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1. I sat there, numb and stupefied as my guard bolted the door
2. stupefied, with bulging eyes, as if a dragonfly had landed on my
3. It tastes as sweet as ambrosia, but leaves men stupefied for days
4. I worried that the drug would be discovered until I realized Jade and Argyl too were sitting stupefied
5. Astonished at the arrogance with which the words were flung at them, the stupefied crowd stood transfixed
6. Astonished at the arrogance with which the words were flung at them, the stupefied crowd
7. Betty gave her a stupefied glance
8. Bhupinder was stupefied at my straightforward answer
9. He nods, shuts the door on his way out, stunned and stupefied, completely giving in to your wishes, too confused to argue, as baffled as a hard-nosed scientist taking orders from a corpse
10. “What thing?” repeated Jai, stupefied
11. It wasn’t the killing that had stupefied him, it was the fact that it had been Skinny who had done the killing
12. Before the ashramites could gather their wits, the swamiji stupefied them all by asking Suresh to sit beside him
13. In a singsong voice he half spoke, half whispered, ―yes—yes—yes, Grandfather, the journey begins, the journey begins…‖ Whipping his body around, the entranced man straddled the stupefied nurse and brandished the gore stained club over her head
14. The stupefied coin collector took no move
15. Ross who appeared stupefied at what he was hearing Bill
16. Angela was stupefied and she stood there with her arms folded over her chest
17. She pondered with a stupefied eye into the depth of the black coffee
18. ,” Johnny sighed and the tight coil of his shoulders, hands, and body began to unravel as he was stupefied about what to say to the sheriff, “I could sit here and lie to you, Sheriff, and tell you Paul O’Grady is a good man--the type of man you want your sister to be married to and that you would want as your own kin, but I’m not about to waste our time
19. Beth was looking at the problem kind of stupefied and not doing anything about it
20. Amidst the uproar, I plied him with carefully rationed drinks and carefully considered questions and at the end, when I left him, stupefied and glassy-eyed, I knew enough of ‘Sonny Boy Vern’ to put an end to his career of liar and confidence trickster once and for all
21. Though he had the highly dazed look of a stupefied drunkard, he maintained his balance perfectly and smelled perfectly normal with no indication of any inebriating beverages on his clothes or elsewhere
22. talking, drinking from cans, sitting stupefied by the blue light
23. He was stupefied by her reaction
24. They were stupefied
25. I can read his thoughts from his stupefied expression, but I don't have the energy to explain it’s a joke
26. That aspect alone would have stupefied
27. He did the same with the other chain on the other ankle of the stupefied young man
28. ” Her voice was tranquillity itself washing over his stupefied state and he let himself be pulled away from the bar and exit the pub with only one further imprecation aimed at the barman’s questionable sexual habits with a horse
29. They were stupefied on hearing this news which would save them from the humility of want and disgrace and turn their lives into ones of affluence, happiness and plenty which they could never have dreamt of in their entire life
30. Joel could only stare at her in stupefied, stunned amazement for a few minutes, as she continued in a tone of voice devoid of all emotion
31. On this occasion, while the accountant’s spirit was in this state of shock and was directed entirely to the apparently murdered man who was writhing in pain and covered with blood, another member of the gang stretched out his hand and quickly took the bag from the hand of the accountant, who was still stupefied by the sight of the flowing blood and who let the bag slip from his hand, totally unawares
32. power had stupefied him because he had the same dumbass look on his face
33. Act, and then selling that bullshit to the stupefied sheep? That act is the most
34. going to find out just how stupefied and sleeping the sheep are
35. I sat there, stupefied
36. Olin was stupefied at the accusation and made no response for several moments
37. “Is that so ?” reacts the man, stupefied by all he is learning
38. Openly they both stared at one another stupefied and perplexed by what they'd seen
39. all, the need to be stupefied
40. stupefied, to see that life can be magical, that there is more than
41. Once they declined into stupefied stupidity and incompetence, they began hiring mercenaries to populate their armies
42. Pablo had his face glued to the window as we passed, staring into the Cadillac with a stupefied look on his face
43. He simply looked at her stupefied when she said, “You repair
44. victim to an event of such gruesome similarity that it had literally stupefied and paralysed
45. Great rents and splits branched out in the solid walls, like crystallisation; stupefied birds wheeled about and dropped into the furnace; four fierce figures trudged away, East, West, North, and South, along the night-enshrouded roads, guided by the beacon they had lighted, towards their next destination
46. I stood stupefied, wholly abandoned, it seemed, by Heaven, declared the enemy of the earth that bore me, the air refusing me breath for my sighs, the water moisture for my tears; it was only the fire that gathered strength so that my whole frame glowed with rage and jealousy
47. "Hush, senor," said Sancho, "don't talk that way, but open your eyes, and come and pay your respects to the lady of your thoughts, who is close upon us now;" and with these words he advanced to receive the three village lasses, and dismounting from Dapple, caught hold of one of the asses of the three country girls by the halter, and dropping on both knees on the ground, he said, "Queen and princess and duchess of beauty, may it please your haughtiness and greatness to receive into your favour and good-will your captive knight who stands there turned into marble stone, and quite stupefied and benumbed at finding himself in your magnificent presence
48. "What is the matter?" he asked, stupefied
49. The notary remained quite stupefied, his eyes fixed on his fine embroidered slippers
50. Don Quixote, bruised and stupefied, without raising his visor said in a weak feeble voice as if he were speaking out of a tomb, "Dulcinea del Toboso is the fairest woman in the world, and I the most unfortunate knight on earth; it is not fitting that this truth should suffer by my feebleness; drive your lance home, sir knight, and take my life, since you have taken away my honour
1. Stupefies And Jeopardizes Our Future, by Mark Bauerlein, is a book with plenty of warning
2. Stupefies them first
3. Religious superstition is encouraged by the erection of churches built from money collected from the people, by holidays, processions, painting, architecture, music, by incense that stupefies the brain, and, above all, by the maintenance of the so-called clergy, whose duty consists in befogging the minds of men and keeping them in a continual state of imbecility, what with the solemnity of their services, their sermons, their intervention with the private lives of men in time of marriage, birth, and death
1. When the worldwide web is used to stupefy it becomes a lethal weapon
2. and don’t allow them to stupefy you with their ability to commit mind control
3. They were given anything they wanted, or whatever the nobility could procure for them to stupefy them and keep them docile
4. All who knew Sancho Panza were astonished to hear him speak so elegantly, and did not know what to attribute it to unless it were that office and grave responsibility either smarten or stupefy men's wits
5. It is to stupefy the senses and to bring on ecstasies—a thing, moreover, very easy in persons of the weaker sex, who are more delicate than the other
6. “Well, all the classical authors have been translated into all languages, so it was not for the sake of studying the classics they introduced Latin, but solely as a police measure, to stupefy the intelligence
7. The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities, from the money collected from the masses, and these, with the aid of painting, architecture, music, incense, but chiefly by the maintenance of the so-called clergy, stupefy the masses: their duty consists in this, that with their representations, the pathos of the services, their sermons, their interference in the private lives of the people,—at births, marriages, deaths,—they bedim the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction
8. And so, to preach this Christian teaching and confirm it by a Christian example, we establish among these people agonizing prisons, guillotines, gallows, capital punishments, preparations for murder, for which we use all our strength; we establish for the common people idolatrous doctrines, which are to stupefy them; we establish the governmental sale of intoxicants,—wine, tobacco, opium; we establish even prostitution; we give the land to those who do not need it; we establish spectacles of senseless luxury amidst wretchedness; we destroy every possibility of every semblance of a Christian public opinion; we cautiously destroy the established Christian public opinion,—and then we quote these very men, who have carefully been corrupted by ourselves, and whom we lock up, like wild beasts, in places from which they cannot get away, and in which they grow more bestial still, or whom we kill, as examples of the impossibility of acting upon them otherwise than through violence
9. Nevertheless, I rose and took the revolver, but, strange thing, I remembered that formerly I had very often had suicidal ideas, that that very night, on the cars, it had seemed to me easy, especially easy because I thought how it would stupefy her
10. And this is the only explanation of the dreadful intensity with which men of modern times strive to stupefy themselves, with spirits, tobacco, opium, cards, reading newspapers, traveling, and all kinds of spectacles and amusements
11. And to preach this Christian truth and to support it by Christian example we set up among them prisons, guillotines, gallows, preparations for murder; we diffuse among the common herd idolatrous superstitions to stupefy them; we sell them spirits, tobacco, and opium to brutalize them; we even organize legalized prostitution; we give land to those who do not need it; we make a display of senseless luxury in the midst of suffering poverty; we destroy the possibility of anything like a Christian public opinion, and studiously try to suppress what Christian public opinion is existing
