Puzzling

Examples

• These few I amused myself by puzzling to make out; and, in particular, I was attracted by the outline of a picture on the wall. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The thundering carriage-and-pair encountered were now likewise recalled, as well as that puzzling signal, the waved handkerchief. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• That's the puzzling part. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The history of life that men have puzzled out and are still puzzling out from them is called the Record of the Rocks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To us some of his difficulties are puzzling only from their simplicity: we do not perceive that the answer to them 'is tumbling out at our feet. Plato. The Republic.
• Yes; though I own you were puzzling at times. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• How difficult, how oppressive, how puzzling seemed my flight! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I passed a very agitated night, I could not refrain from puzzling my poor, confused brain as to what I should write to Ponsonby. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• She fell asleep before she could answer the question, and found it quite as puzzling when she awoke the next morning. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I was still puzzling over it when I heard the door gently close again, and her footsteps coming up the stairs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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