Both Uses
perplex
in
Arrowsmith
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- They smile to me, but they whisper— I will show Holabird—always he plot against me and try to win over Pearl Robbins, but she is a good girl, she knows what I am doing, but—" He looked perplexed; he peered at Martin as though he did not quite recognize him, and begged: "Martin, I grow old—not in years—it is a lie I am over seventy— but I have my worries.†
Chpt 32perplexed = confused or puzzled
- Martin was perplexed by their first caller.†
Chpt 33 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(perplex) to confuse
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)