Lexicographical Neighbors of Dumbfoundering
Literary usage of Dumbfoundering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"The pros-- pect was dumbfoundering. She had to think of appeasing her Emma.
Redworth, for his part, actually supposed she had accepted his escorting in ..."
2. Poet Lore (1900)
"... moment and under stress of feeling caused apparently by Hamlet's unexpected
and dumbfoundering discovery: " He took me by the wrist and held me hard. ..."
3. Books and Things by Philip Littell (1919)
"Of Hector his creator has written, in the stage directions to " Man and Superman,"
that " the engaging freshness of his personality and the dumbfoundering ..."
4. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"... engaging freshness of his per- presented in briefer form the same ideas.
sonality and the dumbfoundering stale- УУ ness of his culture make it extremely ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1893)
"After the first dumbfoundering effect of the communication had passed, Kilpatrick
sprang from his chair, his face flushed, his eyes glittering. ..."
6. A Diary of Two Parliaments by Henry William Lucy (1885)
"... sat sullen and silent, incapable of answering the argument, even by their
favourite scheme of counter-cheering. This dumbfoundering of the ..."
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