1 Hence things which have perplexed you and made the case more obscure, have served to enlighten me and to strengthen my conclusions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 2 "There must be some-thing else," said the perplexed gentleman.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE 3 With a large allowance for difference of tastes, and with all submission to the patricians of Coketown, this seemed so extraordinary a source of interest to take so much trouble about, that it perplexed him.
4 The dog Flossie, standing on guard almost between her master's legs, moved uneasily, eyeing the chair with great suspicion and dislike, and very much perplexed between the three human beings.
5 She had no child to connect her with life and happiness again, no relations to assist in the arrangement of perplexed affairs, no health to make all the rest supportable.
6 After listening under the bank for some minutes to the talk he turned in a perplexed and doubting manner and began to withdraw as silently as he had come.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody 7 "I am thoroughly perplexed," she said candidly.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 2 Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road 8 In fact, I am, of course, he said, altogether perplexed as to her drift.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin 9 Here we may take it that there is a love matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or grieved.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY 10 She did not play cards, and was constantly laughing, which did not at all accord with her pale and perplexed face.
11 Prince Vasili stared at her and at Boris questioningly and perplexed.
12 Pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind.
13 The uninterested and perplexed faces of the marshals showed that they were puzzled as to what Balashev's tone suggested.
14 For some seconds they gazed with frightened eyes at one another's unfamiliar faces and both were perplexed at what they had done and what they were to do next.
15 Berg and the countess looked at her, perplexed and frightened.