Bemused she looked at the now placid surface of the tarn.
The computer did some more of the h & w routine, displayed a muscular warrior, standing quietly, a bemused expression on his face.
His passions were aflame, and his bemused brain was incapable of reckoning cost.
For awhile it seemed as if his bemused brain failed to grasp the meaning of that which had happened.
Mrs. Curtis, desperately contributing the first commonplace remark that occurred to her bemused brain.
He knew that the absence of children had provided the only sorrow in the lives of a most devoted couple, and the thought had evidently taken a subconscious form in the mind of a woman whose faculties were bemused by cold and fear.
Why, her experiences that day, the very wearing of those costly furs, and the swift whirling over the Breton roads in a luxurious car, were not negligible quantities in the arithmetical calculations that bemused the man's subtle intellect.
Coleridge was still Coleridge, not the bemused and futile mystic he was to become.
The ducking in icy water had cleared his bemused brain.
But she had done so with a view to the saving of Link's feelings, not with the faintest idea that her love-bemused slave could venture to oppose her.
Or shifting, swaying blue curtains on which silvery lines ran to form symbols and words which some bemused part of his brain almost understood, but not quite.
And was it only hisbemused and bewildered sight, Ross mused, or was her skin fairer?
I am not quite certain that women do not like this sort of thing; but really, after having bemused myself over "Daniel Deronda," I have given up trying to understand what they like.
Being a member of the Hospital Committee, I must confess to a bemused share in the popular enthusiasm.
Not beingbemused with love, Bell Mosk was thoroughly practical, and so spoke very much to the point.
The man's wild speech and rude song were unintelligible to his stupid, drink-bemused audience; but the keen brain of the schemer lurking near the door picked up their sense at once.
No, he did not,' contradicted Cargrim, who saw that nothing was to be learned while the man was thusbemused with drink.
Arangbar was diverted by his stories and bemused by his rustic gifts.
A bemused expression unexpectedly illuminated the soldier's face, a smile with no mirth.
He leaned back and surveyed the bemused Dubberley with complete and obvious satisfaction.
But I stuck to my determination to let nothing interfere with duty that day, and I argued with free-thinkers and pump-handled bemused supporters until all was settled and Cash said I might go.
She wanted a nap after each session and even after the nap she went around in a bemused state of mental dizziness.
He sat calm and comfortably on the low sofa with Mrs. Bagley's head on his shoulder, both of them pleasantly bemused by the dancing fireplace and with each other's company.
We have listened too long to the bleatings of professors bemused by the false glamour of a philosophy which the Germans themselves have thrust aside.
The only clear fact in his befogged and bemused mentality was that he was at once "broke" and in this business up to his ears.
Now he was to take his part in the drama at which, in times before, he had merely sat as a bemused spectator.
She mopped up his devotions with an ease that would have been disconcerting if he had not always been bemused by her beauty.
The truth is, I have a little lost my way, and stand bemused at the cross-roads.
Stupidly, bemused with the slowly settling dust of dreams, he stared, incredulous of the company in which he found himself.
Incredulously, I thought of my acquaintance of the Lavender Arms, with his bemused expression and his magnificent brow; and a great doubt and wonder grew up in my mind.
The bemused figure of the Lavender Arms was forgotten.
We make much of external laws, and, like a mother bemused with torpid beer when she overlays her child, we stifle the law of the soul because its crying is such a nuisance.
He does not prevent Tom and Sal from falling in love, but he makes Tom, and especially Sal, less satisfied with the first that comes, less easily bemused with the tenth-rate rubbish of a man or girl.
She put that out of her mind, stroking Mama-Cat and, very gently, each of the kittens before she rose to see a bemused expression on Degas' face.
And it was in that instant, while breathlessly catching each syllable of a broken plea for sympathy and gage of lasting remembrance, that Maseden's bemused faculties saw a means of saving his life.
Then, and not until then, did the coincidence of the vessel's name with that of the constellation occur to his bemused wits.
