"Stunned" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... question called forth his worst passions. He cursed her again—bitterly, blasphemously—then raised his hand and struck her with his closed fist between the eyes. He knew what he was doing: she fell to the ground, stunned and bleeding. He thrust her out of his way; she lay on the floor between the bed and the window, moaning a little, but for a time utterly unconscious of all ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... Sir Lancelot with a laugh, and with spears in rest they set their horses at a great gallop. They came together so fiercely that they were both thrust backwards from their saddles and fell to the earth, half stunned and greatly bruised. ...
— King Arthur's Knights - The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls • Henry Gilbert
... before her and deliberately declare that what Ida May had known to be her own all her life long—her name and distinctive character—was actually another's—all this was so monstrous a thing that Ida May was stunned. ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... Stunned I was for a moment at his audacity. Too plainly I saw through his deception. Each day, doubtless, he had come to a low place of this sort and copied into the ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... to be the time of the war of the Two Roses, of the murder of Edward's children, and nothing else. It seemed as though the blood of the youthful princes had stained the entire century, and as if the whole nation, stunned with horror, had remained aghast and immobile. Curiosity has been felt in our days as to whether this impression was a correct one, and it has been ascertained to be false. Instead of being absorbed in the contemplation of these dreadful struggles, ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
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