" The Boy was too flabbergasted to reply, but he was far from convinced.

Flabbergasted and higgledy-piggledy are "colloquial," while roseate and whilom are "literary."

"Of course I was absolutely flabbergasted, but I don't think I showed anything.

the old gentleman said to Pee-wee, but Pee-wee looked all flabbergasted and only shifted from one foot to the other.

Well, I was so flabbergasted that I just couldn't speak and even Pee-wee was struck dumb.

Jiminetty, but wasn't I flabbergasted!

So I went in, all flabbergasted and there was a room with the paper all falling off the walls and no carpet On the floor, but anyway the windows were wide open, that was one good thing.

First I thought it was a ghost, and all the fellows were flabbergasted.

"I can assure you both press and public were literally flabbergasted.

surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare.

Ford is certainly a most astonishing fellow; he quite flabbergasts mehandbooks, review's, and I hear that he has just been writing a 'Life of Velasquez' for the 'Penny Cyclopaedia'!" OULTON HALL, LOWESTOFT, March 13, 1843.

"Well, Conklin was too flabbergasted to budge, and Bard, he leaned over and says to Sally: 'This floor is fairly smooth.

TO ask HENRY VIII, "Were you ever married?") The futility of the question flabbergasted Randle.

Nurse Sarah said she should never forget the night she came, and how she looked, and how utterly flabbergasted everybody was to see hera little slim eighteen-year-old girl with yellow curly hair and the merriest laughing eyes they had ever seen.

Well, maybe he wasn't frightened, and Brighteyes was also frightened, too flabbergasted, you see, to go and fix the pillows in place again, and they didn't either of them know what in the world to do.

Did little sister tell you how flabbergasted I was when I saw her this morning?

To say that this debonair, good-looking young gentleman was flabbergasted would be putting it more than mildly.

It's made to travel!" "Can't be!" said Joe, flabbergasted "It is.

His matter-of-fact coolness flabbergasted me.

Every one sat flabbergasted.

II'm so flabbergasted by all that's happened this afternoon, mum, that I can't get my thoughts straight, mum.

He told Bill afterward that he never felt so flabbergasted in his life.

ROGERS [flabbergasted].

"Ef you'd heard me flabbergast the parson!"

In spite of Aunt Jane's saying that he is a cynical foreigner I like him!" CHAPTER IX Society was absolutely flabbergasted when it read in the Morning Post the announcement of Lord Tancred's engagement!