The two
speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently.
I cut myself, I burned myself, I got
speechless from fatigue, and giddy from want of sleep.
Lady Montbarry looked round again at the
speechless stranger.
Though
speechless, he appeared conscious, and it was thought by those who knew him best that if the end had unfortunately been delayed beyond the usual hour for opening the store the effect upon him would have been deplorable.
She was still stunned and
speechless with emotion when later she leaned over her friend to kiss her and softly say good-by.
With many other particulars concerning Ahab, always had it remained a mystery to some, why it was, that for a certain period, both before and after the sailing of the Pequod, he had hidden himself away with such Grand-Lama-like exclusiveness; and, for that one interval, sought
speechless refuge, as it were, among the marble senate of the dead.
Everything irrational should, if possible, be excluded; or, at all events, it should lie outside the action of the play (as, in the Oedipus, the hero's ignorance as to the manner of Laius' death); not within the drama,--as in the Electra, the messenger's account of the Pythian games; or, as in the Mysians, the man who has come from Tegea to Mysia and is still
speechless. The plea that otherwise the plot would have been ruined, is ridiculous; such a plot should not in the first instance be constructed.
Starting at the unforeseen concluding exclamation of the so suddenly scornful old man, Stubb was
speechless a moment; then said excitedly, I am not used to be spoken to that way, sir; I do but less than half like it, sir.
And at last Dab-Dab found him on the other side of the village in a stable-yard, where all the dogs of the country-side were standing round him
speechless with admiration and respect.
As with a whisk her short skirts vanished into the darkness, the two spectators--Miss Bertha and Miss Monica Williams--sat looking at each other in
speechless amazement.
She stood before him
speechless, motionless, struck to stone.
To it she had come back joyfully after all her absences; at its window she had knelt through that night of bitter agony when she believed Gilbert dying, and by it she had sat in
speechless happiness the night of her betrothal.