He had been thunderstruckwhen he read the announcement on the part of the chief author of the Reform Bill, who had stood with him (Sir J.
I am thunderstruck by a telegraph despatch from Marseilles of the 17th, which declares that Prince Menschikoff has not succeeded, and has therefore given orders for the Russian fleet to come to Constantinople.
Ismenias was accordingly seized and hurried off as a prisoner to the Kadmeia; while the senators, thunderstruck and overawed, offered no resistance.
All within were thunderstruck with the summons, which seemed to imply that the plot had been divulged, perhaps by the timid Hipposthenidas.
The mother gets out her visiting list of ten years before and is thunderstruck to find that it contains chiefly names of the "dead, the divorced, and defaulted.
I was thunderstruck upon reading these lines, and, having read them, I felt that I must by no means flatter myself that this affair did not affect me more nearly than yet appeared.
Dalton seemed thunderstruck at the boldness of a speech so unlike the gentle character of her who had uttered it.
Sir Stafford, who only learned about the half of his son's liabilities, was thunderstruckat the amount.
Poor Seagrim was thunderstruck at this; for he was no stranger to the fault in the shape of his daughter.
He became, therefore, like onethunderstruck at his sister's relation.
Mr Fitzpatrick seemed a little thunderstruck with this, and more confused than I had seen him, though his ideas are always confused enough, heaven knows.
Still clinging meanly to office, he appealed to his brother in London to obtain for him more honourable treatment, but was thunderstruck by the news that Rochester himself had been dismissed.
The States-General, as was expected, appeared thunderstruck by even the proposal of carrying the war to the Moselle, and it was only by the zeal of Heinsius that they were brought to consent to it.
He had indeed been surprised at meeting persons so totally different from what he had expected that morning at breakfast, but he was now perfectly thunderstruck at the sight which burst upon his astonished vision.
Thunderstruck at the temerity of the project, Torres undertook, but at first with small success, to convince Herrera of its impracticability, and induce him to abandon it, at least for the time.
We were thunderstruck and stunned, and we reeled and fell in utter confusion.
I was a good deal thunderstruck myself; for that was the first I had heard of the proclamation, and my old man was pretty much in the same fix with Jeff.
The next instant the car was leaping forward with a roar and a bound, headed full at the band of amazed and thunderstruck cowpunchers.
If a round black bomb had come rolling down the mountain side and exploded at Nat's feet he could not have been more thunderstruck than he was at the sudden appearance of his old enemy.
Any one in the least familiar with military organization and military science is thunderstruck to find how the Federal military organization deal with staffs, and what is their comprehension of the qualification for staff duties.
Many Congressmen were thunderstruck by the display of words which, as they were purely technical terms, the Congressmen in question could not understand.
As for myself, I was so thunderstruck by Mignonne's conduct that it had not occurred to me to ask her for an explanation.
We three left the salon; I cast a glance at Madame Sordeville, who seemed thunderstruck to see me go away with Madame Dauberny, who had sent the baron on ahead and had taken my arm with the greatest familiarity.
Charles, quitethunderstruck by such an unexpected blow, overwhelmed by the thought of his past crimes, trembled like a coward face to face with death, and seemed completely crushed.
Monsieur de Lamotte, thunderstruck by such a revelation, could not contain his impatience and indignation.
Thunderstruck by this reproach, the poor woman had no strength to reply, and was taken home more dead than alive.
She turned toward her friend, to see if she had noticed that sight; but she was thunderstruck by the strange expression presented by Bathilde's face at that moment.
I was thunderstruckwith the vehemence with which the elder turned upon me with the question, "Is my brother in this prison?
Even these are less remarkable than the sympathy by which the pleader seems to have possessed himself of the emotions, the peculiar moral experience, of the quiet, good people of Salem, when thunderstruck with this event.
She was thunderstruck and made no reply for a moment, for in her agitation she did not understand him at first, but as soon as she grasped his meaning she said to him indignantly and vehemently: "I!
The man was thunderstruck and could hardly speak, but at last he stammered out: "What are you saying?
Sir Hugh was thunderstruck with amazement and disappointment, but said nothing.
Thunderstruck by his departure, she looked affrighted, after him, with a sigh impossible to repress; she now first weighed the hazard of what she was doing, the deep game she was inconsiderately playing.
At first he was thunderstruck and in his terror dropped some very compromising phrases.
Grigory was thunderstruck and looked at the orator, his eyes nearly starting out of his head.
Almost thunderstruckwith astonishment, I merely curtsied to his kind "I am your friend," and said nothing.
I was surprised at Mrs. Norcross putting up with him as she did, but I was fairly thunderstruck some months afterward when I heard that she and her free-and-easy visitor were actually going to be married!
I listened to her with the most breathless attention, and was thunderstruck at the inconceivable artfulness with which she had mixed up truth and falsehood in her charge against my mistress and me.
James was thunderstruck by the news, and instantly avowed that the Elector had entered on an enterprise which would involve him in utter ruin.
Morton, thunderstruck at this bold and sudden act, stoutly denied the charge, but he was ordered to be guarded in his own house, and soon after sent off to the Castle of Dumbarton.
I was thunderstruck with this intelligence, the light forsook my eyes, the colour vanished from my cheeks, and I remained in a state of universal trepidation!
Thunderstruck at this disappointment, I could not, for some minutes, utter one syllable.
Thunderstruck with this discovery, the knowledge of my misfortune rushed all at once upon my reflection!
Thunderstruck with my evil fortune I called a coach, and drove to my husband's lodgings, where I found him waiting the event of his letter.
