After this successful demonstration of his sophistication, Mungongo was anxious that Moonspirit give an exhibition of his magic to dumbfound the chief witch-doctor, desiring most ardently to work the gramophone, to operate which he had also learned.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle
And so he would but for that whimsical element of chance, which will for ever muddle up the affairs of this world and dumbfound the prophets.
"Round the Red Lamp Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life"
Arthur Conan Doyle
I felt that in such surroundings it were not difficult to dumbfound a wandering nomad with miracles, because Nature herself had prepared the setting for it.
"Beasts, Men and Gods"
Ferdinand Ossendowski