was benumbing
- past progressive of benumb.
Example Sentences
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There was but little wind, but the cold was benumbing; neither of us spoke, and the silence was unbroken save by the monotonous patter, patter of the horse's hoofs on the hard road.
From Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by O'Donnell, Elliott
The cold was benumbing, and both were suffering.
From 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God by J?sika, Mikl?s
A slow paralysis was benumbing the limbs of the insurrection, and even at the heart its vitality was plainly declining.
From A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History by Nicolay, John George
That gave check to a creeping blankness which was benumbing Pan.
From Valley of Wild Horses by Grey, Zane
But even Brandon, with his fund of worldly philosophy, had not learned not to put his trust in princesses, and his surprise was benumbing when Mary turned angrily upon him.
From When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Major, Charles
