"Stun" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... acknowledge," said Cam, "I've ben a leetle slack about gittin' a grave-stun up fur Dollie, seein' she's still livin', but I have threatened her time an' agin to put a winder to her memory in the church an' git her in shape to legalize it if she don't learn how to git me up a good meal. Darned poor ...
— The Price of the Prairie - A Story of Kansas • Margaret Hill McCarter
... there, my dear,' replied the little man. 'If he was so much as to move a inch without leave, Green would jist fetch him a crack over the head with the telescope, as would send him into the bottom of the basket in no time, and stun him till ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... until now. Whether it will ever fully embody itself in a bridal train of a dozen stanzas or not is uncertain; but it exists potentially from the instant that the poet turns pale with it. It is enough to stun and scare anybody, to have a hot thought come crashing into his brain, and ploughing up those parallel ruts where the wagon trains of common ideas were jogging along in their regular sequences of association. No ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... struck at Bascomb's temple with his clinched fist, and he finally landed with sufficient violence to stun the big fellow. ...
— Frank Merriwell's Chums • Burt L. Standish
... out and struck her. It was a heavy blow which knocked her down, and for a moment seemed to stun her. Then she recovered her senses, and flew at him in a mad passion, weeping wildly with the ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
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