All 50 Uses of
bewilder
in
Gone with the Wind
- There were pain and bewilderment in her face, the bewilderment of a pampered child who has always had her own way for the asking and who now, for the first time, was in contact with the unpleasantness of life.†
Chpt 1.2
- There were pain and bewilderment in her face, the bewilderment of a pampered child who has always had her own way for the asking and who now, for the first time, was in contact with the unpleasantness of life.†
Chpt 1.2
- Some of the cold sense of bewilderment and disaster that had weighted her down since the Tarleton boys told her their gossip was pushed into the background of her mind, and in its place crept the fever that had possessed her for two years.†
Chpt 1.2
- It was the threat of the convent that finally won the assent of bewildered and heartstricken Pierre Robillard.†
Chpt 1.3
- "Not meaning to change the subject, Ma'm," broke in Gerald hurriedly, for he had noticed Carreen's bewildered look and the avid curiosity on Suellen's face and feared lest they might ask Ellen embarrassing questions which would reveal how inadequate a chaperon he was.†
Chpt 1.5
- However, remembering her plan, Scarlett smothered her contempt and cast such a flashing smile of greeting at him that he stopped short, his arm outheld to Suellen and goggled at Scarlett in pleased bewilderment.†
Chpt 1.6
- All she could think of was that she loved him—everything about him, from the proud lift of his gold head to his slender dark boots, loved his laughter even when it mystified her, loved his bewildering silences.†
Chpt 1.6
- Afterward she remembered, as from a dream, the hundreds of candles flaring on the walls, her mother's face, loving, a little bewildered, her lips moving in a silent prayer for her daughter's happiness, Gerald flushed with brandy and pride that his daughter was marrying both money, a fine name and an old one—and Ashley, standing at the bottom of the steps with Melanie's arm through his.†
Chpt 1.7
- It was all so mixed up in her mind and her mind was so tired, so bewildered.†
Chpt 1.7
- She did not tell them that it was utter boredom, bewilderment at actually being a mother and, most of all, the absence of Ashley that made her look so woebegone.†
Chpt 1.7
- It was all very bewildering.†
Chpt 1.7
- The idea of appearing publicly at a social gathering while in mourning was so unheard of she was bewildered.†
Chpt 2.9
- It bewildered and depressed her.†
Chpt 2.9
- Scarlett, bewildered, picked up the single sheet and saw written in a black, bold hand: "The Confederacy may need the lifeblood of its men but not yet does it demand the heart's blood of its women.†
Chpt 2.10
- It was empty and he looked at it in forlorn bewilderment.†
Chpt 2.10
- It's almost like I was in love with him!" she thought, bewildered.†
Chpt 2.12
- It was his remarks about the Confederacy that made Atlanta look at him first in bewilderment, then coolly and then with hot rage.†
Chpt 2.12
- It was very bewildering.†
Chpt 2.12
- When she saw his eyes falter and drop before the long, troubled gaze of his father, a faint worry and bewilderment rose in her as to what was hidden in Ashley's heart.†
Chpt 2.15
- But, as they sat at the table, Scarlett silent and gloomy, Pitty bewildered and Melanie miserable, a telegram came.†
Chpt 2.16
- "Oh, all right, I promise," said Scarlett, looking down at her in bewilderment.†
Chpt 3.20
- His soft brown eyes followed her every movement, large, round as dollars, a childish bewilderment in them as though her own scarce-hidden fears had been communicated to him.†
Chpt 3.21
- For a moment she stared at him bewildered, dropping her skirts in dismay.†
Chpt 3.21
- They were naked and there was anger and something like bewilderment in them.†
Chpt 3.23
- He stepped abruptly down from the wagon and, as she watched him, stunned with bewilderment, he came around to her side of the wagon.†
Chpt 3.23
- A warm tide of feeling, bewildering, frightening, swept over her, carrying out of her mind the time and place and circumstances.†
Chpt 3.23
- "Slatterys?" questioned Scarlett, bewildered.†
Chpt 3.24
- "But I thought Atlanta burned the night I left," cried Scarlett, bewildered.†
Chpt 3.28
- It was all very bewildering to Scarlett who was still trying to grasp the idea that Cathleen Calvert was going to marry an overseer—Cathleen, daughter of a rich planter, Cathleen who, next to Scarlett, had had more beaux than any girl in the County.†
Chpt 3.29
- "But, Ashley," she began, floundering in a quagmire of bewilderment, "if you're afraid we'll starve, why—why— Oh, Ashley, we'll manage somehow!†
Chpt 4.31
- She had set her feet upon that road a spoiled, selfish and untried girl, full of youth, warm of emotion, easily bewildered by life.
Chpt 4.32 *bewildered = very confused
- When she made feeble swimming motions to come back to consciousness, she was tired to her bones, weak, bewildered.†
Chpt 4.34
- He sank back against the seat aghast, indignation struggling with bewilderment.†
Chpt 4.35
- She peered quickly at Frank and, when she saw who it was, her face changed—pleasure, bewilderment and something akin to guilt spreading over it.†
Chpt 4.35
- Tomorrow she would wonder if she had made any impression on Frank's hurt and bewildered heart.†
Chpt 4.35
- His heart was sore and bewildered at Suellen's conduct and his vanity, the shy, touchy vanity of a middle-aged bachelor who knows himself to be unattractive to women, was deeply wounded.†
Chpt 4.36
- Frank gave her the three hundred dollars, bewildered by her sweet urgency, reluctant at first, because it meant the end of his hope of buying the sawmill immediately.†
Chpt 4.36
- He knew he was no great catch for a woman half his age and pretty and smart to boot, but Frank was a gentleman and he kept his bewilderment to himself.†
Chpt 4.36
- Aged country darkies, deserted by their children, bewildered and panic stricken in the bustling town, sat on the curbs and cried to the ladies who passed: "Mistis, please Ma'm, write mah old Marster down in Fayette County dat Ah's up hyah.†
Chpt 4.37
- He had been a dashing and resourceful officer during the war, but two severe wounds and four years of fighting seemed to have drained him of all his resourcefulness, leaving him to face the rigors of peace as bewildered as a child.†
Chpt 4.38
- "But you said you thought it would be a successful match!" cried Scarlett bewildered.†
Chpt 4.40
- It was as if Atlanta society, scattered and wrecked by war, depleted by death, bewildered by change, had found in her an unyielding nucleus about which it could re-form.†
Chpt 4.41
- She had not known what he meant then but now bewildered comprehension was coming to her and with it a sick, weary feeling.†
Chpt 4.43
- Scarlett and Pitty, startled and bewildered, looked at each other in wonderment and, like a lean old cat, India streaked across the room to Melanie's side.†
Chpt 4.45
- However, Rhett seemed in perfect command of the bewildering situation and that was a small comfort.†
Chpt 4.45
- Wrapped in her cloak, Melanie went bewilderedly down her front walk behind a strange negro coachman who had summoned her mysteriously to a closed carriage waiting in front of the house.†
Chpt 4.46
- He abruptly started off across the room and she followed him, bewildered, to the closed doors.†
Chpt 4.47
- Scarlett was so bewildered and infuriated at these slights that the party was utterly ruined for her.†
Chpt 5.49
- And Melanie, bewildered, broken hearted but still loyal, did not try to repair it.†
Chpt 5.49
- Scarlett, hating the bright hard blue they wore, enjoyed snubbing them all the more because it so bewildered them.†
Chpt 5.49
Definition:
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(bewilder) to confuse someone