She wondered numbly, distantly: Who was he?

Would it come in the heart or in the head, Karr wondered numbly?

I stood over him, numbly wondering why he was back so soon.

He wondered numbly if he should let her kill herself.

Karl shivered and nodded, numbly wondering if he had been hallucinating in the lateness of the hour.

He gazed around among the dancers, wondering numbly who her mother might be.

He wondered numbly why they were not taking off and then the door opened to admit another passenger.

And I wondered numbly if we would freeze here under the lash of the wind which now and again reached in to flick us.

He stared at the barred window for a few seconds, numbly wondering if perhaps he was only dreaming.

Pol stood in the middle of his bedchamber, wondering numbly how and why he was there.