I nodded dumbly and he slit the envelope. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He looked at me dumbly from a face that might have belonged to a man of sixty, so furrowed, tightly drawn, and full of pain it was. From Wordnik.com. [Revolution] Reference
"This, too?" she was saying dumbly, within herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
She waved him aside dumbly and tottered to a couch. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
I stared dumbly down at the little book and laughed. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
The two were staring dumbly, sufferingly, at each other. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
Jud stared dumbly at the speaker as though almost stunned. From Wordnik.com. [The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound A Tour on Skates and Iceboats] Reference
She just sat dumbly there gazing into her grandsire's face. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
"Well!" exclaimed Mrs. West, as Persis looked at her dumbly. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Sarah listened dumbly, fascinated by her sister's eloquence. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
Her lips moved dumbly and the room seemed to quiver around her. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
She looked at him dumbly, unable to keep her lips from twitching. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
They stared dumbly, questioningly, fearfully from one to the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
Murmuring some chill, indistinct monosyllable, Elsie glanced dumbly at. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
Everyone else is standing still in the slaughter lines, staring dumbly. From Wordnik.com. [A Night at the Plywood Palace] Reference
As the Doctor went on with his tale, relaxation had stolen dumbly about. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
She pointed dumbly to the window, and fell a-sobbing louder than before. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
He thumbed cartridges into the chambers of the cylinder and listened dumbly. From Wordnik.com. [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference
Often unexpressed, this, but felt dumbly below the chatter and dry laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
But no! This time he will not leave, he will not dumbly bend to his penance. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
He thumbed the cartridges into the chambers of the cylinder and listened dumbly. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Twister] Reference
She stares dumbly into its glistening eyes that look like coals of fire in the dark. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
And that figure that crouched, dumbly, on the floor, beneath the protective ikon?. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
For his elder brother, I knew, had not character enough to reproach me, even dumbly. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
Sandy gazed dumbly at Treadwell and could not frame words to call the other to a halt. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
She removed her hat and jacket dumbly, wondering which dusty surface they would occupy. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
How wretchedly everything still was progressing by listening dumbly the day long to you. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
He stared at the file of men in front of him as dumbly as the ox approaching the butcher. From Wordnik.com. [Shelled by an Unseen Foe] Reference
She started for the door while the girls watched her dumbly, not knowing what to do or say. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
The mare's beautiful liquid eyes looked dumbly back at him, and he stooped and rubbed her nose. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
The girls ceased screaming and stood looking on dumbly, unable to understand what had happened. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar] Reference
Her beautiful eyes, widened, and speaking dumbly of infinite sorrow, sought mine, and held them. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
While somewhere in the nether world, my bailiwick, their carcasses clamour dumbly for sentience. From Wordnik.com. [E (novel extract)] Reference
She took it fromhishand and held it dumbly while he made another for John and a third for himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Palatski Man] Reference
He looked at me dumbly, and then turned his face away; and I saw his arms writhing in their bonds. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
Pretty pushed her own plastic ovals an inch up her nose, dumbly begging her mother for freedom. From Wordnik.com. [Pretty] Reference
I felt along the sides, dumbly, as if a tag or lettering not apparent to my eye would reveal itself under my touch. From Wordnik.com. [Box] Reference
Both of this week's Hollywood blockbusters are sword-and-sorcery epics of Manichean bent, one dumbly solemn, the other alertly cheerful. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Airbender; The Sorcerer's Apprentice] Reference
Luther Mishmash stood numbly in the yard, dumbly staring at the soiled pair of underpants flapping lazily in the breeze on the wash line. From Wordnik.com. [Luther Loves Lucy] Reference
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