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Updated: June 2, 2025
When I entered our basement and faced my mother, she stared at me for a moment, as though dumfounded, and then, slapping her hands together, she sobbed: "Woe is me! Darkness is me! What has happened to you?" When she had heard my story she stood silent awhile, looking aghast, and then left the house. "I'm going to kill him.
Ever since the day of his last ride with her, he had been tortured with the most unpleasant thoughts. He confessed to forgetting himself briefly that night at Taboga, but he had believed that she understood that she regarded him only as a chum and a companion. Therefore her open surrender, coming so unexpectedly had dumfounded him.
This unexpected response perfectly dumfounded Madame Denis, who had never imagined that a poor little orphan like Bathilde could refuse so brilliant a match as her son; consequently she answered very sharply that every one was free to act for themselves, and that, if Mademoiselle Bathilde chose to be an old maid, she was perfectly welcome.
The lips were straight and pale, the chin aggressive, the nose indomitable. She was, by certain signs, charged with anger, but she saw upon the faces of these two young fools the look of angels and an ineffable kindness breathed upon her withered heart. "So, you young fool, I have found you!" she said, harshly. Ruth and Spurlock separated, the one embarrassed, the other utterly dumfounded.
Then some one cried out: "Three cheers for Richard Carvel!" They gave them with a will that dumfounded me. "My friends," said I, when I had got my wits, "this is neither the justice nor the moderation for which our province is noted. You have elected your committee of your free wills, and they have claims before you." "Ay, ay, the committee!" they shouted. "Mr. Carvel is right.
The nuns would have had her live in the nun's house forever, and become one of them. But Anna told me on the beach when she came hiding to see her mother, that she would live in the nuns' house only until her Menike father came to take her away. She kept the tiki of Bernadette in its silver box upon her neck, and it was her god to whom she said her prayers." "Epo!" I said, sitting up, dumfounded.
Who can argue with a woman?" sneered José. Alaire, who had listened smilingly, now intervened to avert a serious quarrel. "When the train arrives," she told her horse-breaker, "I want you to find General Longorio and ask him to come here." "But, señora!" José was dumfounded, shocked. "He is a great general " "Give him this note."
Miss Williams stood dumfounded. Rose lay sobbing on the breast of her stalwart lover. "There, Rose, darling, that will do," said the gentleman, leading her to a seat. "Were you not expecting me?" "No indeed," cried Rose, as she brushed away the tears. "I read of the terrible accident, and my mind was full of forboding." "Indeed! What a little goose you are, Rose."
The light faded in a twinkling, but in the darkness he swung his other leg over the rail and sat perched there, as if challenging the testimony of my senses. "Farquharson!" I breathed aloud, utterly dumfounded. "Did you think I was a ghost?" I could hear him softly laughing to himself in the interval that followed. "You should have witnessed Wadakimba's fright at my coming back from the dead.
Willing to see society go on as it did, because he despaired of seeing it otherwise, but not at all agreeing in his interior with the common notions of crime and punishment, he "dumfounded" a long tirade against vice one evening, by taking the pipe out of his mouth, and asking the speaker, "Whether he meant to say that a thief was not a good man?"
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