Joe queried, glancing in perplexity from the picture to 'Frisco Kid's face. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the "Dazzler"] Reference
(Sukhal) but I am in perplexity, and know not whom to worship. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
If I may quote what I said in perplexity a couple of years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Election 2004] Reference
Judah in perplexity asks, How long is this state of things to continue?. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
When the guy shook his head, maybe he was shaking his head in perplexity at HIMSELF. From Wordnik.com. [Normal] Reference
The only thing for me to do in a perplexity is to go ahead, and learn by making mistakes. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life] Reference
Growth, some of the economists are conceding in perplexity, has been "decoupled" from widely shared prosperity. From Wordnik.com. [The booming Bush economy?] Reference
Overwhelmed in perplexity and fear, he yet found the common and legitimate channels of communication with Heaven shut against him. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
I may be sleeping on my post again? said Traverse in perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Hand] Reference
Over the coffee-pot which she has holding, Sarah stared at her in perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [The Miller of Old Church] Reference
Her tone, not her words, checked his advance, and he stood staring at her in perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [The Miller of Old Church] Reference
But no – the second try succeeded no better than the first – and the children looked at each other in perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance] Reference
I took the Commodore's letter from my handbag, to assure myself I had not been dream - ing, and reread it in perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend] Reference
Onate was plainly puzzled at the summons to attend the governor, and mixed with his perplexity was a very evident anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [Bucky O'Connor] Reference
He revels in the mental attitude of hopeless perplexity, which is simply unendurable to the commonplace and matter-of-fact intellects. From Wordnik.com. [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference
A Congressional committee, or to individual witnesses, the perplexity is the same. From Wordnik.com. [The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement] Reference
A kind of perplexity in the face of so much that was incomprehensible came over her. From Wordnik.com. [Bertha Garlan] Reference
"Can anything puzzle one more?" she said: "unless it were the perplexity which is hovering over my soul.". From Wordnik.com. [Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century] Reference
I can see that, she said, belying her perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [After the Badlands] Reference
He withdrew to his cave, in great perplexity and distress. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
Their perplexity at her ideas both troubled and pleased her. From Wordnik.com. [A Theology of Anorexia] Reference
It is an anti-marketing move that is often met with perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [David Shasha: Natalie Merchant and American Radical Traditionalism] Reference
There was no trace of sorrow in it, only the look of perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
But his suggestions threw her into a dreadful state of perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
To whom should he go in times of spiritual darkness and perplexity?. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
A sign of trouble and perplexity, sometimes illness and bereavement. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
This plan would not only bridge over the present perplexity, but it would change his whole life. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
She not only gave good counsel to the young workers, but prayed with them in times of perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust will remain: so will the perplexity of a man in his thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
I learn from the wisdom of the snow, the servant of the sky, the defender against the imps of perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [Garden Light] Reference
Swallowing our perplexity, we drove out to the Labrot & Graham Distillery, home to our favorite Woodford Reserve. From Wordnik.com. [Letter From America: Bourbon Country] Reference
As the bone-chilling cold seeps through his blue wool uniform, Batten asks in mock perplexity, "Do I do this for fun?". From Wordnik.com. [Daughter Of The Revolution ?] Reference
Pat looked up from his dishwashing sympathetically, for there was perplexity in the kindly tone and on the face no longer young. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
Sydney was standing by the window, with a look of perplexity upon his face which, under any other circumstances, would have been comical. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
"No, thank you," replied Dave in a vague, bothered way that made his companion and chum, Hiram Dobbs, study his face with some perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
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