Bewildered

Examples

• He looked bewildered. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She looked at me bewildered. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Amy, tell Hannah to get down the black trunk, and Meg, come and help me find my things, for I'm half bewildered. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Poor bewildered statesmen, unused to any notion of change, have seen the national life grow to a monstrous confusion and sprout monstrous evils by the way. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Dallas paused before him, visibly bewildered. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The guide was bewildered --non-plussed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He is incapable of arguing, and is bewildered by Socrates to such a degree that he does not know what he is saying. Plato. The Republic.
• I neither spoke or looked, but sat motionless, bewildered by the multitude of miseries that overcame me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Her eyes were round and wondering, bewildered, her mouth quivered slightly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Amelia was bewildered by his phrases, but thought him a prodigy of learning. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I was so bewildered that Miss Donny thought the cold had been too severe for me and lent me her smelling-bottle. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The child looked bewildered, but grinned as usual. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It bewildered me, and under its influence I continued at heart to hate my trade and to be ashamed of home. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• As for me, my sense of propriety was completely bewildered. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• For four hours Dorothea lay in this conflict, till she felt ill and bewildered, unable to resolve, praying mutely. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But I was too much bewildered between breathless curiosity and surprise, to be sure of it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Her heart was fluttering now, beating like a bewildered bird. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I was too bewildered--too conscious also of a vague sense of something like self-reproach--to speak to my strange companion for some minutes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• For I really had not been myself since the receipt of the letter; it had so bewildered me, ensuing on the hurry of the morning. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• She did not weep again, but laughed hysterically, and trembled and clung to her friend as if she was a little bewildered by the sudden news. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• No, no; I mean the others,' said the bewildered Winkle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Miss Crawley said, more bewildered than ever. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Your language is enigmatical, sir: but though I am bewildered, I am certainly not afraid. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• For a week or two, Jo behaved so queerly that her sisters were quite bewildered. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Ursula was troubled and bewildered, they were both oblivious of everything but their own immersion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Meg ran upstairs and soon came back again, looking relieved but rather bewildered, and a little ashamed. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He seemed bewildered and amazed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The bewildered butler gazed from them towards Oliver, and from Oliver towards Mr. Losberne, with a most ludicrous mixture of fear and perplexity. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Little Dorrit, left to herself, and knocked against by somebody every moment, was quite bewildered, when she heard her sister's voice. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She knew he intended it as such, and it bewildered her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Edited by Janet