Thesaurus / benumbed
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I saw this girl, eight or nine years old, all benumbed and nothing but skin and bone.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUSThe words were a talisman on the benumbed faculties of Louis; he hastened forward, and threw himself into the carriage.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERThe rest toiled on through swamps and mire, half-starved and benumbed with cold.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNTThe Thtre Franais, recently benumbed as with the quiet of the grave, became all at once a tumultuous battlefield.
THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING, VOLUME 1 (OF 4)RICHARD MUTHERThe worst effects come last, when the brain is too benumbed to judge fairly of their harm.
A CIVIC BIOLOGYGEORGE WILLIAM HUNTERHe moved on in silence, as if his energies were benumbed by the hitherto undreamt-of possibility that his position was untenable.
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLESTHOMAS HARDYThe tones sounded, to the boy's benumbed senses, far away, as a heavily bearded man knelt down and placed his hand upon his heart.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAYA. R. WHITEThis was speedily effected, and without awaking the youth, whose senses were benumbed, as if by some powerful opiate.
WILD WESTERN SCENESJOHN BEAUCHAMP JONESDuring their whole march they were soaking wet to the knees, and benumbed by a temperature always at or near the freezing point.
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 10, ISSUE 278, SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER (1828)VARIOUSHe felt the injured limb, which was almost benumbed, and ascertained beyond doubt that it was fractured below the knee.
THE TERMS OF SURRENDERLOUIS TRACYWORDS RELATED TO BENUMBED
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