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  • They were bewildered...   (source)
    bewildered = very confused
  • He was bewildered and mad.   (source)
    bewildered = confused
  • Jason turned with a bewildered look on his face and said, "I don't know what you're talking about, Mr. Hamilton."   (source)
  • Then it mumbled in its throaty voice, bewildered to the last, "I - I don't understand,"   (source)
    bewildered = very confused
  • The man looked bewildered and lost, as if the ground had been cut from under his feet.   (source)
    bewildered = confused
  • [Chino stands very still, bewildered by the gun dangling from his hand.]   (source)
  • Nathan turned bewildered eyes on me.   (source)
  • You have to remember that until that point we'd never been beyond the grounds of Hailsham, and we were just bewildered.†   (source)
  • as though checking for tears or leaks, the daughter staring at skydivers who were hurtling towards a nearby pier and pulling up at the last moment and landing at a sprint, the son testing the rubberized jogger-friendly surface beneath his feet with each step, and then the minute ended and they were intercepted and led away, apparently bewildered, or overawed, for they held hands and did not resist or scatter or run.†   (source)
  • The sergeant-cook nodded absent-minded, and bewildered.   (source)
  • Jarvis looked at him, at first bewildered, but then something came to him.   (source)
    bewildered = confused (or perplexed or baffled)
  • This sudden talk of marriage bewildered me, even shocked me I think.   (source)
    bewildered = confused
  • She had set her feet upon that road a spoiled, selfish and untried girl, full of youth, warm of emotion, easily bewildered by life.   (source)
    bewildered = very confused
  • It was like the first time he went to school and was embarrassed and bewildered with so many people around.   (source)
    bewildered = confused
  • He stood up, bewildered.   (source)
  • said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.   (source)
  • In an instant he had reached the extremity of the niche, and finding his progress arrested by the rock, stood stupidly bewildered.   (source)
  • Then I watched as planes sank into them, and I stared, bewildered, at the TV as the unimaginably tall structures swayed, then buckled.†   (source)
  • It reminded her of an unpopular child, forlorn and bewildered, powerless to alter its fate.†   (source)
  • I look around in bewilderment.†   (source)
  • Dr. Javid, who was there when I was brought around, says he will never forget the look of fear and bewilderment on my face.†   (source)
  • All around Lev, the bewildered cops pace with a false determination in their stride, as if they know exactly where to go, only to turn around and pace with the same determination in another direction.†   (source)
  • I was completely bewildered.†   (source)
  • Instead, his innocent mistakes turned out to be pivotal and irreversible, his name became the stuff of tabloid headlines, and his bewildered family was left clutching the shards of a fierce and painful love.†   (source)
  • His eyes lolled about in dazed bewilderment.†   (source)
  • He probably should have brought up his feeling of bewilderment that very evening when the family unit had shared their feelings of the day.†   (source)
  • "I'm all right," I told them, but to tell the truth, I was bewildered at myself.†   (source)
  • Roy stared in bewilderment.†   (source)
  • "Tabitha-Ruth," replied Mrs. Wexler with a bewildered look at Flora Baumbach, who said 'Alice."†   (source)
  • Mama turned bewildered toward Uncle Hammer.†   (source)
  • Endless mothers, carrying endless limp children, their faces splotched with blood; endless bewildered old men.†   (source)
  • Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I. Ahead, the alley crooked to the right.†   (source)
  • IN THE BEGINNING he wandered slowly from one room to the next, picking up objects and looking at them in bewilderment and then putting them back down again.†   (source)
  • Daddy is bewildered and asks what's going on with us, but doesn't push me for an answer.†   (source)
  • Judging from the bewildered looks of store cashiers, gas station attendants, and waiters, my father spoke a version of English not yet shared with the rest of America.†   (source)
  • "You are?" said a bewildered Rory.†   (source)
  • But on the afternoon of the thirtieth of October, an observer—standing in the very spot where our ragged itinerant now stood—would have witnessed a bewildering sight.†   (source)
  • Peter's bewilderment grew as the older man led him to the cafe.†   (source)
  • I asked, completely bewildered.†   (source)
  • The first several weeks of Salva's new life were so bewildering that he was grateful for his studies.†   (source)
  • We lay there in complete bewilderment, unsure what to do next.†   (source)
  • He draws himself into a train car as it passes with bewildering ease and pulls me in after him.†   (source)
  • The lecturing tone and bewildering phrases from a judge I'd never met left me completely confused.†   (source)
  • But all she got was a bewildered, hollow-eyed look.†   (source)
  • Langdon stood beside the sinks, staring in bewilderment at DCPJ cryptographer Sophie Neveu.†   (source)
  • If he'd seemed shocked before, now he looked completely bewildered.†   (source)
  • It feels to Marie-Laure as if they have wound these past four days toward the center of a bewildering maze, and now they are tiptoeing past the pickets of some final interior cell.†   (source)
  • There was a comical bewilderment in his expression.†   (source)
  • The look on her parents' faces was bewilderment.†   (source)
  • Someone had splattered her face with a perfectly thrown ripe tomato, and as the clock expired and the Glendale fans poured onto the court, Stargirl just stood there, her great eyes staring up at us in utter bewilderment through the pulpy red gore.†   (source)
  • A lot of people cried, if not at Pete's particular death, then at the idea of death or the sight of his daughters in their white dresses, looking bewildered and diminished.†   (source)
  • "This is not an inn," she would inform the lost and bewildered travelers, who'd been expecting someone younger to greet them and fetch their luggage.†   (source)
  • The Claremont codes still bewildered me.†   (source)
  • There was no bewilderment, no surprise.†   (source)
  • The sky was turning the color of a fresh bruise as we pulled into my grandfather's subdivision, a bewildering labyrinth of interlocking cul-de-sacs known collectively as Circle Village.†   (source)
  • Her father's decision still bewildered her.†   (source)
  • Instead of snapping back at me, Cal looks bewildered.†   (source)
  • There was a burst of applause, and Reynie and his friends again glanced at one another — more secretly this time with looks of unhappy bewilderment.†   (source)
  • I caught Baz's eye as he stared, bewildered, at the sight of all the pirates fanning out through the entrance lobby.†   (source)
  • The rifle grease on his forehead gives him a bewildered look.†   (source)
  • It was then that they heard a woman calling up the stairs from the floor below, and then she called again, more insistently, from just along the corridor, and this time the twins recognized the voice and a look of sudden bewilderment passed between them.†   (source)
  • The grass was so many different things at once, it was bewildering.†   (source)
  • He spun on his heel, center of a bewildered circle of boys.†   (source)
  • Mercy laughed at John's bewilderment.†   (source)
  • "What's happened to you?" he said, bewildered.†   (source)
  • Cinder couldn't stifle a gasp of bewilderment at the sight of her.†   (source)
  • To Ammu, her twins seemed like a pair of small bewildered frogs engrossed in each other's company, lolloping arm in arm down a highway full of hurtling traffic.†   (source)
  • I asked, bewildered.†   (source)
  • But she looked so bewildered and beautiful that he climbed back on top of her and pushed her all the way down.†   (source)
  • ALBUS looks around, bewildered.†   (source)
  • I remember plunging my hands in the top drawer of her bureau and clawing through a bewilderment of scarves: silks and velvets, Indian embroideries.†   (source)
  • She'd be completely bewildered, and anyway, she'd never be able to change; I'd like to spare her that grief, especially since I know that everything would remain the same.†   (source)
  • Teachers were cautioned that "when [students] are required to study, their bodies should not be exhausted by long confinement, nor their minds bewildered by prolonged application."†   (source)
  • Enrique's bewilderment turns to confusion and then to adolescent anger.†   (source)
  • He'd apparently been shocked when Mom and Dad had me, and now was completely bewildered that they chose to have a second.†   (source)
  • She looks at me, confused, scared, bewildered.†   (source)
  • I'm going to hide out long enough to watch Lance Nicholas Dunne become a worldwide pariah, to watch Nick be arrested, tried, marched off to prison, bewildered in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs.†   (source)
  • Bewilderment and astonishment overwhelmed Eragon.†   (source)
  • The emotions went from outrage to terror to bewilderment to guilt to sorrow and then back again to outrage.†   (source)
  • What's the Number?" he asked, bewildered and delighted at the same time, having never met anyone like Amy Hertz before.†   (source)
  • Dazed and bewildered, Alyss sat up, chest muscles aching from her rib-cage-rattling coughs.†   (source)
  • Bewildered, Meggie watched him fasten the straps.†   (source)
  • Mack was standing there with his mouth indeed open and an expression of bewilderment plastered to his face.†   (source)
  • The bewilderment and anger left his face, and-he stared at me blankly.†   (source)
  • In her blouse and skirt, Mr. Wood grinned up at her, as if enjoying her bewilderment.†   (source)
  • She looked around her in total bewilderment.†   (source)
  • The boy steps out, but with a bewildered look on his face.†   (source)
  • Bewildered, I stood stupidly until Elodin came over and shook my unresponsive hand.†   (source)
  • I was bewildered, and stood a long moment in silence.†   (source)
  • "But we already nearly lost you once," his bewildered father had protested.†   (source)
  • She got up and went back to cooking, while I wandered away, bewildered.†   (source)
  • The students would look at me and I could tell they were shocked, bewildered and slightly amused.†   (source)
  • He looks at me with bewildered awe.†   (source)
  • The sight of Anaander Mianaai within hit Lieutenant Awn like a blow, a vicious spike of fear, surprise, dread, shock, doubt, and bewilderment.†   (source)
  • I curtsied, bewildered at the speed of it all.†   (source)
  • At last, Amsterdam, even bigger than Haarlem, with its bewilderment of strange streets and canals.†   (source)
  • We'd left Georgia at the height of a peach-blossom summer and now stood in a bewildering dry, red fog that seemed like no particular season you could put your finger on.†   (source)
  • Each feeling examined alone was a bewilderment.†   (source)
  • To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable—bewildering, even enigmatic.†   (source)
  • But I was somehow, to my own bewilderment, empty of all regret.†   (source)
  • There's no one in here, she realized, looking around in bewilderment.†   (source)
  • I felt trapped and bewildered.†   (source)
  • And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.†   (source)
  • She gave off an aura of melancholy and bewilderment, a scent of lavender and old clothes.†   (source)
  • Spontaneously, they broke into song, and began dancing as a group, to the bewilderment of their hosts.†   (source)
  • Outside Ford's Theatre, bewildered pedestrians joined the crowd of theater patrons and hovered near the front doors awaiting the president.†   (source)
  • Theresa furrowed her brow, bewilderment making her surroundings surreal.†   (source)
  • The Doctor stared at the sheer lace curtains in bewilderment, he tried to find the street door but lost his way, and in his confusion he knocked into the cage with the perfumed crows.†   (source)
  • Armansky was bewildered and also angry with himself for having so obviously misjudged her.†   (source)
  • That and the magic of Narciso—" I was bewildered by the garden.†   (source)
  • While the tablet still works, he seems less bewildered by the feeling of disorientation.†   (source)
  • Her voice was choked with bewilderment, irritation, rejection.†   (source)
  • The younger children appear bewildered by this litany, but those of us older than six or seven had already heard a version of it several times at the orphanage before we left.†   (source)
  • She was lifting Phoebe, heavy in her arms, and then she paused, bewildered, because her keys were in her purse on the kitchen counter and she couldn't figure out how to open the door while holding Phoebe, who was wheezing harder now.†   (source)
  • He looked focused, if not completely bewildered.†   (source)
  • No wonder we're bewildered, staggered, shattered.†   (source)
  • This is a shock: we all look at one another, completely bewildered.†   (source)
  • The sound of her voice, swift, subdued, and unhappy, had the effect of jolting him out of his own bewilderment.†   (source)
  • It is altogether bewildering.†   (source)
  • Frankly, they were suspicious of this white woman who couldn't speak their language, who kept making bewildering inquiries.†   (source)
  • The passengers' relief turned to bewilderment and embarrassment, for the most godless among them had prayed for divine intervention.†   (source)
  • I pointed backward and looked bewildered.†   (source)
  • He sat up, bewildered, stunned, like an orphan.†   (source)
  • Sergeant Manchester massaged the tightness between his sleepy eyes and looked wearily at the desperate bewilderment that stood in front of him.†   (source)
  • Said they hadn't, and-I never saw a more bewildered man-said, 'Where the devil can Herb be?†   (source)
  • Inside a season, she went from delicate to whopping, and the Duke never glanced in her direction without sad bewilderment clouding his eyes.†   (source)
  • His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering—all at once.†   (source)
  • She wanted the sturdiness close to her, but was irritated by the bewilderment.†   (source)
  • Johnnie had been an expert weaver on the ancient foot-power looms of the mountains; but the strangeness of the new machine, the noise and her surroundings, bewildered her.†   (source)
  • Queenie comes to my feet and stares up at me with a pathetic combination of bewilderment and gratitude.†   (source)
  • Not only were most men unwashed and often unshaven, they were clad in a bewildering variety of this and that, largely whatever they, or others at home, had been able to throw together before they trudged off to war.†   (source)
  • Josh's forehead creased in bewilderment.†   (source)
  • That stare bewildered him; he could not understand it.†   (source)
  • When he saw the bewildered look on my face, he indicated a pile of books of various sizes, some as small as a folded handkerchief and some as large as a sofa pillow.†   (source)
  • It was Captain Black who came with advice to Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren as they pitched about in their bewildering predicament.†   (source)
  • We were twenty miles down the road when somebody said, "Where's that damn dog," and we rushed back, to find Barnabas looking bewildered at the side of the road, where we left him.†   (source)
  • Occasionally he looked up at me, bewildered.†   (source)
  • He was suddenly assailed by a bewildering cacophony of voices.†   (source)
  • The conversation left me more bewildered than before.†   (source)
  • The girl still looked bewildered.†   (source)
  • The groom looked up, bewildered, the tip of a joint on his lip.†   (source)
  • Simeon had badgered her about what the lawyer wanted, what he'd said, but Lettie had been too bewildered and too frightened to try and explain anything.†   (source)
  • Reality might disconcert her, bewilder her, hurt her, but it would not be reality.†   (source)
  • She looks like a distressed kitten, bewildered and hurt.†   (source)
  • What is it?' said Frodo, still shaken and bewildered.†   (source)
  • I first heard about Jesus when the one friend I made there—another Japanese girl—took me to a Baptist Sunday School on the island, where a Caucasian teacher bewildered me with pictures of lambs and donkeys and golden-domed pavilions.†   (source)
  • Blackberry's flood of apparent nonsense only seemed to draw tighter the mesh of danger and bewilderment.†   (source)
  • Aven hesitated slightly before bowing herself, but Jack and Magwich refused to do it at all and watched the scene with bewilderment.†   (source)
  • Bewildered and frightened, he goes to her, kneeling beside the chair, trying to put his arm around her, but she will not permit it.†   (source)
  • Bewildered and numbed, they could not unburden themselves to their civilian counterparts, who could never comprehend through mere words.†   (source)
  • Nelly's eyes finally stopped to focus on the large bowl of blood on the counter in front of Otis, then on his blood-soaked apron, moving up to meet the bewildered expression on his face.†   (source)
  • A cacophony of bewilderment and outrage.†   (source)
  • My foster brother, Shan, rubbing the sleep from his eyes, bewildered, asking when I would return.†   (source)
  • Bemused'is another one, People seem to think it means amused, rather than bewildered or preoccupied.†   (source)
  • Once my father referred to me teasingly as "Old Scarface" and looked perfectly bewildered when I burst into tears.†   (source)
  • The somewhat bewildered remnants of the class, which had dwindled to a third of its size, went on their own across the street for coffee.†   (source)
  • A look of complete bewilderment came over Mrs. Zuckerman's face.†   (source)
  • "Suh?" the farmer said, his brow wrinkling with bewilderment.†   (source)
  • Searching in fear, in bewilderment.†   (source)
  • The whitemen froze, still nervous and bewildered.†   (source)
  • No wonder historian Alfred T. Andreas seemed overwhelmed when he reported: "It [was] common to see ten or a dozen or fifty houses rising at once; but when one looks upon, not a dozen or fifty, but upon ten thousand houses rising and ten times that number of busy workmen coming and going, and listens to the noise of countless saws and hammers and chisels and axes and planes, he is bewildered."†   (source)
  • I felt a sense of awe mixed with bewilderment.†   (source)
  • It was a jolt that left her bewildered.†   (source)
  • "What on earth are you doing here?" asked a bewildered Cesar.†   (source)
  • I glance from face to face, utterly bewildered.†   (source)
  • were happy ones under the care of Sister Federica, whose devotion to a bewildering array of saints did not lessen her duty to cleanliness.†   (source)
  • The horde of faces blurred together into a bewildering mass.†   (source)
  • He had accomplished great feats of perspective and bewildered the eye into believing that a solid ceiling was a row of airy windows on the blue, and in these bright windows he had placed birds struggling in the air.†   (source)
  • Mother glanced up from her prized box in bewilderment, as if she had no idea, even though I was wearing my air force fatigues.†   (source)
  • It would be folly for an individual to seek to do better—to do better than to go on in his own imperfect way, making his mistakes, riding out the rough and bewildering, exciting and beautiful storm of life until the day he dies.†   (source)
  • Into my bewildered silence, she spoke again.†   (source)
  • He peeps through, and observes the dancing couple, reacting with what is obviously a long-standing bewilderment.†   (source)
  • The pattern was a little changed; the incisiveness of alarm had receded, but the bewilderment and distress were still overwhelming.†   (source)
  • Bewildered, Joe lowered his sunglasses and said, "Thanks."†   (source)
  • The young man who'd been lying in the bushes was now sitting up and gazing around in bewilderment.†   (source)
  • He stood there looking bewildered after the third swing, then slowly walked away.†   (source)
  • But then, at the sight of the offending boy, the old man behind me inexplicably exploded, chopping the air with his worn fingers, cursing red-faced like a cheated peasant in our throaty mother tongue until the bewildered child began to cry.†   (source)
  • Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.†   (source)
  • NICK: (A little bewildered) She's twenty-six.†   (source)
  • On several occasions bewildered Confederate troops open fire on one another, thinking they're firing at Yankees.†   (source)
  • Everyone was still stunned, Tony Bracey leaned back in his seat with a bewildered look of both fear and defeat.†   (source)
  • He had never been impulsive, like Hill; there was even at this moment something grave and perplexed about him, a studious bewilderment.†   (source)
  • "They did?" the man asked with bewilderment in his voice.†   (source)
  • He seemed bewildered, more than anything.†   (source)
  • She looked at me with these bewildered eyes and held her hand up to her mouth, her fingertips touching her lips.†   (source)
  • During the elaborate outdoor service, mixed emotions brought waves of tears to my bewildered eyes.†   (source)
  • ROS and GUIL, holding the belts taut, stare at him in some bewilderment.†   (source)
  • As a soldier I would have learned much more about an aggrieved and singularly bewildered species, but by then due to the strangeness of our times, ol' Will McLean, born and bred to be a military man, had decided he would never be a military man.†   (source)
  • But her mother and father would find cities like Rochester and Syracuse too big and bewildering, too noisy.†   (source)
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