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Individuality: An Essay on the Foundations of Metaphysics
Let us suppose that there are two men standing in a room and that on the floor
lies a dead woman with a stab wound. When a policeman enters the room and
asks "Who stabbed this woman?," one of the men, who is dumbstricken and
cannot ...
2
Tumbuka Folktales: Moral and Didactic Lessons from Malawi
Moral and Didactic Lessons from Malawi Shawa, Lester Brian, Soko, Boston
Jaston. All the villagers woke up and found the hyena feeding on goats. The lion
woke up and was very disappointed with his friend. He was left dumbstricken.
Shawa, Lester Brian, Soko, Boston Jaston, 2014
Gustavus Adolphus whistled, stared at her very hard,and seeming quite
dumbstricken by her appearance, contented himself by swallowing a whole glass
of mountain by way of reply. Mr. Brock was, however, by no means so
confounded as ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1839
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The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The history of Henry Esmond
... was a brute to make such a speech, he who had caused her malady; and
Doctor Tusher told him that a bear he was indeed, and a bear he would remain,
at which speech poor young Esmond was so dumbstricken that he did not even
growl.
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1868
... turning rather pale, for he began to think himself haunted; "any thing in my line,
sir? I should be— " The stranger bent down his tall stature, and hissed in Mr.
Morton's foreboding ear, — " Your nephews!" Mr. Morton was literally
dumbstricken.
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 1843
Or, again, (what is more pathetic, more terrible, more heartrending in its
suggestions than any possible form of speech can be), that dumbstricken agony
of Jocasta in (Edipus Tyrannus, while the fates -are enveloping her and (Edipus
with ...
7
Dostoyevsky's Stalker and Other Essays on Psychopathology ...
... earth to create rolling hills, meadows, shady glens, overgrown hillocks, and
footpaths that meandered through clumps of leafy trees. This pluperfect scene
captured Olmsted's imagination: “We stood dumbstricken by its loveliness,” he ...
8
Twelve Years A Slave: Original Edition - With Bonus of Uncle ...
Allthenoiseand hum of theboat,the groaning ofthe machinery, mingleddreamily
toher bewildered ear; and the poor, dumbstricken heart had neither cry not tear to
show forits utter misery. She wasquite calm. The trader, who, considering his ...
Solomon Northup, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ageless Reads, 2014
9
The Wit and Humor of America (Complete)
But why should they, her botchwork, turn about And stare disdain at me, her
finished job? Why wasthe place one vast suspended shout Of laughter? Why did
all the daylight throb With soundless guffaw and dumbstricken sob? Helpless I
stood ...
called"—Gustavus Adolphus whistled, stared at her very hard, and seeming quite
dumbstricken by her appearance, contented himself by swallowing a whole glass
of mountain by way of reply. Mr. Brock was,however, bynomeansso ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 2007
