All 8 Uses of
bewilder
in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- He moved to the table and sat down, feeling the most bewildering panic of his life, a need to touch things, the table and chairs and the walls of the room, to make certain that the room existed and that he was in the room.†
Chpt 1.1
- He wanted to be with these boys in the street, heedless and thoughtless, wearing out his treacherous and bewildering body.†
Chpt 1.1
- And even though he was certain that they could not be speaking of the same things? for them, surely, she would be angry and no longer proud of him? this perception on her part and this avowal of her love for him lent to John's bewilderment a reality that terrified and a dignity that consoled him.†
Chpt 1.1
- He stood, stupid with bewilderment and grief, a few inches from the bed.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- The Lord had given her what she said she wanted, as was often, she had found, His bewildering method of answering prayer.†
Chpt 2.1
- And when in genuine bewilderment he stared at her, head to one side, the faintest of smiles on his face, something began to yield in her, something she fought, standing up and snarling at him in a lowered voice so that the visitor might not hear: "I wish you'd tell me just how you think we's going to live all week on a turkey and five pounds of coffee?"†
Chpt 2.1
- She knew now of what it was that she had so silently and so early accused her aunt: it was of tearing a bewildered child away from the arms of the father she loved.†
Chpt 2.3
- And he began to scream again in his great, bewildered terror, and felt himself, indeed, begin to move? not upward, toward the light, but down again, a sickness in his bowels, a tightening in his loin-strings; he felt himself turning, again and again, across the dusty floor, as though God's toe had touched him lightly.†
Chpt 3.1
Definition:
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(bewilder) to confuse someone