The professor was noted for his stupefaction of the students. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I drew back in stupefaction, but he hurried on. From Wordnik.com. [The Window at the White Cat] Reference
Dominique Bussereau to express "stupefaction" that Paris-based Alstom SA had missed out. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com -- Top News] Reference
He looked at it in a kind of stupefaction, as if he had been endowed with a trident, a sceptre, or a spade. From Wordnik.com. [Men, Women, and Boats] Reference
While these stupenduous events were transpiring around and above me, a kind of stupefaction seemed to have settled upon my senses. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Day of Wrath and of Glory] Reference
March threw himself back in his chair and looked at him with a kind of stupefaction, in which his eye wandered to the doorway, where he saw. From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
Sometimes only rude words really express the kind of stupefaction you can feel. From Wordnik.com. [The Gazpacho Gestapo: UCLA student tasered for not IDing, being brown « raincoaster] Reference
And in just that moment of stupefaction Dan acted. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
My stupefaction was pronounced enough to excite his wonder. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
"They belong to me?" replied I, overcome with stupefaction. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
Following her gesture he stared in terror and stupefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Omega, the Man] Reference
Spasms, convulsions, stupefaction and coma may be manifested. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
For the moment, I was astonished to the verge of stupefaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
"You went -- to the yacht!" she repeated in tones of stupefaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
Among the Mollies the first to recover from his stupefaction was Job. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] Reference
She had clasped her hands together; and gazed at him in stupefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference
"Oh my, me!" she exclaimed, staring at them in hopeless stupefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
"What's this?" said my father, gazing at her with stupefaction and growing anger. From Wordnik.com. [Paula the Waldensian] Reference
As I mused in stupefaction upon the hint he had uttered, he pointed with his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
Great was the stupefaction of the friar when he was told that he was under arrest. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
And I stared at her, in utter stupefaction: and then, all at once I began to laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Substance of a Dream] Reference
On the part of the worker, it promotes varying degrees of stupefaction or irritation. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Had Paul seized that moment of stupefaction, he might have escaped, but he made no effort. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
The girls, their laughter quenched, gazed at each other for a few seconds with stupefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference
He stared in stupefaction at Lawrence Teck's stony countenance, then suddenly burst into sobs. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
The truly wise will not barter visions of glory for mere animal excitement and mental stupefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
And as I started, staring at him in stupefaction, he said with a laugh: Ha! thou hast heard it before?. From Wordnik.com. [The Substance of a Dream] Reference
There was a moment of stupefaction on the part of the boys at the suddenness of what promised to be a tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys' First Wireless Or Winning the Ferberton Prize] Reference
And I stared at her in stupefaction, and I struck my hands together and exclaimed: Art thou mad, or am I dreaming?. From Wordnik.com. [The Substance of a Dream] Reference
My spirits had been rising steadily every moment since I had recovered from my stupefaction at the sight of Pelagie. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
There was pallid stupefaction, sullen silence, faces of black despair -- every kind of face except the happy variety. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
Here again was enacted the scene we had in Rio; as there, so here, they looked at each other in helpless stupefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
But she remained nerveless, powerless to move, frozen in her stupefaction, while her vehicle pursued its crazy course. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
Yet as the assembly showed more stupefaction than calmness, he dismissed the deputies under a guard of auxiliary horse. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
The wholesale arrests that followed immediately, and filled the country with stupefaction, made havoc on all sides of her. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
I remember that in the stupefaction which for a few minutes settled down on us, I felt we were really fighting against fate. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
Plutina, staring wide-eyed, saw to her stupefaction that tears trickled from the eyes of the maudlin man; she heard him whimpering. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
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