Stunned

Examples

• But as it was, down I went, stunned, indeed, but unwounded. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It stunned her and annihilated her, but she could not escape it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But he is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I tried to collect my thoughts, but I was stunned. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Tom sat, like one stunned, at the fire. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She had not felt so stunned--so impressed as she did now, when echoes of Mr. Thornton's voice yet lingered about the room. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I felt stunned, more by the sudden shock of such an idea being presented to my imagination as possible, than from conviction of its probability. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Father were stunned wi' the blow at first, for all Boucher were weak wi' passion and wi' clemming. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You was what you may call stunned at first, he returned; and Lord, no wonder! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Oliver felt stunned and stupefied by the unexpected intelligence; he could not weep, or speak, or rest. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• We were all stunned with the loud cheers, three times three repeated, which followed. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The idea quite stunned her, as she attended the light footsteps down the stairs, that the house door might be safely shut. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• MY night, thanks to the opium, was the night of a man who is stunned. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Greece was stunned, and Alexander was free to go on with the Persian campaign. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It but stunned me, he replied. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Mr. Bell was stunned by the shock; and only recovered when the time came for being angry at every suggestion of his man's. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned--would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Fanny was almost stunned. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• My poor dear Handel, he replied, holding his head, I am too stunned to think. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It was as if she had forced herself to one untruth, and had been stunned out of all power of varying it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She had only realised with a shock that stunned her, that she was overcome by this pure transportation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I am stunned by these discoveries. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Margaret was almost stunned. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Twemlow, in a stunned condition, feigns to compare the portrait in his hand with the original looking towards him from his Mephistophelean corner. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The feeling, the announcement sent through me, was something stronger than was consistent with joy--something that smote and stunned. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The strange, stunned feeling which had taken possession of me still remained. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In an instant I was stunned with a blow and bound hand and foot. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• An hum, like that of ten thousand hives of swarming bees, stunned us as we entered the coffee-room. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I was still giddy with the shock of my mother's death, and in a kind of stunned state as to all tributary things. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Mrs. Gradgrind, stunned as usual, collapsed and gave it up. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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