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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


    1. 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


    2. They could hear Úrsula fighting against the laws of creation to maintain the line, and José Arcadio Buendía searching for the mythical truth of the great inventions, and Fernanda praying, and Colonel Aureliano Buendía 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 they would go on loving each other in their shape as apparitions long after other species of future animals would steal from the insects the paradise of misery that the insects were finally stealing from man


    3. Then Aslan continued with logic and stupefying ingenuity that crystallised his deep humanistic feeling, ‘Your Excellency, seventy families are suffering this bitter unchanging situation


    4. Stupefying television, the newspaper too, but didn’t they do that when you were young?


    5. The results were stupefying


    6. result of the narcotic action of alcohol in deadening his pain, and stupefying his senses


    7. hired--put, doubtless, some stupefying potion in what I ate or drank, the morning I left town


    8. The third thing is perhaps the most stupefying


    9. He hated Mamma Valerius for giving him such news as that with such stupefying calmness


    10. They also seized in his cell a half-empty bottle which contained the remains of the stupefying wine with

    11. 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


    12. The amount of venom injected is usually tiny, but it contains concentrated doses of fast-acting poisons, similar to those in snake venoms – nerve poisons, stupefying ingredients, a convulsant, enzymes and sometimes formic acid


    13. I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager


    14. All repair to the eating-houses and taverns, from the traffic of which part of the revenue of the government is derived, and there they give themselves up to drink, stupefying their senses so that they care nothing for the injustice done to them


    15. The governor, in spite of all the stupefying effect of his surroundings, cannot help hesitating when the moment comes to give final decisive command


    16. The George Edwardes shows have of late displayed a marked tendency to a sort of stupefying monotony


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