1 Scarlett's face did not change but her lips went white--like a person who has received a stunning blow without warning and who, in the first moments of shock, does not realize what has happened.
2 A swimming nausea compounded of hunger, sleeplessness, exhaustion and stunning blows came on suddenly and she gripped the carved roses under her hand.
3 The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eye-balls ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.
4 If the words had been lightning they could not have leaped with a more stunning suddenness from Huck's blanched lips.
5 The effect of the present revelation was stunning; he trembled and was on the verge of apoplexy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit. 6 "A stunning blow from the big Greek lexicon, which an old fellow in a black gown fired at him," said Ned.
7 Some of the women were weeping with joy, but most looked too stunned to realize the heavy blows that had fallen upon them.
8 It was a ghastly trip home, with Aunt Pitty crying into her handkerchief, Melanie sitting erect and white and Scarlett slumped, stunned in the corner of the carriage.
9 And she was too stunned to cry or to speak.
10 Now, as she looked at Rhett, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.
11 He stepped abruptly down from the wagon and, as she watched him, stunned with bewilderment, he came around to her side of the wagon.
12 The combined shock of the coming of the Yankees and her death had stunned him.
13 Now the curtain had been rung down forever, the footlights dimmed and the audience suddenly vanished, while the stunned old actor remained on his empty stage, waiting for his cues.
14 She was blinded by her hair and stunned by his action.
15 She would be stunned and incredulous and would speak gentle words that stung despite their gentleness, would talk of honor and honesty and truth and duty to one's neighbor.