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For him it was no new conviction that his presence in any part of the world, from Africa to the steppes of Muscovy alike, was enough to dumfound people and impel them to insane self-oblivion.

War and Peace 2003

Books were written on the ethics of the game; experts came to the front; ping pong weeklies and monthlies were founded, to dumfound the masses, and the very air vibrated with the "ping" and the "pong."

As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous

If her idea had been utterly to dumfound the unsuspecting professor, she succeeded admirably.

Prudence Says So Ethel Hueston

"No less than does your insolence dumfound me," she retorted, with crimson cheeks.

The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes Rafael Sabatini 1912

The grief of the gayer sorts of stout people appears, sometimes, to dumfound even themselves.

The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

He invented the anemoscope and the air-balance, and being thus enabled to weight the air and note the changes that preceded storms and calms, he was able still further to dumfound his wondering fellow-Magde-burgers by more or less accurate predictions about the weather.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

This girl utterly dumfounded me, and in the conceit of youth I thought it strange that any girl could dumfound me.

Lords of the North 1903

Genius can cross the Alps, can conquer Europe, can dumfound the world.

A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

He stared at her, whirled about, surveyed the vacant landscape, and once more turned dumfound-ed toward her.

'way Down In Lonesome Cove 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

For him it was no new conviction that his presence in any part of the world, from Africa to the steppes of Muscovy alike, was enough to dumfound people and impel them to insane self-oblivion.

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869