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The oppressive silence of brooding death, unbroken now even by the passing bell, weighed stupor-like upon the wretched survivors. The thoroughfares were deserted, grass sprang green upon side-paths and steps of dwellings; and the broad street in Whitechapel became like unto a field. Most houses bore upon their doors the dread sign of the red cross, with the supplication for mercy written above.
After five months she recovered with only scattered memories of the early part of her psychosis. What seems like a typical stupor content was recalled, however. She thought she was standing in water and heard bells ringing. Stupor-like reactions are not infrequent in connection with or following fevers.
The heat and anxiety seemed too much for him, and despair made everything now look black; he could see no ray of light. But nature is very kind, and she came to the sufferer's help, for as he looked round sourly at those in the cabin, Mr Russell in his stupor-like slumber, and the rest breathing heavily in perfect repose, he muttered: "Not one of them seems to care a bit.
Through that afternoon June kept her hot face close to her books. Bob never so much as glanced her way little gentleman that he was but the one time she lifted her eyes, she met the mountain lad's bent in a stupor-like gaze upon her.
This was startling, for it put a check upon any attempt at movement upon his own part. Pen lay thinking for a few moments, during which he made sure that his comrade was still plunged in a deep, stupor-like sleep.
As the vehicle slowly rattles away he makes an effort, rouses himself as it were from a stupor-like condition, and abruptly speaks: "You tell me that that you have seen Lieutenant Abbot's mail all summer and spring and never saw a our postmark Hastings?" "I have seen his mail very often, and thought his correspondents were all home people.
It must have been about midnight that, as nearly everyone in the gig were plunged in a stupor-like sleep, the first-mate was steering, the boat gliding swiftly through the broken waves. The major sat on one side and Mark on the other talking from time to time in a low voice.
There was blood upon him, too not his, the dogs' and no other mark; and though he was pretty sore and sick from internal bruising, his skin, his wonderful loose skin, was whole, and unpierced by a single fang. He had, however, the decency to go home and fling himself into a stupor-like sleep, just to prove that he was a real, live beast of this earth, and not merely a phantom from other worlds.
We must wait." I dropped soon after into a heavy stupor-like sleep, and this time I was the first to wake and see the sun's rays stealing in through the growth in the rift. Ching was sleeping calmly enough, but Tom Jecks had been tossing about, and lay in a very peculiar position, which startled me it looked so strange.
For a long time after Harlan ceased to work with him the man lay in a stupor-like silence, limp and motionless, though his eyes opened occasionally, and by the light in them Harlan knew the man was aware of what he had been doing.
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