dumbly

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Dumbly, the fierce-faced old man clasped his wife in his arms, expressed in a long embrace feelings he could not utter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dumbly, he endured the pain of the fiery stings.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Dumbly, I’d stand there, waiting for his wife to notice us, for her to call him off with a benign smile.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Dumbly she obeyed; not realizing that he wanted what she did, a few minutes' solitude to enable him to pull himself together.

From A Woman Perfected by Marsh, Richard

Dumbly yields, and fights no more; Driving, in the frantic blast, Headlong on the fatal shore.

From Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Carroll, Lewis