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"It is droll enough, truly, to see the landlord of the 'Foul Anchor' dumb-foundered," returned the old man, with perfect composure in mien and eye. "I ask you, if you do not suspect something wrong about that slaver?" "Wrong! Good heavens, mister Robert, recollect what you are saying.
"Now I only wish he would vouchsafe me a little of his learning," thought the boy to himself, and in this wish he was at last gratified; for the Lion, after asking him whether he was acquainted at all with the Sclavonian languages, and being informed that he was not, absolutely dumb-foundered him by a display of Sclavonian erudition.
Good land! them that sets a fire knows that there has got to be smoke and blisters, there must be. The officers they wuz just dumb-foundered at the sight of a woman with a bask waist on in that position a bein' court-martialed for desertion and her speech dumb-foundered 'em still more, so I spoze; I hearn it from one who wuz there.
In vain the Englishman in monotonous anger, and the Frenchman in every note of the gamut, abused Paddy: necessity and wit were on Paddy's side; he parried all that was said against his chaise, his horses, himself, and his country, with invincible comic dexterity, till at last, both his adversaries, dumb-foundered, clambered into the vehicle, where they were instantly shut up in straw and darkness.
The door was opened, and they all entered. Alfred looked under the bed. The rest stood round it. There was nothing to be seen but a year's dust Alfred was dumb-foundered, and a cold perspiration began to gather on his brow. He saw at once a false move would be fatal to him. "Well, sir," said Vane grimly. "Where are they?" Alfred caught sight of a small cupboard; he searched it; it was empty.
Well, the stare he gave me would have made you die a larfin'. I never saw a man in my life look so skeywonaky. He knew it was true that the king had that custom, and it dumb-foundered him.
It is certainly hard that they do not come down to us, and condescend to tell us what they mean, and be dumb-foundered by the perspicuity of our arguments the argument, for instance, that they have not fashioned us for the science of the shears, and do yet impel us to wield them.
He trembled from head to foot with the force of his own eloquence, and Arbroath stared at him dumb-foundered. "You are a preacher," went on Helmsley "You are a teacher of the Gospel. Do you find anything in the New Testament that gives men licence to ride rough-shod over the hearts and emotions of their fellow-men? Do you find there that selfishness is praised or callousness condoned?
Sez I, "Josiah Allen, hain't you ever meandered at all from that straight and narrer way?" "No mom, not a inch, not a hair's breadth." I wuz dumb-foundered by his conceit as many times as I had witnessed it. The sermon that follered wuz white and glowin' with the light of Heaven. You could see that he had not been disobedient to that Divine vision that had been revealed to him.
His companions took up the cry, and Pirate, setting his fore-paws on the bow, barked and howled like mad. Such a hullaballoo was enough to waken anybody, and the Lunda boys half-awake rushed out of the shed, and stood staring in dumb-foundered amazement at the foe!
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