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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

Page 156—stimulute amended to stimulate—"... something like an attempt to stimulate the superficial dulness ..."

From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by Hazlitt, William

I have seen hundreds of Poles, of all classes, in Paris, and I have not yet met with a face of even common dulness among them.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

I feared her illness might be caused from dulness or ennui.

From It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) by Wood, Mrs. Henry

The headache may grow more violent or may be replaced by increased dulness, which may sometimes be so decided as to render it difficult to fully rouse the patient.

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