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Benumbed at first by the suddenness of the peace accord, the settlers became increasingly restive.

From Time Magazine Archive

Benumbed and exasperated, he shrewdly solved the problem of how to summon aid: by shutting off tap lines through which beer flowed to the bar.

From Time Magazine Archive

My swimming head begins to dance death's giddy round; A shuddering chillness doth each sense confound; Benumbed is my cold sweating brow A dimness shuts my eye.

From Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) by Tutin, J. R.

Benumbed with cold, and discomposed by the sudden firing of the whites, he could not render his Irish dialect intelligible to them.

From Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

Benumbed with the winter, and freezing, You scold at the revels of May.

From The Poems of Schiller — First period by Schiller, Friedrich