All 10 Uses of
bewilder
in
The Mill on the Floss
- She began to read with full confidence in her own powers, but presently, becoming quite bewildered, her face flushed with irritation.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- Maggie looked bewildered for a moment, and Tom enjoyed that moment keenly; but in the next she laughed, clapped her hands together, and said, "Oh, Tom, you've made yourself like Bluebeard at the show."†
Chpt 2.5
- Poor Mrs. Moss herself listened in trembling submission, while Maggie looked with bewildered distress at Tom to see if he showed any signs of understanding this trouble, and caring about poor aunt Moss.†
Chpt 3.3
- They were just the words to lay the most painful hold on his master's bewildered mind.†
Chpt 3.8
- The objects among which her mind had moved complacently were all gone,—all the little hopes and schemes and speculations, all the pleasant little cares about her treasures which had made the world quite comprehensible to her for a quarter of a century, since she had made her first purchase of the sugar-tongs, had been suddenly snatched away from her, and she remained bewildered in this empty life.†
Chpt 4.2
- But the constant presence of her mother's regretful bewilderment was less painful to Maggie than that of her father's sullen, incommunicative depression.†
Chpt 4.2
- She wanted some explanation of this hard, real life,—the unhappy-looking father, seated at the dull breakfast-table; the childish, bewildered mother; the little sordid tasks that filled the hours, or the more oppressive emptiness of weary, joyless leisure; the need of some tender, demonstrative love; the cruel sense that Tom didn't mind what she thought or felt, and that they were no longer playfellows together; the privation of all pleasant things that had come to her more than to…†
Chpt 4.3
- At half-past five o'clock in the morning, when Mrs. Tulliver was already rising, he alarmed her by starting up with a sort of smothered shout, and looking round in a bewildered way at the walls of the bedroom.†
Chpt 5.6
- There was a moment of utter bewilderment before her mind could get disentangled from the confused web of dreams; but soon the whole terrible truth urged itself upon her.†
Chpt 6.14
- She was not bewildered for an instant; she knew it was the flood!†
Chpt 7.5
Definition:
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(bewilder) to confuse someone