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My father looked round triumphantly, and observing that Squills was dumfounded, and the rest of his audience posed, he added mildly, "Ay," said the captain, "what became of Randal Leslie? Did he repent and reform?"
If you wanted to go rowing to-day, you should have waited to run up these stairs until to-morrow. You didn't postpone your naughtiness, so I cannot postpone its punishment." Marjorie looked dumfounded. She had not intended to be naughty, but also she had never supposed her gentle grandma could be so severe.
I had not attached much importance to it; whisky will sometimes vanish in very queer ways in a household of eight or nine persons; but it had seemed strange that it should go in that way on that evening. Martin had been plainly quite dumfounded by the fact.
Raynal explained that he was the bearer of despatches. "I must be off: not an hour to lose. Don't fret, mother, I shall soon be back again, if I am not knocked on the head." Raynal took leave of them all. When it came to Rose's turn, he drew her aside and whispered into her ear, "Who is the man?" She started, and seemed dumfounded. "Tell me, or I ask my wife."
She talked constantly of the General, his wife, little Mary, and poor old Ham, and felt that the 'good Laud' had deserted them for some reason." We were all dumfounded at the recital of these barbarous murders. "My God!" exclaimed Dr. Adams, "what is this people coming to?" Col. Bush shed tears, but could not speak. All were silent.
Had this declaration ever been used, which it was not, the dignity of the grave general who commanded the American forces would have compelled him to cut off this closing snapper from the lash, amusing as it was. The witty notion had found a more appropriate place in the newspaper article which had dumfounded the guests at the English country house. Commenting upon this, Mr.
She stepped eagerly before the party, calling: "Louise!" Louise Grayling raised her head and waved a welcoming hand. "What brings you forth so early in the morning, auntie?" she asked, her voice ringing clearly across the sands. There were at least four dumfounded spectators of this meeting, and they were all named Tapp.
The husband, a socialist shoemaker, a little hairy man, the perfect image of a monkey, murmured quite unconcerned: "Well, what next? Is she resurrected?" As soon as Madame Caravan recognized them, she made frantic gestures to them; then, speaking aloud, she said: "Why, here you are! What a pleasant surprise!" But Madame Braux, dumfounded, understood nothing.
Joe, dumfounded at meeting the fellow whom, although aged and disfigured by the unnatural life he had been leading, he now recognized as the tramp for whom he had searched for so many years, held his peace, for he recalled how he had at Chicago spoiled by undue haste his chance to discover the fate of his missing brother, who had resembled him so much that Kansas Shorty for a second time made the same error in their identity.
Her tears, noisy tears, as if blown out by a pair of bellows, seemed to come from her nose, her mouth and her eyes at the same time; and the young man, dumfounded, awkward, was supporting the heavy woman who had sunk into his arms to commend to his care her darling, her little one, her adored daughter.
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