It deals | | skilfully, sensibly, and delicately with the perplexities of | | early married life, as connected with the holy duties of | | Maternity, giving information which women must have, either | | in conversation with physicians, or from such a source as | | thisevidently the preferable mode of learning, for a | | delicate and sensitive woman.

" The expression of surprise and perplexity in her face, though half pathetic, seemed so comical that I with difficulty suppressed a laugh, because for her it was evidently no laughing matter.

Why, Jackson would turn in his grave if a son of John Sprague were not the first to take up arms when the Union that he loved, as he loved his life, was in peril!" Mrs. Sprague listened with woe-begone perplexity to these sounding periods, conscious only that her darling, her adored scapegrace, had suddenly turned serious, and was using the weapons she had so often employed to justify his conduct.

Oh, yes, the older we grow, the more we find that the great majority have the same feelings and perplexities as ourselves, although some may not understand their thought clearly enough to put it into words.

This information explained away much of Nogam's perplexity on one score.

Mr. Evans was under the impression that the inspector's approval referred chiefly to the part he had played as a husband in talking over his perplexity with his wife, rather than the part he had played as a man in revealing that Hill had lied in his evidence.

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

She did not see the girl as disturbed by doubts and looked in perplexity for a guiding light.

We were at that time often in perplexity about a country home for the summer and autumn, to which we could send them before we ourselves could leave London....

And still the emigrant princes were adding to her perplexity by their perverseness.

When Colonel Oswald ordered them to "present arms" from a "place rest" there was more perplexity than merriment, and the admiring crowd saw nothing peculiar in one company snatching up bayonets to present while others remained perfectly still.

In such an instant does the return of a person dissipate all the weight of imaginary perplexity from distance of time and space!

And it was a young girl harassed with perplexities like these, whom he had permitted in his stead to beard the lioness.

Egremont's speech in parliament on the presentation of the national petition created some perplexity among his aristocratic relatives and acquaintances.

He dreamed constantly either of Amanda's mother, or of Julietsometimes of both together, and of endless perplexity between them.

I believe he hovered through long hesitations about the fields of the Hickleybrow glebe, and finally, when that squealing began, took the line of least resistance out of his perplexities into the Incognito.

But as all such are usually burdened with many cares and perplexities during the first weeks or months in making a new home, the only way to reach the desired result seems to be through the vigilant maintenance of pastoral visiting.

What with the sin I find within me, and the darkness and error, disputes and perplexities around me, I well-nigh despair.

On the whole, I settled into an amiable state of mind; my perplexity over the shot of the night before was passing away under the benign influences of blue sky and warm sunshine.

So wonderful Is human nature, and its varied ties Are so involv'd and complicate, that none May hope to keep his inmost spirit pure, And walk without perplexity through life.