"Numbly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Numbly he obeyed. He seemed incapable of doing otherwise. But when, still with that unwavering steadiness of purpose, Burke stooped and began to unfasten the straps of his gaiters, he suddenly cried out as if he had been struck ...
— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell
... read in my book, because I could not,' she said numbly. 'Your son disturbed my reading. But I did not come to look, because I ...
— The Fifth Queen Crowned • Ford Madox Ford
... he was very low, he gave way to a little fretting to me, he never, I am convinced, let fall one querulous word in the presence of his wife. She sat by her husband's side, and when things were at their worst the two said naught. The wife numbly watched her Bill's face, turning now and then to glance at the activities of little Bill with his engine, or to smile her thanks to the patients who sometimes came and gave the child pickaback rides. When I intruded, I knew I was ...
— Observations of an Orderly - Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital • Ward Muir |
