Puzzled

Examples

• I was puzzled, because I could not make the glimpses of furniture I saw accord with my knowledge of any of these apartments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I handed it back to Mr. Murthwaite, and owned that this curious specimen of Hindoo correspondence rather puzzled me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I felt satisfied of another thing, from what he said, which it puzzled me to understand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Struck by the significance of his tone, Maurice looked keenly at him, and then turned to Crispin with a puzzled air. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Now you look puzzled; and I will puzzle you further. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She was looking mighty serious, but a little puzzled. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mrs. Yolland has puzzled me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Tarzan was looking at her with an expression of puzzled bewilderment in his eyes as she glanced up at him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Coming from a man who had seen as much of actual politics as Mr. Steffens, it puzzled me a great deal. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A friend of mine had written a very brilliant article on a play which had puzzled New York. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I was puzzled how to answer, but he helped me with a word. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• More puzzled than ever, I retraced my steps to Kensington. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Puzzled by the sudden change in her tone, he mechanically gathered a handful of wood from the basket and tossed it on the fire. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I have the honour to be, GEORGE A little formal, observes the elder brother, refolding it with a puzzled face. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Young Edison waited around the spot for half an hour or more, and then, as it was growing dark, went home puzzled and lonely, but silent as to the occurrence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But she was anxious and puzzled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You are such a perfect stranger in the house, that you are puzzled by my familiar references to the worthy inhabitants. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Sir John was rather puzzled. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• She answered, with a puzzled air, that Robert was at Whinbury. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This had puzzled me for years, but one day I was unexpectedly let into part of the secret. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She would not have been puzzled, had she dared fix on them. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Mr. Thornton at first was puzzled to account for her silence; and then he remembered the lie she had told, and all that was foregone. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• In short, everybody is astonished, and puzzled to guess how he has gone on so long! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The Frenchman had been watching him, and knew that Tarzan was puzzled over the envelope. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Mrs Brangwen turned round with a slightly puzzled, exasperated look. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But when he owned to being puzzled, a comforting doubt crossed my mind whether any great harm had been done after all. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Then, seeing how serious my Lady is, looks puzzled and surprised. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Why, under circumstances that puzzled me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It puzzled you to guess why a garment of handsome materials should be arranged in such scanty folds, and devised after such an obsolete mode. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The handwriting on the direction puzzled me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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