We commend it to parents who are selecting literature for their children, assured, as we are, that it will convince them that books may be found which will engage the attention, and stimulate the imagination, of the young, without dissipating the mind, or Blunting the moral sensibilities.
"Winter Fun"
William O. Stoddard
Broken-hearted at our terrible loss, and anyone who feels respect for her, and wishes to be helpful at such an hour as this will leave her in peace till time has done something toward Blunting the agony she is in.
"King of the Castle"
George Manville Fenn
She was a country girl, acquainted from childhood with facts of life which town-bred girls would not have known without a Blunting of the sensibilities, and why should she be different from other country girls?
"The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009