Quotes About Numbly

Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone – not least himself . . . A tragic loss, his mind echoed numbly as he slipped away.

I call him Whistletop." "You call him Whistletop," Cirocco repeated numbly. "That's right. He's a blimp." "A blimp.

The mechanic could lift up the bonnet of the car and show me four dwarves strapped to a pair of tandems and tell me that the motor was actually dwarf-powered and that one of the little fellows had to be replaced, and I'd just be numbly writing out a cheque and scribbling 'new dwarf - car' on the stub.