The young man saw that she had forgotten both him and his religious perplexities, and he did not wish her to be entirely divested of concern for him at this moment.

If Master Bernard felt a natural gratitude to his young pupil for saving him from an imminent peril, he was in a state of infinite perplexity to know why he should have needed such aid.

And indeed such can receive no possible harm from its perusal, beyond a little temporary perplexity to be dispelled by inquiry; and this only in the case of those who are sufficiently instructed and reflective to perceive the discord in question.

Then she stole another glance at him and saw that he was twisting his moustache in evident perplexity.

He laid a hand upon her knee as she sat above him in sore perplexity.

These were all dreadful prodigies, which filled the people with inexpressible astonishment, and the Roman Empire with an extreme perplexity; and whatever unhappy circumstance followed upon these, was sure to be either caused or predicted by them.

The terrified Juliet was in a sad perplexity at her father's offer.

The years 1532-1534 form a period of considerable chronological perplexity in Michelangelo's life.

" Now did Winfrida the Fair start and therewith clench pink palms and look quick-eyed upon my Beltane, noting in turn his golden hair, his belt of silver and the great sword he bore: and, biting her red lip, she stooped her beauteous head, frowning as one in sudden perplexity.

" "Emancipation was preferred to apprenticeship, because of the inevitable and endless perplexities connected with the latter system.

The owl in the attic and other perplexities.

When he was gone, Ruth looked at William Pressley in silent, troubled perplexity.

An eminent Citizen, who had lived in good Fashion and Credit, was by a Train of Accidents, and by an unavoidable Perplexity in his Affairs, reduced to a low Condition.

" "God," cried Fleck, in astonished perplexity.

He came in to trouble all things with a welcome perplexity, himself no whit troubled for the matter.

Congress will perceive in it ample proofs of the solid foundation on which the financial prosperity of the nation rests, and will do justice to the distinguished ability and successful exertions with which the duties of the Department were executed during a period remarkable for its difficulties and its peculiar perplexities.

Not merely her words, but her manner of speaking, caused this not agreeable perplexity.

While he hesitated in unspeakable perplexity he was informed that an old man, about to expire at the age of an hundred and twenty years, desired to have speech with him.

Ralph scratched his head in amused perplexity.

In the beginning of the breaking up, while Mercy was at her wits' end, with the unwonted perplexities of packing the whole belongings of a house, her mother had tormented her incessantly by bringing to her every few minutes some utterly incongruous and frequently worthless article, and begging her to put it in at once, whatever she might be packing.

If there were a bell I could reach' Lord Almeric stared in the utmost perplexity; and fallen from his high horse, alighted on a kind of dignity.

The action to those who knew her ways denoted mental perplexity and embarrassment.

" Sharpman arose and walked the floor in apparent perplexity, while Craft, resting his hands on his cane, and staring silently at the lawyer, tried to conceive some plan to prevent this golden opportunity from eluding his grasp.

Elizabeth Montier was in a state of dire perplexity just then, and if she had been asked whether she would really choose to effect the change proposed in their way of living, it would have been no easy matter for her to discover her mind.

The special attention of students should be drawn to this wider range of the idea of Virtue amongst the ancients, as otherwise it might easily be a source of secret perplexity.