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And with that he took up Clementina's scissors from the work-table and deliberately snipped into little bits the whole of the difficult piece of work which the worthy woman had been slaving away at for a week and more, finally pitching it away contemptuously while she sat there and stared at him dumfoundered. "John, John!" said the old man in mild remonstrance.
"The Gra-anny said so, and she'll be right.... Was that her voice?..." A sound had come from the cottage. Keziah might be wanted. She wished the farmer good-night; and he drove off, no longer mystified, but dumfoundered with what had removed his mystification. Old Phoebe had passed on into the house.
Hazlewood was destined never to complete a sentence that morning, for Margaret Pettifer at this point banged her umbrella upon the floor. "Stop talking, Harold, and listen to me! I have been speaking with Robert and we withdraw all opposition to Dick's marriage." Mr. Hazlewood was dumfoundered. "You, Margaret you of all people!" he stammered. "Yes," she replied decisively.
THE intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so unexpected, that we were all three fairly dumfoundered. Gregson sprang out of his chair and upset the remainder of his whiskey and water. I stared in silence at Sherlock Holmes, whose lips were compressed and his brows drawn down over his eyes. "Stangerson too!" he muttered. "The plot thickens."
My husband was convicted of forgery and transported." "God's mercy on us!" said Aunt M'riar, dropping her work dumfoundered. Then it half entered her thought that the old woman was wandering, and she nearly said: "Are you sure?" The old woman answered the thought as though it had been audible. "Why not?" she said. "I am all myself. Fifty years ago!
Besides, if it were so that any mere sailor of the Pequod had a grudge against Flask in Flask's official capacity, all that sailor had to do, in order to obtain ample vengeance, was to go aft at dinnertime, and get a peep at Flask through the cabin sky-light, sitting silly and dumfoundered before awful Ahab.
He had written twice to Lucy, and was anxiously wondering at her delay in answering, for Lucy had always been a faithful and punctual correspondent. You would have laughed had you seen the varying expressions on Tom's face as he read Aunt Hepsy's epistle; concern at first to hear Lucy was ill; relief to find her recovering; and, last of all, mute, dumfoundered amazement at Aunt Hepsy. Mr.
"If we were green fools enough to let 'em, they wud." "How can we prevent that?" asked Seguin. "Easy as fallin' off a log." "How? how?" inquired several at once. "By puttin' them on another scent, do 'ee see?" "Yes! but in what way can we effect that?" inquired Seguin. "Why, cap, yur tumble has surely dumfoundered ye. I wud think less o' these other dummies not seein' at a glimp how we kin do it."
Here, some days ago, he crept round at night to the deacon's near, after the honey, and the deacon was watching the hive himself. Well, he caught him, and in the dark he gave him a good hiding. When he'd done, Efrem, he says to him: "But d'you know who it is you've been beating?" The deacon, when he knew him by his voice, was fairly dumfoundered.
The two seamen, who supported me between them, were at first so completely dumfoundered by all this, that they could not speak. At length, however, Timothy Tailtackle lost his patience, and found his tongue.
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