All 15 Uses of
perplex
in
The Prince and The Pauper
- Full-grown people brought their perplexities to Tom for solution, and were often astonished at the wit and wisdom of his decisions.†
Chpt 2perplexities = things that confuse
- that upon occasions of state, whensoever any matter shall perplex him as to the thing he should do or the utterance he should make, he shall show nought of unrest to the curious that look on, but take advice in that matter of the Lord Hertford, or my humble self, which are commanded of the King to be upon this service and close at call, till this commandment be dissolved.†
Chpt 6
- None smiled; but all were sore perplexed, and looked one to the other in deep tribulation for counsel.†
Chpt 7perplexed = confused or puzzled
- Hendon was wholly perplexed.†
Chpt 12
- The little King observed his perplexity, and dissipated it with a word.†
Chpt 13perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- So he stroked his brow perplexedly a moment or two, and presently said— "Now I seem to remember thee somewhat—but my wit is clogged and dim with suffering—"†
Chpt 14
- By asking questions, he was enabled to track them part of the way through Southwark; then all traces ceased, and he was perplexed as to how to proceed.†
Chpt 17perplexed = confused or puzzled
- The children looked at each other—then at him—then at each other again —wonderingly, perplexedly; then one said— "Didst hear him, Margery?†
Chpt 19
- "I do begin to believe thee," said Hendon, with a perplexing mixture of mockery and half-conviction in his tone; "but tarry thou here a moment whilst I run and ask his worship—for nathless, he being a man experienced in law, in jests, in—" He was moving away, still talking; the constable hesitated, fidgeted, spat out an oath or two, then cried out— "Hold, hold, good sir—prithee wait a little—the judge!†
Chpt 24perplexing = confusing due to complexity
- It was a perplexing puzzle,
Chpt 27 *
- The boy's musings profited him nothing; the more he tried to unriddle the mystery the more perplexed he became, the more his head ached, and the worse he slept.†
Chpt 27perplexed = confused or puzzled
- The Lord Protector reflected a moment or two in perplexity, then he said, with grave respectfulness— "By your favour, sir, I desire to ask certain questions which—"†
Chpt 32perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- The Lord Protector was perplexed in the last degree.†
Chpt 32perplexed = confused or puzzled
- Never was a company of people so perplexed, so interested, and so stupefied, before.†
Chpt 32
- He drifted here and there amongst the multitudes that were massed in the vicinity for a weary long time, baffled and perplexed, and finally wandered off, thinking, and trying to contrive some way to better his plan of campaign.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
to confuse