numb with shock; numb with boredom

In our own tongue salmon are fry as babies, parr as children, smolt as adolescents, and grilse as adults.

A considerable number of species of birds build their nests in close proximity to, or even inside of, nests of aggressive, stinging insects—bees, wasps, and ants. Thus, in eastern Africa, Loveridge (1922) found in the case of a little weaver, the cordon bleu, Uraeginthus angolensis (Linnaeus), that in 19 out of 20 instances the birds built their nests ...

Ready-witted tenderness […] never stagnates in vain lamentations while there is any room for hope.