The worms include many puzzling forms, which have not been alluded to here.
Now comes a puzzling question--Which part of this family group shall we select and call it an "animal"?
So we have the puzzling result in nomenclature, that an "individual" consists of a very large colony of creatures in one place, together with a perfect shoal of creatures quite unlike it, floating miles away from it on the ocean.
Many would go the way of those who had been unable to meet the puzzling curves and drops that had come in by turns.
Badger struck out, in his turn, being apparently unable to solve those puzzling shoots of the cool and smiling master in the box.
Again did Hendrix start in to dazzle the locals with an exhibition of his wonderfully puzzling curves and drops.
Instead of puzzling me with deep questions, and tempting me to set up my private judgment, as I have done too often already, against the opinion of the Church, tell me your story, and test my sympathy rather than my intellect.
One of the most puzzling things in this living out-of-doors on our own place is the reversal of our ordinary viewpoints.
No, simply the clarifying of the thoughts that had been puzzling me.
The near presence of the soulless thing on the bed, which had yielded to him the puzzling note, seemed through the night capable of a malicious and unique activity.
You're certainly puzzling me by what you say, Colin," declared the major, betraying a growing curiosity in voice and manner.
By the way, did you obtain any light on the things that were puzzling you?
Her quick intuition, coupled with a strain of subtlety in her nature and a trace of precocious sophistication that was both puzzling and enchanting, had seemed to bridge the years that lay between them.
Perhaps Lynton expected Walter to offer her something puzzling and so for awhile was at a loss to fathom his sort of pitching.
It was much morepuzzling to find a German naval officer engaged in storing large quantities of rubber tubing in a cave.
It had been puzzling enough to discover, in England, that the Emperor was very anxious to remove the Donovans from the island, and was prepared to adopt all sorts of tortuous ways to get rid of them.
Cameron regarded him critically as he might have a puzzling case.
Nancy would be the same girl, but he'd get to puzzling over her and tagging ideas on her--and to what end, Doris?
But--banish the thoughts of the markets as economic problems, cease puzzling your blessed brains with that eternal problem of the cost-of-living.
Here is a single one of the new puzzling points--the temperance problem.
Or Peter pictured him in the long chair, where during a feverish attack he had lain so often, ruffling up his hair and puzzling his head over problems of Hebrew theology.
The black tie which he wore seemed to accentuate his fairness, and it was a boyish, unheroic figure which leaned against the whiteness of the marble mantelpiece as he began his puzzling tale.
There was a congruous incongruity about her which set many people puzzling to find out her real character.
The rather puzzling exception he explained by saying that he was a Seventh-day Adventist.
The puzzling thing is that you should deny having drunk too much," Brandon resumed.
It's bad for me to keep puzzling over things, and I mean to get them straight.
And here is a much more puzzling condition: the sex of that egg, whose advent is predestined, has to correspond with the space which the mother happens to have found for a cell.
She groped for new ways to teach colored brains and marshal colored thoughts and the result was puzzling both to teacher and student.
He looked at her, curled down so earnestly at her puzzling task, and a pity for the more than motherless child swept over him.
These conclusions she did not pretend to have originated; but she adopted them from reading and conversation, after hesitating for a year before such puzzling contradictions as Bles Alwyn and Harry Cresswell.
The discovery explains at once a score of hitherto puzzling facts as to the distribution of malaria.
When a baby knits his brows he is not puzzling over his political chances or worrying about his immortal soul.
Here was the largest and most striking organ in the body, and it was as puzzling as it was large.
At supper on Sunday evening the veil was lifted for a moment from what had been puzzling Miss Baldwin; but what was revealed only puzzled her more.
What was to be done, and how it was to be done, were very puzzling questions, which she asked herself over and over again, without receiving any satisfactory reply from her own mind.
She proved herself very skilful in puzzling an examining counsel, and there is an old nonsensical story of her having been changed into a weasel to commemorate the various turnings and windings of her prevarications.
It was one of those cases in which two people without well knowing what they are about, go on puzzling each other, though both may be as frank as day.
Sir John, half in fun, half in malice, and with a full determination ofpuzzling the constable.
