But he had avoided doing so, living in the dizzy bewilderment of his decision, fancying that he had lopped off all human ties and feelings with a voluntary hatchet-stroke.
And you can picture his bewilderment amidst those four women, terrible women ever busy with finery, receiving and paying visits, and running after marriageable men who flee away.
There is much stir without any progress, all the wild bewilderment which precedes great catastrophes.
Pierre's bewilderment was increasing, and, irritated by the impassibility of Santobono, he addressed him direct.
His intellect desires to make its forms, not to have them imposed upon it by mere ocular experience, since ocular experience for him is full of the tyrannous bewilderment of actual passion.
But in making forms he escapes from that bewilderment and shows us matter utterly subject to mind.
He is cold, himself, towards these passions, for to him they are only a part of the bewilderment of actual experience.
Sonia; and a faint bewilderment mingled with her grief.
The eyes and mouths of Bonavent and Dieusy opened wide; and they stared at him blankly, in utter bewilderment and wonder.
No advancement was ever more rapid, no exaltation more complete, no bewilderment more teachable.
One evening, when I put in my hand to take her out, I discovered to my bewilderment that she was not alone.
There was the continuous roar of rapid motion in his ears, a faint, dizzy bewilderment in his head.
If there were no senior boys, no example, and no convention, the first surprise of charmed bewilderment would endure.
By the time he has recovered from his bewilderment and is preparing to exert his authority his year of office is at an end.
He looked at her with that bewilderment on his face, and said, "I find myself strange, strange.
But before he could reach it, the dog walked to the locked door and simply vanished or melted through the panels, leaving Archer in a state of bewilderment hard to describe.
But Eva's words this evening had startled and perplexed him, and his bewilderment was touched with distrust.
She was scolded as usual, her ankle was dressed, she was put to bed, and sank into the sweet bewilderment of her physical pain and her inward joy.
Rosa was left alone in the street, and looked in bewilderment at the door by which he had just gone in.
Melchior raised his head with an air of calm bewilderment which made the children roar with laughter.
In his bewilderment he reached out from bed and knocked on the mahogany slats of the door.
Doors banged, and when they opened, brief, broken sounds penetrated from the cabins, evidence of the bewilderment and alarm of their tenants.
He recoiled, and stood staring, a ghastly image of bewilderment and consternation.
When Cuff had entered with the portmanteaus, Williams, seeing but three horses without, closed the door, locked it, and looked with inquiry and bewilderment at Elizabeth.
She seemed stronger now, and in a sudden bewilderment the man released her and she stood before him pale but no longer inert.
Then with all its complicated features of phenomena, thebewilderment of the situation burst on her, and she struggled to her feet, reeling under the assaults of dizziness and weakness and wonderment.
He could only reëcho her words in bewilderment and distress.
She felt a sudden and most unexpected bewilderment sweep over her as she looked about.
There is a vagueness of mind and a senilebewilderment manifested in this poem, which is indeed remarkable.
It is certainly remarkable (as an indication of the pleasure the multitude take in voluntarily perplexing themselves), how eagerly they enter into all sorts of contrivances which conduce to bewilderment and doubt.
Her eyes widened and she looked up into his face so that the pitiful bewilderment in hers was revealed to him.
His glare of annoyance changed to bewilderment at the sight of her, and he said: "Rose!
So the sight of Jimmy Wallace had something the effect that a sudden awakening has on a somnambulist--bewilderment at first, and after that a sort of panic.
He looked about him in a sort of dazed bewilderment when she disengaged her hand and stopped, at last, at the corner of the delicatessen shop, beside the entrance to her little tunnel.
Finally he straightened up, a look of supreme bewilderment on his face.
Then a look of combined bewilderment and delight came on his face.
Aletta, from where she stood, could see the stranger, and a perfect maze of bewilderment flitted across her countenance as she gazed at him.
Eagerly he picked it up--then, as he mastered the contents, a look of the blankest dismay and bewilderment came over his features.
He stared at the sheet of paper, and his look of bewilderment grew blanker and blanker.
As Tony made no answer, she sat up, whereupon her head hit the roof, and it opened like the lid of a box, and to her bewilderment she saw all around her the Kensington Gardens lying deep in snow.
He sat down in one of the exceedingly easy leather chairs and gazed in bewilderment around the room.
It has always puzzled me how there came to be so much bewilderment and misunderstanding and miserable mutual slander about it.
Vilest of all, they actually quote the bewilderment produced among the poor by their first blunder as a reason for allowing them to blunder again.
A low cry of bewilderment greeted this announcement.
Some time later the lieutenant, slipping down the ladder, found Lanyard studying with a convincing aspect of childlike bewilderment the complicated combinations of machinery which crowded the central operating compartment.
The din increased, and in great bewilderment of mind he began to seek for its cause.
Know that a great bewilderment has overtaken me, so that I discern no more the things that are not from the things that are.
O my master, a bewilderment hath overtaken me," said Abdulla, "so that I forget all things and know not the day from the night.
If Sally's bewilderment was only the deeper for this information, she was sensible enough to hold her tongue.
Sally stared in a state of dumb bewilderment that eclipsed all she had experienced before.
He removed it a couple of minutes later, to stare in bewilderment at the unwonted behaviour of the dog, which came up to the captain and affectionately licked his hands.
Hezekiah changed ears, speaking at first slowly and awkwardly, but becoming more fluent as he warmed with his subject; while the expression of his listener's face gradually changed from incredulous bewilderment to one of uncontrollable mirth.
And this time it had come so near-- But that bewilderment of the senses lasted only for a moment.
And then amid his bewilderment and breathless exultation a horrid fancy shot across his brain.
He could not tell; his brain was in a bewilderment of anxiety and unreasoning misery; and this grew worse, indeed, as the slow minutes went by, and there was no sign of the two figures for whom he was so eagerly watching.
And even now his cup of bliss and bewilderment was not yet full, on this marvellous night.
