Numbed with fear

Usage examples of petrified.

She finished dressing, staunched the blood, and went off in a sedanchair, while I remained petrified, feeling that I did not deserve to live, and finding her conduct utterly outrageous and incomprehensible.

One day they were petrified by my asking them whether they did not sometimes sleep in the same bed, so as to give each other proofs of the tenderness of their mutual affection.

I was petrified, and called to my landlord to witness the unrighteous order I had received.

In the morning, Eliste reluctantly parted with five biquins for use of the washbasin, cold water and a petrified scrap of soap.

Sinking down upon the stone lip of a big through fed by the run-off of the public pump, she sat as if petrified, thinking of nothing at all.

Then rang out the wild, deafening shrieks of the women, and the terror-stricken screams of men, and all the figures on the raft remained petrified in their places.

The latter sat with drooping head, motionless, as though petrified in thought and prayer.

Foma also bowed low to him, bowed and remained as though petrified, standing with drooping head, his hand leaning against the table.

Foma stepped aside in confusion, seated himself in an armchair, and, petrified with curiosity, wide-eyed, began to watch the meeting of father and son.

She stopped as though petrified, holding a tray in her outstretched hands and listened to everything her brother said about the punishment inflicted upon him.

Zubov had not expected the attack, and he remained as petrified, with his hand uplifted.

And he remained as though petrified in a broken, uncomfortable attitude, all distorted, with an expression of pain on his face.

I pushed them aside, and entered the room so swiftly and suddenly that I found the gentleman in a state of nature while the girl remained stretched on the bed as if petrified by my sudden apparition.

I doubt if Alphonse heard me, being, fortunately for himself, almost petrified with horror.

We stood for a moment petrified, then turned and fled through a gate behind us into a walled garden, fell into, rather than found, a fortunate ditch, and lay there, scarce daring to whisper to each other until the stars were out.