All 7 Uses of
perplex
in
The Scarlet Letter
- His gifts were emphatically those of a man of business; prompt, acute, clear-minded; with an eye that saw through all perplexities, and a faculty of arrangement that made them vanish as by the waving of an enchanter's wand.†
Chpt Intr.
- When thus perplexed—and cogitating, among other hypotheses, whether the letter might not have been one of those decorations which the white men used to contrive in order to take the eyes of Indians—I happened to place it on my breast.†
Chpt Intr.
- It perplexed, as well as shocked her, by the irreverent inopportuneness of the occasions that brought it into vivid action.†
Chpt 5 *
- With her mind harassed by the terrible perplexity in which the shipmaster's intelligence involved her, she was also subjected to another trial.†
Chpt 22
- The men of rank and dignity, who stood more immediately around the clergyman, were so taken by surprise, and so perplexed as to the purport of what they saw—unable to receive the explanation which most readily presented itself, or to imagine any other—that they remained silent and inactive spectators of the judgement which Providence seemed about to work.†
Chpt 23
- And, as Hester Prynne had no selfish ends, nor lived in any measure for her own profit and enjoyment, people brought all their sorrows and perplexities, and besought her counsel, as one who had herself gone through a mighty trouble.†
Chpt 24
- All around, there were monuments carved with armorial bearings; and on this simple slab of slate—as the curious investigator may still discern, and perplex himself with the purport—there appeared the semblance of an engraved escutcheon.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(perplex) to confuse