For you see no one point precisely; not one distinct feature is revealed; no nose, eyes, ears, or mouth; no face; he has none, proper; nothing but that one broad firmament of a forehead, pleated with riddles;
dumbly lowering with the doom of boats, and ships, and men.
The convicts stopped when they reached the post and, while sacks were being brought, looked
dumbly around as a wounded beast looks at an approaching huntsman.
Pollyanna nodded
dumbly. Her eyes were a little wide and frightened.
In general the house was quiet,
dumbly quiet, without resonances of any sort, something like what one would imagine the interior of a convent would be.
Michael alone made no sound, suffering
dumbly in the bedlam of misery.
Her head drooped; she made no reply; she waited,
dumbly obedient to the firmer will than her own.
Then he fell to
dumbly playing, without striking the notes, while his little pupil was taken to an open window for air, and was otherwise petted and restored.
It interposed between all new resolutions and their fulfillment; it seemed like a stubborn ghost,
dumbly entreating to be laid.
Now, with a check for sixteen thousand--SIXTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS!--in his hand, he stood
dumbly, curiously unmoved.
When they had passed the little town of Stourcastle,
dumbly somnolent under its thick brown thatch, they reached higher ground.
Sir Leicester is content enough that the ironmaster should feel that there is no hurry there; there, in that ancient house, rooted in that quiet park, where the ivy and the moss have had time to mature, and the gnarled and warted elms and the umbrageous oaks stand deep in the fern and leaves of a hundred years; and where the sun-dial on the terrace has
dumbly recorded for centuries that time which was as much the property of every Dedlock--while he lasted-- as the house and lands.
The prince stood
dumbly and blindly before her, and suddenly grew pale.