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  • Farid must have seen my stupefied expression; shuttling people back and forth to Kabul, he would have become familiar with that expression on the faces of those who hadn't seen Kabul for a long time.†   (source)
  • Turtle surveyed her stupefied audience.†   (source)
  • I'd been too stupefied.†   (source)
  • It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.†   (source)
  • Bishop Aringarosa was stupefied.†   (source)
  • Even Mark, who normally had a smart-alecky comeback for everything, was stupefied.†   (source)
  • Another time, he broke into a bank vault but left the four security guards at its back entrance untouched—although a bit stupefied.†   (source)
  • They were stupefied.†   (source)
  • As the stupefied high-schoolers were leaving the scene, they looked back.†   (source)
  • The thin and stupefied bleating of automobile horns.†   (source)
  • A slow stupefied silence crept over the men as they stared at the computer and then at each other.†   (source)
  • Moreover: I was not used to European hotels where you had to ring to get in after a certain hour, and when at last I splashed up sneezing and bone chilled to find the glass door locked, I stood for some indefinite time rattling the handle like a zombie, back and forth, back and forth, with a rhythmic, locked-in, metronome dumbness, too stupefied with cold to understand why I couldn't get in.†   (source)
  • He'd recalled Tamar's cowardice in the plane on the night of the drop, the look of stupefied terror on his face as he stood at the hatch.†   (source)
  • Maybe Stupefy.†   (source)
  • He ordered men to go out in canoes and pitch dynamite in the river, stupefying everything within earshot.†   (source)
  • Chastened by criticism of the stupefying length of October's Dedication Day ceremony, the fair's officers had kept the Opening Day program short and pledged to honor the timetable at all costs.†   (source)
  • Her final day at the public utility in her hometown had been only three weeks ago—they'd been stupefied when she gave notice—but already it seemed impossible she'd wasted so much of her life there.†   (source)
  • Even before dinner arrived, they were already pushed back against the chairs, ties undone and stupefied.†   (source)
  • Jace looked stupefied.†   (source)
  • Stupefied from the side effects of the nahlrout, it took me a moment to recognize it for what it was: a handheld sympathy lamp.†   (source)
  • He was the only one who knew how to react when the fugitive parrot appeared in the dining room at midnight with his head high and his wings spread, which caused a stupefied shudder to run through the house, for it seemed a sign of repentance.†   (source)
  • I hear reports that others among our people have been stupefied by this concoction.†   (source)
  • Farmer sat up all night watching, stupefied.†   (source)
  • Uncle Al stands in the center of the hippodrome, stupefied.†   (source)
  • I said, stupefied.†   (source)
  • It was Blackberry who bullied the stupefied Pipkin to his feet and forced him to limp the few yards to the gravel spit.†   (source)
  • And phone taps of ordinary anonymous men and women, even more repellent-addictive, your next-door neighbor maybe, and Marvin understood how such a purchase could lead to stupefied hours of listening, could take over a person's life, all the more so for the utter sucked-dry boredom of the recordings and how they provided the lure of every addiction, which is losing yourself to time.†   (source)
  • Her eccentricities were no longer provocative and the stupefying ease with which he had gotten and stayed between her legs had changed from the great good fortune he'd considered it, to annoyance at her refusal to make him hustle for it, work for it, do something difficult for it.†   (source)
  • I was stupefied He glanced at me and then away, as if not to disturb a man deep in prayer.†   (source)
  • She doubled her dose of tranquilizers, took refuge once again in her migraines and neuralgias, and, in an attempt to stay busy and not think, she stupefied herself by cooking hundreds of creche monsters in her kiln for Christmas.†   (source)
  • That bombardier's name, he remembered suddenly with another stupefying shock, had also been Yossarian!†   (source)
  • When he balanced a spoon on his finger, both sides began to curve downward before the stupefied observers.†   (source)
  • The two Roush stared, stupefied.†   (source)
  • "I have been here until I am stupefied," Adams told her in a gloomy letter of October 7.†   (source)
  • Yuga eclipsed anything Max had ever seen by such a stupefying margin that a mountain would have seemed infinitesimal by comparison.†   (source)
  • The dispatcher was stupefied by her personal visit; he had no idea that his call boy was a house guest of the Taggarts.†   (source)
  • I hoped my mouth wasn't hanging open in stupefied shock.†   (source)
  • Eyes opened wide, breathing deeply, shaken by concussions raging about them, Alessandro and Rafi dangled in the air, stupefied.†   (source)
  • It's stupefying—the very best thing I've ever seen with these two eyes—but before I can unhook myself from the stone railing and go to her, she opens her mouth, leaps into the air, and starts to scream.†   (source)
  • Some days he saw mystery everywhere, in earthworms and holly trees and basset hounds, and the inexplicability of even the simplest life so angered and stupefied him that he almost resented any balancing elucidation.†   (source)
  • Stupefied that he would walk these miles as a courtesy to a stranger, I suggested he let me buy him a ticket for the show and we could walk back together.†   (source)
  • I popped my eyes open, stupefied, almost feeling the warmth of his radiant smile.†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: (stupefied).†   (source)
  • Their roar stupefied and hypnotized him.†   (source)
  • Then she remembered and said, "oh, in a small, stupefied, soft voice.†   (source)
  • She would get stupefied for sleep.†   (source)
  • Mary was quite stupefied with rage.†   (source)
  • "Snowball was in league with Jones from the very start! ... Did we not see for ourselves how he attempted — fortunately without success — to get us defeated and destroyed at the Battle of the Cowshed?"
    The animals were stupefied.   (source)
    stupefied = (so surprised they were) made unable to think
  • ...cried he, after one stupefied moment.   (source)
    stupefied = made unable to think; or completely surprised
  • He must have been stupefied with drink when he was laying down the laws.†   (source)
  • Harry's temporarily stupefied brain seemed to reawaken.†   (source)
  • "Just a moment, Bast," Kvothe said as he tried to catch the stupefied mercenary's attention.†   (source)
  • Koop tracked him with the gun, but his harrowed face looked slack and stupefied.†   (source)
  • They motioned us into their shelter and we joined them, stupefied by the rain.†   (source)
  • 'STUPEFY!' screamed Hermione, who had just caught up with them.†   (source)
  • The Baron was reduced to stupefied glaring.†   (source)
  • "I'm stupefied by the way the Russians receive me, and I hate their wacky system.†   (source)
  • Moody raised his wand, he opened his mouth; Harry plunged his own hand into his robes "Stupefy!"†   (source)
  • He tried to draw his own wand, but too late: "Stupefy!"†   (source)
  • Somebody Stupefied a Death Eater on top of the Tower after Dumbledore died.†   (source)
  • They were originally destroyed using Stupefy ….†   (source)
  • Well, that stupefied us all for a special moment in time.†   (source)
  • Harry flung himself sideways as Neville took aim again and shouted: 'STUPEFY!'†   (source)
  • Stupefied, I walked back and bent down to look.†   (source)
  • He'll believe you're stupefied by drugs beyond any dying effort to attack him.†   (source)
  • Harry whirled around to face him and gasped: 'STUPEFY!'†   (source)
  • The rest returned to their chores, leaving Max to gaze about in stupefied silence.†   (source)
  • Like him, they watched in a kind of stupefied wonder.†   (source)
  • It sat stupefied for nearly half a minute and then suddenly dashed away over the grass.†   (source)
  • Every demon, every noble looked on in stupefied silence.†   (source)
  • I watched in absolute, stupefied awe as he became a different person.†   (source)
  • 'They certainly look beautiful now writhing in agony or stupefied with morphine, don't they?†   (source)
  • "Who is Mr. Boyle?" she asked, stupefied.†   (source)
  • They remained standing as the train climbed into the hills, kissing until they were stupefied.†   (source)
  • Stupefied, Langdon circled that point.†   (source)
  • Stupefied, painted gold, stuffed into a miniature tutu and with small wings glued to il. s back, it glowered down at them all, the ugliest angel Harry had ever seen, with a large bald head like a potato and rather hairy feet.†   (source)
  • But the Captain did not see her because he was stupefied by Florentino Ariza's tremendous powers of inspiration.†   (source)
  • Or stupefied, that would do as well.†   (source)
  • On the third stupefying night she waited for him with a bottle of anisette, which she used to drink in secret with Cousin Hildebranda's band and later, after she was married and had children, behind closed doors with the friends from her borrowed world.†   (source)
  • Stupefy?†   (source)
  • Snape and Malfoy, however, were still running; they would soon be beyond the gates, able to Disapparate — Harry tore past Hagrid and his opponent, took aim at Snape's back, and yelled, "Stupefy!†   (source)
  • "Stupefy!" she screamed, "Stupefy!"†   (source)
  • Without pausing to think, he aimed high at the spider's underbelly, as he had done with the skrewt, and shouted "Stupefy!†   (source)
  • I stood there, stupefied.†   (source)
  • "STUPEFY!" roared twenty voices — there was a blinding series of flashes and Harry felt the hair on his head ripple as though a powerful wind had swept the clearing.†   (source)
  • The first stage along the ridges of the Sierra Nevada, riding muleback in a caravan of Andean mule drivers, lasted eleven days, during which time they were stupefied by the naked sun or drenched by the horizontal October rains and almost always petrified by the numbing vapors rising from the precipices.†   (source)
  • Voldemort Stupefied his uncle, took his wand, and proceeded across the valley to 'the big house over the way.'†   (source)
  • The force of the Death Eaters' spells shattered the tiled wall where Ron's head had just been, as Harry, still invisible, yelled, "Stupefy!"†   (source)
  • We went into his office to see if we could help Professor Flitwick and found him unconscious on the floor…. and oh, it's so obvious now, Snape must have Stupefied Flitwick, but we didn't realize, Harry, we didn't realize, we just let Snape go!†   (source)
  • I learned the Dark Arts from him, and I know spells of such power that you, pathetic little boy, can never hope to compete = 'Stupefy!' yelled Harry.†   (source)
  • Lucius, Narcissa, Draco and Greyback wheeled about; Harry yelled, "Stupefy!" and Lucius Malfoy collapsed onto the hearth.†   (source)
  • He could hear Cedric yelling "Stupefy!" too, but his spell had no more effect than Harry's — Harry raised his wand as the spider opened its pincers once more and shouted "Expelliarmus!"†   (source)
  • Harry saw the knees of the Death Eaters bend; poking his wand out from under the desk, he shouted, 'STUPEFY!'†   (source)
  • He raised his wand, not even troubling to keep it concealed beneath the Invisibility Cloak, and said, "Stupefy!"†   (source)
  • Stupefy!†   (source)
  • Stupefy!†   (source)
  • 'Hurry, Filch, hurry!' shrieked Umbridge, 'they'll be all over the school unless we do something — Stupefy]' A jet of red light shot out of the end of her wand and hit one of the rockets.†   (source)
  • Wriggling around he cried, "Stupefy!" and a red bolt of light shot from his own wand, cleaving a gap between the four pursuing Death Eaters as they scat-tered to avoid it.†   (source)
  • …in the masked face; they were all yelling, there were cries of pain, and thunderous crashes as the. shelves collapsed upon themselves, weirdly echoing fragments of the Seers unleashed from their spheres — Harry found the way ahead clear and saw Ron, Ginny and Luna sprint past him, their arms over their heads; something . heavy struck him on the side of the face but he merely ducked his head and sprinted onwards; a hand caught him by the shoulder; he heard Hermione shout, 'Stupefy!'†   (source)
  • Stupefy!†   (source)
  • "Stupefy!" he bellowed, and Ron and Hermione joined in: Jets of red light flew into the crowd of goblins, and some toppled over, but others advanced, and Harry saw several wizard guards running around the corner.†   (source)
  • Stupefy!" they shouted in unison, and the Stunning Spells shot into the darkness like fiery rockets, bursting in showers of stars on the dragons' scaly hides Harry watched the dragon nearest to them teeter dangerously on its back legs; its jaws stretched wide in a silent howl; its nostrils were suddenly devoid of flame, though still smoking — then, very slowly, it fell.†   (source)
  • Stupefy!†   (source)
  • Behind Astaroth were hundreds— perhaps thousands—of vyes, ogres, and goblins assembled in stupefying silence before a series of wagons and carts.†   (source)
  • All by itself and randomly, it seemed, his mind shuffled through pictures of home and his family, and horrible images that he stared at stupefied, as if he were right now standing in gray dawn at the open window of the hut with the smoldering roof, staring in at the bodies on the floor.†   (source)
  • "If we could pack black powder into the crack at the top of the cliff and ignite it, the entire cliff might break off" William was stupefied.†   (source)
  • It took her time to realize that it was also a form of tenderness and it was then that she lost her calm and lived only for him, upset by the desire to sink into his stupefying odor of grease washed off by lye.†   (source)
  • She thought she heard the boy's finger actually enter the fleshy pocket between Rochelle's legs, a palpatory sea suck, the wetness, the slaver of long stupefying kisses, that whole thing of having a strand of his hair in your mouth that you can't exactly locate, and it was abruptly and bitterly clear that Rochelle had done this before, gone this far and more, and what a shock to Klara, detecting such experience in her best friend's eyes, and she watched in a clinical spell, she looked…†   (source)
  • They could hear Ursula fighting against the laws of creation to maintain the line, and Jose Arcadio Buendia searching for the mythical truth of the great inventions, and Fernanda praying, and Colonel Aureliano Buendia stupefying himself with the deception of war and the little gold fishes, and Aureliano Segundo dying of solitude in the turmoil of his debauches, and then they learned that dominant obsessions can prevail against death and they were happy again with the certainty that…†   (source)
  • He was simple, shrugging, stow at words, and would fall for long periods into a stupefied silence, as if, near-choked with blood, he would as soon have gone to his coffin as remained here.†   (source)
  • Despite enough variation in the experience of a child by the age of fourteen to show him twenty times over that life is stupefying and complex, a single great force drove him forward and gave him both the momentum he would need for the rest of his life and the immediate resilience for surviving the blows he attracted with his adolescent stupidities and excesses.†   (source)
  • Almost on cue, a nursing mother padded past holding an infant in black rags, and Yossarian wanted to smash her too, because she reminded him of the barefoot boy in the thin shirt and thin, tattered trousers and of all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice for all but an ingenious and unscrupulous handful.†   (source)
  • Ladies and gentlemen"-as the television camera swooped down to the speakers' table, and the stupefied face of Mr. Mowen filled the screen-"Mr.†   (source)
  • The crowd watched in stupefied awe.†   (source)
  • Stupefied with the shock, unable even to move, the sodden rabbits crouched inert, almost pinned to the earth by the rain.†   (source)
  • Thorn—stupefied, distraught.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Rearden, stupefied.†   (source)
  • In the first moments after they had recognized the poor creature under the hemlock, Hazel and Dandelion felt completely stupefied, as though they had come upon a squirrel underground or a stream that flowed uphill.†   (source)
  • Chalmers stared at him, stupefied.†   (source)
  • Mr. Mowen looked stupefied.†   (source)
  • I was deep into Crime and Punishment, and although my ambitions as a writer had been laid low by the book's stupefying range and complexity, I had, for several afternoons now, been forging ahead with admiring wonder, much of my amazement having to do simply with Raskolnikov, whose bedeviled and seedy career in St. Petersburg seemed (except for a murder) so closely analogous to mine in Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • Likewise, I could not be aware of the grotesque but now obvious paradox: that after Sunday School, as I stood blinking at the somber and ominous tabernacle across the street (my little brain groggy with a stupefyingly boring episode from the Book of Leviticus that had been force-fed me by a maidenly male bank teller named McGehee, whose own ancestors at the time of Moses were worhipping trees on the Isle of Skye and howling at the moon), I had just absorbed a chapter of the ancient,…†   (source)
  • Her answer came clearly-and it stupefied me.†   (source)
  • The sun strikes low, I am stupefied with exhaustion and hunger.†   (source)
  • 'The shoes were wrong,' said Poirot dreamily, while I was still too stupefied to speak.†   (source)
  • Maybe she herself was stupefied by what she had, her slaying weight.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly into his hand fell a mass of jewels and Wang Lung gazed at them stupefied.†   (source)
  • The vision of the Vienna beauty choking herself in the night park stupefied me.†   (source)
  • He was stupefied with the silence everywhere.†   (source)
  • # Roark sat in Hopton Stoddard's office and listened, stupefied.†   (source)
  • He walked back to the Novitiate, stupefied and without any new understanding.†   (source)
  • "How…do you do, Mr. Toohey," said Keating, stopped, stupefied.†   (source)
  • Calmly they denied, in the teeth of the evidence, that we had ever known a crazy world in which men were killed off like flies, or that precise savagery, that calculated frenzy of the plague, which instilled an odious freedom as to all that was not the here and now; or those charnel-house stenches which stupefied whom they did not kill.†   (source)
  • For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.†   (source)
  • The student gave the impression of being always stupefied by one form of sensual disturbance or another.†   (source)
  • "Why?" asked Roark, stupefied.†   (source)
  • —opened doors in one's mind that went banging and swinging to and fro and made one keep asking, in a stupefied gape, What does one send?†   (source)
  • I spent my nights reading Proust's A Remembrance of Things Past, admiring the lucid, subtle but strong prose, stupefied by its dazzling magic, awed by the vast, delicate, intricate, and psychological structure of the Frenchman's epic of death and decadence.†   (source)
  • I fell asleep, it is true, and lay for several hours completely stupefied; but then to my frightful disappointment I was half awakened by violent convulsions of the stomach and fell asleep once more.†   (source)
  • After the overturn, Dr Fujii was so stupefied and so tightly squeezed by the beams gripping his chest that he was unable to move at first, and he hung there about twenty minutes in the darkened morning.†   (source)
  • Once you go to the Lido there is no escaping—you play back-gammon, you get caught at the bar, you get stupefied by the sun.†   (source)
  • Stupefied by soma, and exhausted by a long-drawn frenzy of sensuality, the Savage lay sleeping in the heather.†   (source)
  • "Eh?" he asks, a bit stupefied.†   (source)
  • Thankfully you tune the strings of your moldering lyre to a moderated, to a passably joyful, nay, to an even delighted psalm of thanksgiving and with it bore your quiet, flabby and slightly stupefied half-and-half god of contentment; and in the thick warm air of a contented boredom and very welcome painlessness the nodding mandarin of a half-and-half god and the nodding middle-aged gentleman who sings his muffled psalm look as like each other as two peas.†   (source)
  • I was stupefied.†   (source)
  • The drafting room witnessed a stupefying act and all work stopped to watch it: Austen Heller picked up the sketch, folded it over four times, cracking the sacred cardboard, and slipped it into his pocket.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Moore, whom the club had stupefied, woke up outside.†   (source)
  • "Great Gawd, what hava struck," demanded the mere boy of himself, stupefied.†   (source)
  • "Hadn't you better—better—take a nap?" murmured the stupefied Ptitsin.†   (source)
  • In January he would rescue his Leonardo from this stupefying twaddle.†   (source)
  • The great fresh open, after the stupefying warmth indoors, made them behave like wild things.†   (source)
  • He did not like whiskey, but he drank to stupefy himself.†   (source)
  • "But—are we out in our old house by Marygreen?" asked the stupefied Jude.†   (source)
  • "A gentleman?" she gasped, confounded, stupefied: "a gentleman HE?"†   (source)
  • It was stupefying, brutalizing work; it left her no time to think, no strength for anything.†   (source)
  • When he felt it whipping about in him, he drank alcohol to stupefy it and get some ease for himself.†   (source)
  • In the corner of the porch scared and stupefied children huddled in a heap.†   (source)
  • He hated Mamma Valerius for giving him such news as that with such stupefying calmness.†   (source)
  • Never was a company of people so perplexed, so interested, and so stupefied, before.†   (source)
  • But the general only stood stupefied and gazed around in a dazed way.†   (source)
  • Unable to madden, it stupefied, and before long most of the Chandrapore combatants were asleep.†   (source)
  • He raised her, carried her into the room, placed her in an arm-chair, and stood over her, stupefied.†   (source)
  • He stood like a man stupefied, but the stupefaction soon gave way to delirious rapture.†   (source)
  • Then the room filled with smoke—heavy aromatic, and stupefying.†   (source)
  • The maid, stupefied, carries in their messages.†   (source)
  • I shook him, but he only murmured and turned: the smoke had stupefied him.†   (source)
  • I believe I should have been almost stupefied but for one circumstance.†   (source)
  • To prevent this, they stupefied me with drugs.†   (source)
  • "Don't stay and stupefy yourself at home to-night, my dear," she would say.†   (source)
  • Sun elated them; quiet rain sobered them; weeks of watery tempest stupefied them.†   (source)
  • Eustacia again remained in a sort of stupefied silence.†   (source)
  • The little Tirzah, in her home attire, stupefied with fear, went passively with her keepers.†   (source)
  • It was precisely my deviltry that stupefied her.†   (source)
  • "What is the matter?" he asked, stupefied.†   (source)
  • Will they be stupefied, or will they suffer pain?'†   (source)
  • Too stupefied to be curious myself, I fastened my door and glanced round for the bed.†   (source)
  • You are not resigned; you are only trying to stupefy yourself.†   (source)
  • Fernand looked at them both with a stupefied air, but did not say a word.†   (source)
  • She was an altered creature, quieted, stupefied, indifferent to everything that passed.†   (source)
  • You've had another opportunity to try to stupefy me."†   (source)
  • But for the present she's simply stupefied."†   (source)
  • Mr. Bumble was stupefied with astonishment.†   (source)
  • Latin and Greek were introduced because they are a bore and because they stupefy the intellect.†   (source)
  • Something stupefying like the fumes of opium seized her.†   (source)
  • Fix, stupefied, followed; it seemed as if he were attached to Mr. Fogg by an invisible thread.†   (source)
  • They were stupefied with astonishment naturally.†   (source)
  • Charmolue was stupefied, as well as the executioners and the entire escort.†   (source)
  • There you stood, stammering, stupefied, annihilated.†   (source)
  • By the time I had finished this second pipe all was still; the bees were stupefied.†   (source)
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