Crossword-Solution: BENUMBS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The words were something like this: Ah, spirit, thy flight is mysterious! While the clouds are stirred by our wailing, And our tears fall faster in sorrow-- While the cold sweat of night benumbs us, Thou goest alone on thy journey, In the midst of the shining star people! Thou goest alone on thy journey-- Thy memory shall be our portion; Until death we must watch for the spirit! The eyes of Antelope were closed while he chanted the dirge.

Wells— What wrong have they done you? And see—another love-lorn lady comes— Alas, poor stricken dame! A gentle pensiveness her life benumbs— And mine, alone, the blame! Lady Sangazure enters.

Then I sing and I play and I paint; Though none are accomplished as I, To say so were treason: You ask me the reason? I’m diffident, modest, and shy! THE TANGLED SKEIN TRY we life-long, we can never Straighten out life’s tangled skein, Why should we, in vain endeavour, Guess and guess and guess again? Life’s a pudding full of plums Care’s a canker that benumbs.

They tell of the danger that lurks on the steep slopes of grass, where the mowers have to go down with ropes around their waists, and in the beds of the streams where the floods sweep through in the spring, and in the forests where the great trees fall and crush men like flies, and on the icy bridges where a slip is fatal, and on the high passes where the winter snowstorm blinds the eyes and benumbs the limbs of the traveller, and under the cliffs from which avalanches slide and rocks roll.

But the scheme of the junto under consideration not only strikes a palsy into every nerve of our free constitution, but in the same degree benumbs and stupefies the whole executive power, rendering Government in all its grand operations languid, uncertain, ineffective, making Ministers fearful of attempting, and incapable of executing, any useful plan of domestic arrangement, or of foreign politics.