Then, with a smile and a nod, I left them, and all in the little crowd smiled and nodded in return, though their faces still betrayed their puzzlement.

I looked at my companion, to see what he thought of the matter; and noted that there was only puzzlement in his face; and then, as I watched his features, an expression of comprehension crept over them, and he nodded his head.

It was alight with excitement; yet between the eyes two deep wrinkles of puzzlement quivered.

Britain ignored all existing organizations of women, and after a year and a half of puzzlement created a separate government department for their mobilization.

For she received this overt notification of the success of his quest without one sign other than a look of dawning puzzlement.

"What are you doing?" asked the marshmallow man in puzzlement.

An odd smile shadowed his lips, an expression half eager, half apprehensive; there was a hint of puzzlement in his scrutiny.

And I made how we should sleep; and put the cloak about the Maid; but surely she did refuse, very piteous, and seeming to have also somewhat of doubt and puzzlement.

And surely, I stoopt and kist her, as she did look so wistful in her little puzzlement; and immediately I removed her trouble very natural, and told that I should stand guard anigh to her, the while that she bathed.

But Opee-Kwan doubted, and brushed his hand across his brow in sore puzzlement.

The Sheriff bowed again, and the great outlaw's face wore such a comic expression of puzzlement that Robin Hood laughed aloud, and completed his great follower's confusion.

From all I could learn, there were eight men concerned in the attempt, and I confess I shook my head in puzzlement why that number should have allowed themselves to be scared off so easily.

" The MS. copy of this poem sent to Coleridge probably lacked the explanatory line, 'Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth,' as another MS., in the possession of the poet's grandson, lacks it; and the line was possibly addedas the late Mr. Dykes Campbell suggested"in deference to S. T. C.'s expression of puzzlement.

And with puzzlement came an inexplicable fear: she had known Marmaduke in all his moods, but never in such an one as he had displayed before her just now.

Master Courage helped him to mount, and he rode away in the direction of the Dover Road, his head bent, his thoughts dwelling in puzzlement and wonder on the strange doings of those whom he still reverently called his betters.

There was a look almost of madness in the hopeless puzzlement of her expression.

What warrant?" queried the worthy squire, who of a truth, was falling from puzzlement to such absolute bewilderment that he felt literally as if his head would burst with the weight of so much mystery and with the knowledge of such dire infamy.

Billy read the notejust a few lines, with a frown of puzzlement.

The Master, not understanding it at all, or being able to analyze sensations so foreign to all his previous thought and experience, cut the Gordian knot of puzzlement by roundly cursing himself, by Allah and the Prophet's beard, as a fool.

You do not accept?" asked the Master, frowning as with puzzlement and displeasure.

But Opee-Kwan doubted, and brushed his hand across his brow in sore puzzlement.

Puzzlement and anxiety appeared to grip me by the throat and to choke me.