"I would see your face, yes," forcing the words out between numb lips.

"Wait for me, too," Jake said through numb lips.

He had to force the words past numb and quivering lips.

"Help me, Sturm," she whispered through lips almost too numb to shape the words.

"I've heard that said," he mumbled, his lips bruised and numb.

"I don't drink much," Gustine replies, having trouble getting the words through her numb lips.

The feeling was beginning to come back to my numb lips.

The words were difficult to force through numb lips.

"I should think you would," Marcia said through her increasingly numb lips.

"We must rest," Caramon said through lips so numb he was practically inaudible.