I was upon a little height; he caught my shoulder as he sprang, and we both came to the ground below together.

Growling horribly close to my ear, he shook me as a terrier-dog does a rat.

The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat.

It causes a sort of dreaminess, _in which there was no sense of pain or feeling of terror_, though I was quite conscious of all that was happening.

It was like what patients partially under the influence of chloroform describe, who see all the operation, but feel not the knife.
This singular condition was not the result of any mental process.