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Updated: June 29, 2025
The one thing that I feel passionately anxious about is to set out on the track of the assassin." "There is nothing unusual in your state of feeling, Mark. Such a thing as this is like a wound in battle; the shock is so great that for a time it numbs all pain.
Though Talent has its germ in a cultivated gift, Will means the incessant conquest of his instincts, of proclivities subdued and mortified, and difficulties of every kind heroically defeated. The abuse of smoking encouraged Lousteau's indolence. Tobacco, which can lull grief, inevitably numbs a man's energy.
"She's a harmless creatur' and seems to keep ploddin, but slack ain't no description, an' runs on talkin' about nothin' till it strikes right in an' numbs ye. She's pressed for house room, too. Hart ought to put on an addition long ago, but he's too stingy to live. Folks was tellin' me that somebody observed to him how he'd got a real good, stiddy man to work with him this summer.
"Now I'm cold again, grandmother," said the child quietly. "Don't keep from shivering, then you'll be warm," said the old woman. "Are you shivering?" "No, I'm too old and stiff for it I can't shiver any more. But the cold numbs my limbs, so that I can't feel them. I could manage well enough if it wasn't for my back." "You lean your back against the cold stove too!"
The big central thing numbs and stupefies, when it doesn't kill. And for some reason" she threw out her little gloved hands "the big thing hasn't killed me it has paralysed me. The springs of feeling" she clutched her bosom "are dried up. My heart is withered and dead. I can't explain. For all the dead things I'm not responsible.
Sudden impact pushed him against the restraining straps, burst them with the inertia of his body, hurled him across the control room. His last conscious thought was to protect his head. He was lifting his arm when he struck the wall. There is a cold that is so chilling it is a pain not a temperature. Cold that slices into the flesh before it numbs and kills.
For Fortune, when she lifts up or casts down, usually numbs the understanding at the first turn of her wheel, sending her victim staggering on his way a mere machine, astonishingly alive to the necessity of the immediate moment, careful of the next step, but capable of looking neither forward nor backward with an understanding eye.
Human nature is weak, and has need of tricky aids, even in the pursuit of happiness. Time will be necessary to you, and time regularly and sacredly set apart. Many people affirm that they cannot be regular, that regularity numbs them. I think this is true of a very few people, and that in the rest the objection to regularity is merely an attempt to excuse idleness.
The cows, too, were going fast and helplessly away on a sea of troubled water. Shock numbs the brain and stays suffering, but presently, like a frightened child rousing from sleep, Ann Walden turned to Cynthia. "Ivy," she panted. "Ivy, where is she?" Cynthia could not answer. She tried, but speech failed her.
Old age smites alike the eyes and the steps of men, robs the warrior of his speech and soul, tarnishes his fame by slow degrees, and wipes out his deeds of honour. It seizes his failing limbs, chokes his panting utterance, and numbs his nimble wit.
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