Example Sentences

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I must watch this ghastly countenance—these blue, still lips forbidden to unclose—these eyes now shut, now opening, now wandering through the room, now fixing on me, and ever glazed with the dulness of horror.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

So would she chide my dulness: fair one, I thank ye.

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): The Loyal Subject by Beaumont, Francis

In this form the temperature may never rise above 102° F., the eruption be absent or very scanty, and the characteristic stupor or dulness be wholly wanting.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

This so contrasted with his previous signs of ignorance and dulness, as to excite suspicions of imposture, and he was therefore committed to a tower used for the confinement of rogues and vagabonds.

From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous

After busy engagement comes dulness; after triumph, flatness and sadness.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus