He rode without saddle or stirrups, which, however, was no great handicap to anyone who had spent the time he had in the cattle country, and, though it was numbingly cold and he had left his furs behind him, scarcely felt the frost, for his brain was busy.
"The Cattle-Baron's Daughter"
Harold Bindloss
She stared at the thick, red, cruel, animal lips of the man with a loathing that almost paralyzed her power to move; while his hands pressed numbingly into the flesh of her arms.
"The Title Market"
Emily Post
The truth flashed numbingly over his brain.
"Steve Yeager"
William MacLeod Raine