"Benumb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... extensively. Mercurial fumigation. Turpeth mineral. To salivate the patient as soon as possible. Exsection or a caustic on the scar, even after the appearance of hydrophobia. Put a tight bandage on the limb above the scar of the old wound to benumb the pained tendon, however long the wound may have been healed. Could a hollow catheter of elastic gum, caoutchouc, be introduced into the oesophagus by the mouth or nostril, and liquid nourishment be thus conveyed into the stomach? See Desault's Journal, Case ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... his throat, and seize the blue cold-gleaming steel, And grimly try the tempered edge he was so soon to feel! A sickness crept upon my heart, and dizzy swam my head,— I could not stir—I could not cry—I felt benumb'd and dead; Black icy horrors struck me dumb, and froze my senses o'er; I closed my eyes in utter fear, and strove ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... has Eternity a place On any starry summit. The winds of Death are wide as Life, And leave no world untouched—but race, And soon with Night benumb it. ...
— Nirvana Days • Cale Young Rice
... harp must stand, No minstrel dare the theme awake; Guilt would benumb his palsied hand, His harp in shuddering ...
— The Mysteries of All Nations • James Grant
... flash'd on the dinted ground, Down through his steadfast foe, yet made no scar On that immortal Shade, or death-like wound; But Time was long benumb'd, and stood ajar, And then with baffled rage took flight afar, To weep his hurt in some Cimmerian gloom, Or meaner fames (like mine) to mock and mar, Or sharp his scythe for royal strokes of doom, Whetting its edge on ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
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