They were now perplexed to a marvellous degree, and returned to the lower country impressed with the idea that a water-spout had burst over their heads.
He advised the perplexed widow to "hire a smart lawyer" to look out for her business interests.
The new tone perplexed her, and a puzzled interest mingled with the lofty displeasure of her look.
Through amorous mists he still endeavoured to discern the real Alma; he reflected ceaselessly upon her character; yet, much as she often perplexed him, he never saw reason to suspect her of disingenuousness.
It astonished him that such a man as Cecil Morphew should have discovered his ideal in Henrietta Winter; it perplexed him yet more that Cecil's attachment should have been reciprocated.
The last monosyllable was spoken in a doubtful tone, the speaker being perplexed between respect for the tone and language of the stranger, and contempt for his vagabond attire.
I have been a good deal perplexed as to the character of the persons to whom they were written.
She raised her eyes with a perplexed look, which instantly changed to a bright gleam of recognition, and cordially took his proffered hand.
Meredith, perplexed and astounded, wrote a letter to Morton, directing it to Calcutta, whither the latter was to repair, after voyaging among the East India Islands.
The lad remaining motionless, the little ground squirrel seemed both perplexed and offended, for he continued to squeak and chitter and flit his tail in a desperate effort to make the silent figure stir.
A queer look passed over Granger’s face, and for a few moments he scrutinized Piper in a perplexed manner.
With an air of perplexed dismay the man remained standing at the water’s edge, his eyes fastened on the threatening figure of the boy.
Nor would he offer any explanation, compelling his perplexed and offended friends to remain as content as possible with his promise that he would “reveal all in due time.
He understood Catholics going there; he was perplexed at Protestants.
Reding was perplexed how to answer; that is, he could not with the necessary quickness analyze and put into words the answer which his reason suggested to Willis's rapid interrogatories.
Perplexed as the Countess herself, and possibly more despairing, she could but echo the exclamatory words-- "How indeed!
No doubt you're greatly perplexed at what you've seen and heard since you came up here, with much before.
The mayor and Town Councillors were greatly perplexed what to do, when there entered a strange-looking piper, and offered to charm away all the rats for a thousand guilders.
He will come for you, sweetest Fraulein," said the perplexed Grethel, "so only you will come home!
Nora's perplexed eyes travelled from one to the other.
Miss Hooper sat perplexedand hesitating, staring into the fire.
The conflicting claims and interests of the two Princes greatly distracted and perplexed him.
Never was statesman so cast down; never was statesman so perplexed and bewildered.
He had long been greatly perplexed and embarrassed by the anomalies of his position.
These proposals have perplexed me greatly, and I am lost in speculation.
Bessie saw it and felt sympathetic, and was provoked at the recollection of her foolish conceit in being perplexed by the gentleman's elaborate courtesies to herself.
Mrs. Stokes soon engaged him in easy chat, but Bessie sat by in perplexed rumination, trying to reconcile the existence of that little flaxen-haired boy with her preconceived notions of her bachelor uncle.
Others might be perplexedas to Miss Fairfax's sentiments, but to him they were clear as the day--friendly, but nothing more.
But it would have perplexed her to define what the change she fancied was.
When the parson had finished a rapturous eulogy on this most curious and entertaining work, he drew forth from a little drawer a manuscript lately received from a correspondent, which perplexedhim sadly.
The general, in fact, has arrived at that time of life when the heart and the stomach maintain a kind of balance of power; and when a man is apt to be perplexed in his affections between a fine woman and a truffled turkey.
He was bustling about with the perplexed and anxious air of a man who has the oppressive burthen of promoting other people's merriment upon his mind.
He is very slow at comprehending a joke; and is apt to sit puzzling at it, with a perplexed look, while the rest of the company is in a roar.
Jack is very candid and impartial in his decisions, but he has not a head to carry a long argument, and is very apt to get perplexed and out of patience if there is much pleading.
Poor cousin Holman was utterly perplexed by this unusual frame of mind and temper in her husband; she was not well herself, and was suffering from the extreme and sultry heat, which made her less talkative than usual.
He felt himself as perplexed and astonished as if, on the border of the Sahara, he had come upon a panther like that one imagined by Balzac; or by accident, in some remote jungle of Hindustan, a leopard with wings.
As she smoked, the Marchesa continued with the matter that perplexed her.
It may be imagined that he was glad to meet us and to get our answers to many questions which had long perplexed him, some of which he had never hoped to have solved.
He was evidently puzzled and perplexed by it, and "candidly confessed" his inability to account for it.
In fact, the Emperor had begun to repent already, or, if not to repent, yet to be perplexed with the addition which his action had brought upon him to his many burdens.
How great, how real, was the dread of a disputed succession, appears from an extraordinary expedient which had suggested itself to Campeggio himself, and which he declares that some perplexed politicians had seriously contemplated.
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