At last, wearied and sorely puzzled, I turned from it, to view the rest of the strange place on to which I had intruded.

I was utterly puzzled and astonished.

For I had been often sadly puzzled as to what I should do when once I was out of college.

I asked, still hopelessly puzzled.

Considering these facts, Mr. Merrick shrewdly suspected that the dynamite explosion had been the work of the mill hands, yet why it was harmlessly exploded in a field was a factor that puzzled him exceedingly.

" Plainly her words puzzled him.

Cartwright was frankly puzzling.

Really, we unlearned people in the art of war were vastly puzzled as we thought tins whole matter over, and we sometimes doubted whether our superiors were not almost equally bothered with ourselves.

The only part of Montgomery's training which came within the doctor's observation was his diet, and that puzzled him considerably.

Some looked stolid, others depressed, others merely puzzled.

The girl puzzled me strangely.

She pointed a slender, quivering finger to a box which stood, lid thrown open, on a table in the sitting-room, by which the detectives were standing, open-mouthed, and obviously puzzled.

Without this Talent he is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own Blunders, mistakes the Sense of those he would confute, or if he chances to think right, does not know how to convey his Thoughts to another with Clearness and Perspicuity.

There's not a house within a mile, No hand to help them in distress; Old Susan lies a-bed in pain, And sorely puzzled are the twain, 25 For what she ails they cannot guess.

These answers puzzled the old dame mightily.

"If Mademoiselle will only listen," I began, strangely puzzled and singularly contrite.

The Professor was awake and deeply puzzled.

This, too, he replaces, and, infinitely puzzled, makes yet another hopeless trial of the Edmundsbury chalice, and, again baffled, again replaces it, concluding now that the baronet has suspected his designs, and substituted a false stone for the real one.

Mr. Parker had just received a letter by special delivery, and seemed considerably puzzled over it.

Here was a sinister villain distracted between avarice and revenge, and sore puzzled which way to turn.

Reaching the shoulder of the mountain, Kern puzzled anew.

I am compelled, then, to fall back upon those same unreliable, irresponsible rhymesters, and to insist with them that a maid waiting in the springtide for the man she loves is necessarily happy and very rarely puzzles her head over the scientific reason for it.

For a long time he had been secretly puzzled, and had evolved certain ideas of his own because of the movements of the Woongas.

Again, if they mean, that the conjunction sometimes connects word with word, and sometimes, sentence with sentence; this sense they have not expressed, but have severally puzzled their readers by an ungrammatical use of the word "and."

He looked at her with sincerely puzzled eyes.