All 8 Uses of
perplex
in
Gulliver's Travels
- His lordship did so; and I remained alone, under many doubts and perplexities of mind.†
Chpt 1 *
- And although they are dexterous enough upon a piece of paper, in the management of the rule, the pencil, and the divider, yet in the common actions and behaviour of life, I have not seen a more clumsy, awkward, and unhandy people, nor so slow and perplexed in their conceptions upon all other subjects, except those of mathematics and music.†
Chpt 3
- They were under great perplexity about my shoes and stockings, which they felt very often, neighing to each other, and using various gestures, not unlike those of a philosopher, when he would attempt to solve some new and difficult phenomenon.†
Chpt 4
- I happened to wear my gloves, which the master gray observing, seemed perplexed, discovering signs of wonder what I had done to my fore-feet.†
Chpt 4
- He was most perplexed about my clothes, reasoning sometimes with himself, whether they were a part of my body: for I never pulled them off till the family were asleep, and got them on before they waked in the morning.†
Chpt 4
- There was another point, which a little perplexed him at present.†
Chpt 4
- ] My master was yet wholly at a loss to understand what motives could incite this race of lawyers to perplex, disquiet, and weary themselves, and engage in a confederacy of injustice, merely for the sake of injuring their fellow-animals; neither could he comprehend what I meant in saying, they did it for hire.†
Chpt 4
- I observed by his countenance that he was in some perplexity, and at a loss how to begin what he had to speak.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(perplex) to confuse