The Chicago team always was a puzzle to all parties to the race, including itself.

He was mooning about and didn't seem best pleased to see me, but he was quite duly apologetic, said he was puzzling over the tragedy and hoped I didn't mind his trespassing on my property.

So far she was to him something of a puzzle, but a puzzle of the most fascinating kind.

The ardor with which our Milesian element embraces the cause of France furnishes a puzzle for many thoughtful minds; and yet its solution is simple.

"I cannot tell you until I hear your wishes," I said, smiling, and yet puzzled at her attitude.

Each one would have been a puzzle to the other, if the elder of the two had not been Mrs. Kinzer, and the widow had never been very much puzzled in all her life.

I can see that my sister is much puzzled as to what is the matter with the animal; yet it would be madness, even to hint the truth to her.

But though I scrutinized the earth with the greatest care, I could see no signs of anything to show that there had ever been a building erected on the spot, and I grew more puzzled than ever.

The words of these learned men and the writings of the learned Bollandist mentioned above are worthy of consideration, as sometimes priests are puzzled about the truth and accuracy of the incidents recorded in those lessons of the second nocturn.

For a moment he stared half-puzzled at Mr. Lawton's pistol.

The puzzle with six pictures on the sides of cubes is much more difficult than a simple jigsaw.

" "I am puzzled about more things than one in this matter.

And in the end she said in a tone which she managed to make full of challenge: "Which of you is the better man?" They stared at her, all of them puzzled by her change of attitude as by her words.

At Bogota, isn't it?" He looked puzzled for a moment; then his mind worked quickly back to Cynthia's almost forgotten tragedy.

Good Mr. Barton was quite puzzled with him.

I confess, however, I am somewhat puzzled over this document which she has given me.

Scores of experts in jig-saw puzzles on both sides seize every scrap of information and piece them together.

It seems strange that such a custom should ever have arisen, and one is not a little puzzled in endeavouring to guess at the origin of it.

The manager in the ring below stood like one petrified, puzzled beyond all comprehension.

It can never have been a greater puzzle than now, when we are all busily engaged in killing each other.

Can it be that, after all, space and circumstance are but pieces in a puzzle to which the key is lost, so that, playing blindly, we are startled by the click which announces the falling of some corner of the puzzle into place?

Tony was a little shocked at her friend's bluntness, a little puzzled as to what lay behind her arguments.

My dear Amy,How are you getting on, I wonder, with guessing those puzzles from "Wonderland"?

" I thanked him for the interview, and then took my departure, more puzzled by it than I had been by anything for a long time.

It was then that a mediaeval Lord de Genneville, more endowed with muscle than common sense, became during his turbulent existence much embarrassed and hopelessly puzzled through the presentation made to him by his lady of twin-born sons.