Nor was there any means of dispelling the Benumbing sensation, or effectually resisting the cold.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
My attainment of so much pay in the past few years brings home to me what an all-Benumbing salve it is.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
He sought to deliver them from the Benumbing effect of inadequate science,-for science must always be inadequate, as Newton so forcibly expressed, when he defined it "gathering a few pebbles on the shores of the infinite ocean of truth."
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody