stupefaction

Passepartout, not yet recovered from his stupefaction, clung mechanically to the carpet-bag, with its enormous treasure.

They could only look in consternation and stupefaction at the body of the Green Man.

"Wh-at?" interrupted Miss Polly, the look of stupefaction on her face changing to one of angry indignation.

Stupefaction is not resignation; and it is stupefaction to remain in ignorance,--to shut up all the avenues by which the life of your fellow-men might become known to you.

But Raoul's stupefaction was so great that he stood there dumfounded, without a gesture, without a word.

We met, after I had brought home little Miles, more intimately than ever on the ground of my stupefaction, my general emotion: so monstrous was I then ready to pronounce it that such a child as had now been revealed to me should be under an interdict.

Stupefaction more than fear made us dumb and motionless.

Valentine witnessed this scene with a sentiment of stupefaction. Every minute she had expected that it would vanish and give place to another vision; but the man, instead of dissolving like a shadow, again approached her, and said in an agitated voice, "Now you may drink."

The officer's face expressed complete stupefaction. He opened at once his little eyes and his great mouth, to inhale better the joke his eminence deigned to address to him, and ended by a burst of laughter, so violent that his great limbs shook in hilarity as they would have done in an ague.

The inquiry, for an instant, held her friend, yet only, it seemed, for a stupefaction that was almost amusement.

A stupefaction had come into these features, to her regard; it meant the illness of her mother.

At first there were outcries, and then followed general stupefaction; business was abandoned; work was flung aside, and all noise ceased.