We are angered even by the full acceptance of our humiliating confessions—how much more by hearing in hard distinct syllables from the lips of a near observer, those confused murmurs which we try to call morbid, and strive against as if they were the oncoming of numbness!
When night fell and she had undressed and got into bed, the merciful numbness passed away and she lay in anguish and thought of her island under the stars.
Yet the curious numbness that pervaded her being was in a way worse than pain.
The curious numbness that follows on a staggering blow possessed her.
'You're likely to wake up with numbness and tingling, and it can increase the chance of muscle and joint pain,' she said.
Watching his chest rise and fall to the rhythm of the hissing ventilator, a curious numbness washes over me, the same numbness a man might feel seconds after he has swerved his car and barely avoided a head-on collision.
Blaha: Obviously, chest pain associated with exercise, especially if it's persistent; any shortness of breath that you haven't felt that before; numbness or tingling in your left arm or jaw.
Gradually weariness grew upon me; a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my mind even in the midst of my terrors, until sleep at last supervened and in my sea-tossed coracle I lay and dreamed of home and the old Admiral Benbow.
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains , My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, ,, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains , One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk , 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, , But being too happy in thine happiness,-- , That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees ,, In some melodious plot , Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
