All 7 Uses of
bewilder
in
The House of Mirth
- Mrs. Peniston's voice shook with anger and bewilderment.†
Chpt 1.11 *
- Old habits, old restraints, the hand of inherited order, plucked back the bewildered mind which passion had jolted from its ruts.†
Chpt 1.13
- She sat up, bewildered by the strangeness of her surroundings; then memory returned, and she looked about her with a shiver.†
Chpt 1.15
- Now indeed Lily was too far adrift in bewilderment to measure the other's words or keep watch on her own.†
Chpt 2.2
- The dinner had been protracted over Mr. Bry's exceptional cigars and a bewildering array of liqueurs, and many of the other tables were empty; but a sufficient number of diners still lingered to give relief to the leave-taking of Mrs. Bry's distinguished guests.†
Chpt 2.3
- Bewildered and indignant, Lily resolved to try the effect of a personal appeal; but she returned from her expedition with a sense of the powerlessness of beauty and charm against the unfeeling processes of the law.†
Chpt 2.4
- She continued to look at him with a deepening bewilderment: her only clear impression resolved itself into a scared sense of his power.†
Chpt 2.7
Definition:
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(bewilder) to confuse someone