All 6 Uses of
perplex
in
The Invisible Man by Wells
- She shivered a little as she closed the door behind her, and her face was eloquent of her surprise and perplexity.†
Chpt 1
- The sounds within indistinct and perplexing.†
Chpt 12
- He stared at it in infinite perplexity.†
Chpt 17
- The last I saw of the chase was a little group of a dozen people perhaps, studying with infinite perplexity a slowly drying footprint that had resulted from a puddle in Tavistock Square, a footprint as isolated and incomprehensible to them as Crusoe's solitary discovery.†
Chpt 21
- I walked from door to window and back, and stood perplexed.†
Chpt 23
- The two men stood on the landing perplexed.
Chpt 27 *perplexed = confused or puzzled
Definition:
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(perplex) to confuse