We beg that mademoiselle will pardon us the anxiety and perplexity we have caused her, and hope that a time will soon arrive when we may be ourselves.
But he had nearly lost all presence of mind in his perplexity and fear.
In her perplexity she said she had "found" the mirror.
Perplexity was crowding on his mind, shading his countenance.
The last half-hour I have been seeing nothing but perplexityand cross-grained guardians.
As a new vexation to temper my good fortune," he writes to Smith, "I am in much perplexity about fixing the place of my future abode for life.
The execution of the conscription law was a subject of sore perplexity to the administration, and, though President Davis made strenuous exertions to remedy the difficulty, the system continued defective until the end.
The reputation of Mr. Lincoln among his countrymen, for humanity as well as good sense, renders it extremely probable that such would have been his method of avoiding theperplexity which must arise from the capture of Mr. Davis.
As the general gazed in the utmost perplexity the notes of the music vibrated through the air, and the loud tones of Kung-Ming, heard above the highest strains, reached the listening soldiers as they stood to their arms.
At last her lashes lifted, and the perplexity and doubt in her blue eyes stirred him.
She said nothing, for in such a moment words do not come easily, but with the simplest, most submissive, most eloquent gesture in the world she set his perplexity to rest.
In his perplexity he glanced across the room towards the fireplace.
I began in perplexity to think over it, and wasn't at all sure.
I hug myself with delight at her confusion; the irresoluteperplexity in her eyes positively fascinates me.
The day wore wearily away, crowded with doubt, anxiety, and perplexity to the runaways.
Going to sea," answered the head steward, good-naturedly; for he rather enjoyed the perplexity of the crew.
There is a message I would gladly bear him; 'Twould quickly banish all perplexity Thou didst not heed thy faithful friend's advice.
THE LORD Though in perplexity he serves me now, I soon will lead him where more light appears; When buds the sapling, doth the gardener know That flowers and fruit will deck the coming years!
So wonderful Is human nature, and its varied ties Are so involv'd and complicate, that none May hope to keep his inmost spirit pure, And walk without perplexity through life.
Such a childhood, in the bosom of maternal tenderness, was probably passed by Schiller; and his first awaking to the world of strife and perplexity happened in his fourteenth year.
On a first review of the circumstances, we have reason to feel no little perplexity in finding the materials for a life of this transcendent writer so meagre and so few; and amongst them the larger part of doubtful authority.
That he must have looked with trepidation and perplexity upon his wild empire and its "dark foundations," may be supposed.
Most of them seem to be in great perplexity about why we declared war.
Then the group unites, as in the case of mourning, and it is naturally an impression of uneasiness and perplexity which dominates the assembled body.
Beyond the forementioned characteristics, the task of race recognition from observation of the skull is one of great difficulty andperplexity with illusory results.
Puzzle and perplexity are not confined to remarkable cases and judicial errors; for so many people are unskilled in correct observation that it is a matter of common occurrence for two individuals to be mistaken the one for the other.
While he was in a state of perplexity he met a woodman, and asked him where the road was and how he ought to go.
In the midst of their perplexity they suddenly saw some one sitting peacefully in the main roadway just in front, underneath a pine tree, quite unconcerned.
He led the way to the kitchen; the two strangers exchanged a glance of humorous perplexity and followed.
There may be perfect bewilderment and perplexity all round the horizon, but yet your heart can rest in perfect security because He knows, He loves, He leads.
The thought that I should cause you any suffering or increase your perplexity is almost unbearable.
I resolved to bring you to my palace before I told you your happiness; which ought now to be so much the dearer to you, as it has cost you so much perplexity and distress.
In this perplexity the affrighted young man happened to come before a pastry-cook's shop, and went into it to avoid the rabble.
I then should not have been thrown into this perplexity on account of this and thy vile hunch.
Notwithstanding the perplexityand confusion into which he was thrown, he had the precaution to shut his door, for fear any one passing by should observe the accident of which he reckoned himself to be the author.
Bella would have been lost in perplexity if there had been pause enough; but the servant found Mr Rokesmith near at hand, and he almost immediately presented himself.
Then,' suggested Miss Abbey, though with a deeper shade of perplexitythan before, 'you criminate yourself.
Many thought that they ought to avail themselves of the general confusion and the perplexity of the duchess to assume a bolder tone and heap demand upon demand.
Howsoe'er This sad perplexity may be resolved, One of two grievous sins we have committed!
When the regent was in any perplexity these notes were interchanged from hour to hour.
The person thus stigmatized, as he approached the house, turned his face with an expression of wistful perplexity from side to side.
But by degrees the unwonted excitement of perplexity and surprise settled back into the calm serenity of his most gentle mind and temper.
