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"And here is Ribeirac coming." "Do you hear him?" "I see him. Here, Ribeirac!" "Are you fighting?" cried Ribeirac. "Good morning, Livarot; good morning, Antragues." "Let us charge them," said Antragues. The bourgeois looked in stupefaction at this reinforcement that was about to join the attacking party. "They are a regiment," said the captain of the militia.
"Her happiness is all that I care for surely you know this but what has caused this change? Has she seen her husband again? I " Here Henry stopped, a sense of stupefaction set in. What could it all mean? "We have never spoken upon the matter," the priest answered him. "I cannot say, but I think yes, she has certainly come under his influence again.
He had seized the handle, and he was pulling at it frenziedly with a maniacal strength. "Open!" he thundered, and fell to snarling and whimpering horribly. "Open!" Then, quite abruptly he became oddly calm. It was as if his rage grew coldly purposeful; and the next words he uttered acted upon me as a dagger-prod, and reawakened my mind from its momentary stupefaction.
John had taken the key mechanically, hardly hearing what was being said. "Is it true, then have you got faith in me still?" The Father put both hands on his shoulders again and looked into his face. "God has faith in you, my child, and who am I that I should despair?" When John Storm returned to the door his mind was in a state of stupefaction.
He was even more amazed when, a few days later, he saw that Roussin was perfectly serious: and his amazement grew to stupefaction when he heard that Sylvain Kohn, Goujart, and Lucien Levy-Coeur were taking it up. He had to admit that their personal animosity had yielded to their love of art: and he was much surprised. The only man who was not eager to see his work produced was himself.
But straggling shots succeed, and bullets are whizzing past their ears. These, quickening their instincts, rouse them from their stupefaction; and both, turning from the direction of the danger, looked to the other side for safety. At first wildly and uncertain, for they are still under a weird impression, with senses half bewildered.
Norma's wrap was tossed aside, and she revolved in all her glory, waving her fan at arm's length, pleasantly conscious of Wolf's utter stupefaction, and conscious, too, a little less pleasantly, that Aunt Kate's maternal eye did not agree with Aunt Annie's in the matter of décolletage.
When the illuminated hands of the illuminated tower clock swung to the wide angle of five o'clock, Miss Marjorie Clark and Miss Minnie Bundt, from the fancy-fruit stand opposite, cast off the brown cocoon of their workaday for the trim street finery which the American shopgirl, to the stupefaction of economists and theorists, can somehow evolve out of eight dollars a week.
I was so astonished, as who would not have been? that for an appreciable space of time I was practically in a state of stupefaction. I could do nothing but stare.
The battlement was empty, and the door to the turret-stairs, of which only the King possessed the key, was fast locked; and for the next hour or more the startled sentry remained staring at the skies in a sort of meditative stupefaction, with the words still ringing like the shock of an alarm- bell in his ears: "'T is I! The King!"
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