1 'Yes, sir,' said the steward, looking in some perplexity, and he withdrew, his boots creaking as he walked.
2 Gradually a crimson flush came faintly out upon her cheeks; but her lips did not smile and her dark eyes had a look of perplexity and some other, as yet undefined, feeling.
3 Simonov, with whom I was left TETE-A-TETE, was in a state of vexation and perplexity, and looked at me queerly.
4 Several times she glanced at me with mournful perplexity.
5 The frightened and wounded expression on her face was followed first by a look of sorrowful perplexity.
6 He looked at Prince Vasili in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of illness.
7 In my perplexity I did not know whose aid and advice to seek.
8 Pierre, who knew she was very stupid, sometimes attended, with a strange feeling of perplexity and fear, her evenings and dinner parties, where politics, poetry, and philosophy were discussed.
9 Berg's proposal was at first received with a perplexity that was not flattering to him.
10 After the first feeling of perplexity aroused in the parents by Berg's proposal, the holiday tone of joyousness usual at such times took possession of the family, but the rejoicing was external and insincere.
11 Suddenly his face assumed a subtle expression, he shrugged his shoulders with an air of perplexity.
12 The latter in Pierre's presence had ceased to be caustic, and his face expressed perplexity as to what Julie's smile might mean.
13 The porter, listening in perplexity to the unfamiliar Polish accent and not realizing that the interpreter was speaking Russian, did not understand what was being said to him and slipped behind the others.
14 Pierre felt, moreover, what the accused always feel at their trial, perplexity as to why these questions were put to him.
15 Little Nicholas cried because his heart was rent by painful perplexity.