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    The Active Stupefaction Harvest Campaign 2009

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  • Stupefaction more than fear made us dumb and motionless.

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • Stupefaction gave way to laughter as Simna roared with amusement.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • Stupefaction gave way to laughter as Simna roared with amusement.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • Stupefaction, chagrin, the feeling of having been had?

    Hard Hit Women Johnson, Diane 1977

  • Stupefaction gave way to understanding, and when Jacob finally saw the wagons, that distinctively Egyptian thing, sent besides by Joseph to transport the aged father to Egypt, then conviction grew on him and "his spirit revived."

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • Stupefaction is not resignation; and it is stupefaction to remain in ignorance, —to shut up all the avenues by which the life of your fellow-men might become known to you.

    III. The Wavering Balance. Book V—Wheat and Tares 1917

  • Stupefaction, sorrow, indignation, denial, vengeance, the variety of expression which the painter has gathered together in this picture, the depth of the analysis, the veracity of the types and physiognomies, the power and the accumulation of contrasts are without parallel in all previous art; the countless studies made for each piece denote in the author a world of new preoccupations.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Stupefaction rested upon the student as he recognized Tessibel Skinner.

    Tess of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912

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