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He moved restlessly from place to place, roamed at all times of the day and night through the city and its suburbs, trying vainly to exhaust his physical strength; gradually, as his lethargy deepened into a numb, helpless despair, it seemed somehow to impart a certain toughness to his otherwise delicate frame.
Rivulets of fire began to run up and down his side; the cords in his neck were stiffening. Still the blood went drip, drip, drip, into the dust. Would he reach Bleiberg, or would he die on the way? God! for a drink of water, cold water. He set his teeth in his lips to neutralize the pain in his arm and shoulder. His lips were numb, and the pressure of his teeth was as nothing.
Even the upper tiers craned, breathless and fascinated; and we, further forward, were numb and quivering with excitement. I have heard a hundred eye-witnesses describe what occurred. There was close agreement with what I seemed to see as I watched. Palus lunged just as Murmex made a brilliantly unpredictable shift of his position.
Stop, George, please." "Wait till I help you down," he said, and jumped off on the other side. "My feet are numb," she said, looking at the arms he held for her. "I'll catch you." "I'm not so bad as that." She climbed down stiffly while he watched her, and in some way she felt herself more injured by the quality of his gaze than she would have been by his clasp.
The people on the stage and in the wings didn't know what she'd done, nor in what character she was about to appear, but they did know she was, from now on, something besides a chorus-girl. Rose obediently crossed the runway and walked up the aisle to where Galbraith stood with Goldsmith and Block, waiting for her. She was still feeling a little numb and empty.
They hung watchful, solicitous, over her bed. It must go hard with her, and twenty-four hours would see the end or a fresh beginning. She had fought back the fever too long, her brain and emotions had been strung to a fatal pitch, and the disease, like a hurricane, carried her on for hours, tearing at her being. Her own mother sat in a corner, stricken and numb.
The next step was to put the doctor's hand over his head, and tell him he could not put it down. Then he stroked the arm and said it was growing numb. He said: "You have no feeling in it, have you?" Dr. Cocke goes on: "I said 'No, and I knew that I said 'No, yet I knew that I had a feeling in it." The operator went on, pricking the arm with a pin, and though Dr.
When a cough is taken, when the skin itches with the scab, and the teeth are numb and hollow, and the stomach turns squeamish, then old age banishes the grace of youth, covers the complexion with decay, and sows many a wrinkle in the dusky skin.
"Stupid as it may seem, I didn't," admitted Cochrane. "I haven't the least idea what you're talking about." Jones looked at him patiently. "Now we can shoot our exhaust out of the field! The ship-field, not the main one!" "I'm still numb," said Cochrane. "Multiple sclerosis of the brain-cells, I suppose. Let me just take your word for it." Jones tried once more. "Try to see it! Listen!
Our course was south and the gale blew from the northwest, and the right side of one's body and the right arm were continually numb from the incessant beating of the wind. The parkee hood had to be drawn closely all the time, and the eyes were sore from trying to peer ahead through the fur edging of the hood.
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