What is "dumbly"

Usage examples of "dumbly".

Olivia nodded dumbly, though she grew more talkative when she saw the mosaic of Salome above the Baptistry, captivated by the extraordinary allure in the slender figure in the clinging dress.

Henceforth this year would creep toward its low mark ever more slowly, pausing at the zero of solstice, obliquely peering through a certain slit at Stonehenge, and returning dumbly north, climbing the spine of the west, from the caude of Tierra del Fuego up the flex of Cordilleras, ending here, at what would be the nape of the Brooks range, the archaic brainstem of the planet, where, eons ago, a landbridge had offered passage to migrants from the east.

For just a certain over-degree of strain had brought about the dumbly helpful anaesthesia of dazedness, so this sudden overwhelming supreme fact of horror produced, in turn, its reaction from inertness to action.

Nevertheless, horror possessed him, and he fell on his knees, uplooking in the face of his Guide, and dumbly entreating help from some calamity he could not understand.

The officers saluted the standard of Barca at the masthead with a clenched fist, but the slave gangs who were doomed for ever to fight the lake weed stood dumbly and watched with patient animal eyes.

Silence and silvern solitude till it made you dumbly shrink, And you thought to hear with an outward ear the things you thought to think.

He proceeded to explain the cinematic process in detail as Nemo sat in even greater stupefication, smiling dumbly every so often and nodding, as if he himself had often thought of doing it in similar fashion.

But Theos, who had listened dumbly until now, began to feel a sudden sorrowful aching at his heart, a sense of coming desolation, .

Our self-conscious and considerate visitors dumbly expressed amazement at their informal reception and our unfestive attire.

Thirty yards away milled a small flock of yellowish sheep, their filthy coats deeply encrusted with the dust and burrs of the desert, their eyes peering dumbly from beneath unsheared locks of fleece falling over their faces as they meandered calmly down a barely visible trail in the gravel.

Her hand wiped across her face and she dumbly regarded the white moisture it removed.

Staring dumbly out at the toiling sweltering human ant-hill Comus marvelled how missionary enthusiasts could labour hopefully at the work of transplanting their religion, with its homegrown accretions of fatherly parochial benevolence, in this heat-blistered, feverscourged wilderness, where men lived like groundbait and died like flies.

Not one word did his senior legates say, just waited dumbly to be told what Pompey wanted to do next.

After staring dumbly at it for most of a minute, she reemerged from the chamber, and called Lurt over.

He glanced from one to the other, and Olivia smiled as Victoria shook her head dumbly.