All 11 Uses of
perplex
in
The American
- "A little, my daughter, a little?" said M. Nioche perplexed.†
Chpt 1
- Newman looked at the young girl in some perplexity.†
Chpt 4
- It was not an excitement or a perplexity; it was a placid, fathomless sense of diversion.†
Chpt 5
- And yet poor Babcock liked him, and remembered that even if he was sometimes perplexing and painful, this was not a reason for giving him up.†
Chpt 5
- But I was so perplexed.†
Chpt 5
- Believe me your sincere friend and well-wisher, BENJAMIN BABCOCK P. S. I am greatly perplexed by Luini.†
Chpt 5
- The Count Valentin looked at our hero from head to foot with his peculiar smile, in which impudence and urbanity seemed perplexingly commingled.†
Chpt 6 *
- M. de Bellegarde stared, with a look of unresentful perplexity.†
Chpt 7
- Bellegarde wore a look of mingled perplexity, sympathy, and amusement.†
Chpt 8
- The expression of pain and embarrassment had passed out of her face, and it was illuminated with something which, this time at least, Newman need not have been perplexed whether to attribute to habit or to intention, to art or to nature.†
Chpt 9
- Then she went on to Madame de Cintre's apartment; Newman, perplexed and alarmed, followed her rapidly.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(perplex) to confuse