All 9 Uses of
perplex
in
Emma
- Mr. Weston was a great favourite, and there was not a creature in the world to whom she spoke with such unreserve, as to his wife; not any one, to whom she related with such conviction of being listened to and understood, of being always interesting and always intelligible, the little affairs, arrangements, perplexities, and pleasures of her father and herself.†
Chpt 1.13-14
- These days of confinement would have been, but for her private perplexities, remarkably comfortable, as such seclusion exactly suited her brother, whose feelings must always be of great importance to his companions; and he had, besides, so thoroughly cleared off his ill-humour at Randalls, that his amiableness never failed him during the rest of his stay at Hartfield.†
Chpt 1.15-16
- One perplexity, however, arose, which the gentlemen did not disdain.†
Chpt 2.11-12 *
- He had met with them in a little perplexity, which must be laid before Emma.†
Chpt 3.1-2
- —said Emma, still perplexed.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- Her voice was not unsteady; but her mind was in all the perturbation that such a development of self, such a burst of threatening evil, such a confusion of sudden and perplexing emotions, must create.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- — On these subjects, her perplexity and distress were very great—and her mind had to pass again and again through every bitter reproach and sorrowful regret that had ever surrounded it.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- Soon after this Miss Bates came in, and Emma could not help being diverted by the perplexity of her first answer to herself, resulting, she supposed, from doubt of what might be said, and impatience to say every thing.†
Chpt 3.15-16
- But he laughed so heartily at the recollection, that Emma could not help saying, "I do suspect that in the midst of your perplexities at that time, you had very great amusement in tricking us all.†
Chpt 3.17-18
Definition:
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(perplex) to confuse