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Example sentences for "stupefies"

Lexicographically close words:
stupa; stupas; stupe; stupefaction; stupefied; stupefy; stupefying; stupendious; stupendous; stupendously
  1. They may be caught in turned wooden boxes which are kept by every druggist; and a touch of the chloroform on the outside of the box immediately stupefies them.

  2. A drop of chloroform on the bottom of the box at once stupefies the capture so that it can be taken out and otherwise disposed of.

  3. Self-examination is dangerous if it encroaches upon self-devotion; reverie is hurtful when it stupefies the will; gentleness is an evil when it lessens strength; contemplation is fatal when it destroys character.

  4. It stupefies and bewilders the simple heart, which sees it without understanding it, which touches it without being able to believe in it, and which sinks engulfed in the problem of it, like Empedocles in Etna.

  5. Here cupidity for wealth is also seen, a passion that stupefies even those that are learned amongst men.

  6. By restraining the mind and the soul, by casting off malice that stupefies the mind, and by throwing off desire and stupefaction, one is said to attain to Brahma.

  7. Similarly, this deity stupefies the senses of some one and then that stupefaction touches all, the honest and the wicked alike, without any distinction.

  8. Constant companionship with Prosperity stupefies a person of weak judgment.

  9. There is a certain magic about his properest action which stupefies your powers of observation, so that though it is done before you, you wist not of it.

  10. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.


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