He saw as with a rending shock how like the widow of John Charteris was to Anne Willoughby; and unforgotten pulses, very strange and irrational and dear, perplexed him sorely.

Till she came back, however, the great work must remain at a standstill, and Simon had leisure to reflect on his late conversation with Mr. Ryfe, which astonished and perplexed him exceedingly.

He was utterly perplexed where in the city to search for Alice; and with his mental depression came a bodily infirmity and nervousness that made him incapable of effort.

"I trust you won't think me intrusive, gentlemen," he began in his sharp mode of speaking, "but you will understand I am very much upset and horribly perplexed by the terrible fate which has overtaken my poor brother.

The forest seemed to the exhausted Rudolf, almost interminable, and this provoking horn perplexed him sadly.

Jack was deeply perplexed.

He decided to sleep at last, and lay down on a mattress on deck, a man hopelessly perplexed, his last words, when he already seemed asleep, were to ask, with a flourish of despair, "What can one do with ants?...

What immensely perplexed me was a sharp, angry sort of rattle sounding in all quarters, until I discovered that the noise was produced by a little instrument called "the fun of the fair," which was drawn smartly against people's backs.

I do want to be of some use in the world, but I am infinitely perplexed as to the how and the what.

Puckering his eyes, he watched now the land, and now the river, silent, furtive, and keenly perplexed, his head on a swivel, as though he steered by some nightmare chart, or expected some instant and transforming sight.

2. But, in their endeavours to explain the origin and early progress of language, several learned men, among whom is this celebrated lecturer, have needlessly perplexed both themselves and their readers, with sundry questions, assumptions, and reasonings, which are manifestly contrary to what has been made known to us on the best of all authority.

" Minds so liberal in the face of authority, and at the same time attached to revealed and traditional faith, could not but be sometimes painfully perplexed.

You profoundly perplex the mind of Mr. Consul-general Hay.

I often look at her with wonder, her nature is so different from mine,never impulsive, always cool and steady,full of ceaseless activity, yet never hurried, and seemingly never perplexed.

She herself had felt some of the difficulties connected with the subject, and was anxious to reach out a helping hand to others similarly perplexed.

" Smilingly perplexed, she let her eyes rest on his pallid face for a moment, then turned toward the stage again.

Caleb was up stairs in an instant, and found himself in the midst of a strangely-perplexing and distracted scene.

They are given as nearly as possible in their original state, the only modernizations attempted consisting in the alternations of the letters i and j, and u and v, the retention of which" (does Mr. Halliwell mean the letters or the "alternations"?) "would have answered no useful purpose, while it would have unnecessarily perplexed the modern reader.

Joseph is more than commonly perplexed, and the disparity between his own and his wife's age, which the old masters agreed to make considerable, is more considerable than usual.

" "Let me see 'em, good woman," says I. "Yes, sir," answers she, meekly, putting her pillow-slip in my hand, which perplexed me vastly by its weight and bulk.

This opinion was shared by my teachers and schoolfellows; and yet the fact is that many of my schoolfellows who at one time would not have dreamed of competing with me, occupy to-day in France high places in literary, scientific, and political spheres; whereas I, had I to choose a profession, should feel considerably perplexed.

The boy was cruelly perplexed.

As for these duties of our office, these examinations, all this formalityyou yourself, you will remember, touched upon the topic just now, batuchkathese examinations, and so forth, sometimes perplex the magistrate much more than the man under suspicion.

She seemed indeed genuinely perplexed.

a member of the German Foreign Office repeated in a tone which showed that he was honestly perplexed.