Belsky stared at him in thestupefaction to which the American humor commonly reduced him.
Belsky watched him in the stupefaction which the artistic nature feels when life proves sentient under its hand, and not the mere material of situations and effects.
His face, which had exhibited the weakest and most pitiable consciousness at the mention of Mrs. Sweeny, changed to an expression of absolute stupefaction as I concluded.
And the confusion, the stupefaction of Sanin may be imagined!
Ainslie, from her attitude of avowal and abasement, looked his stupefaction at Haldicott, and, for all answer, got a stupefaction as complete.
George, struggling with thestupefaction that gripped him.
He was aghast and horror-struck with the stupefaction that comes of effort to disbelieve the eyes.