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The bewildered and terrified freedmen know not what to do — to leave is death ; to remain is to suffer the increased burden imposed upon them by the cruel taskmaster, whose only interest is their labor, wrung from them by every device an inhuman ingenuity can devise ; hence the lash and murder is resorted to intimidate those whom fear of an awful death alone cause to remain, while patrols, Negro dogs and spies, disguised as Yankees, keep constant guard over these unfortunate people.
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When Srinivasa hurried home, anxious to know if the nose ring was hers, he was bewildered seeing her wear the same one!
After seeing Sylvester and Big Man communicating, James shuts them up calling them " Chuck and Rufus ", which confuses Sylvester, who demands to know how James knew of them, though James acts bewildered to Sylvester's question.
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Clark Kent, on the other hand, has no idea what he is going to do with his life while bewildered by his powers, and his uncertainty as to why he was sent to Earth.
She is embarrassed and bewildered by what has happened to him and desperately wants her ordinary life back.
The bewildered lawyers wondered what he had been writing down, since he had obviously made up his mind before closing arguments ; once Sifton had left the courtroom, they found their answer in the form of page after page covered with the judge's signature.
Michael green was left " bewildered " saying " We Are surprised at the IBA Decision, I'm absolutely certain it would not have been a major change to Thames, We have always suggested that we would make absolutely sure that the company would continue to be what it is at this moment in time ".
Buffy is so bewildered by the paramedic telling her that Joyce is dead that she can only focus on his mouth in an attempt to understand what he is saying.
Stunned, bewildered, and bemused, they tell Akio's mother what they have seen, but she dismisses their story as childish nonsense.
When paramedics arrived, bewildered audience members began leaving, still unsure of what they had witnessed.
The real problems, however, were off the pitch, where the bewildered scorers and scoreboard operators lost track of what was happening and at one point resorted to consulting with spectators to try to resolve the chaos.
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" The boy is bewildered, but Shipwreck follows up with his next question ; " Johnny, do you play baseball?
" A month later Darwin emphasised that he was bewildered by the theological aspects and " had no intention to write atheistically, but could not see, as plainly as others do, & as I sh < sup > d </ sup > wish to do, evidence of design & beneficence on all sides of us.
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The reporter realizes this bewildered, harmless little man was railroaded — just to help the crooked mayor and sheriff pick up enough black votes to win re-election.
* The Sopranos ( 1999 ) — In an episode entitled " College ," Tony Soprano and his daughter Meadow visit Colby, where Tony kills a former associate, and Bowdoin, where he reads an inscription paraphrasing Hawthorne's warning that " no man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
Dr. McCoy is left bewildered, especially since Tormolen's wounds were not that serious — Tormolen seems to have simply lost the will to live.
The staff of the planetarium are bewildered, and one of the workers — a woman named Satomi Kurahashi — is ordered to go follow Yumemi and bring her back.
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However, he has a habit of treating his patients in bizarre and often disturbing ways, such as prescribing heroin for a cold, making a man with a headache jump up and down in order to make his penis swing ( while mirroring the patient's bewildered jumping himself ) and making a patient leave and go in to the next room so he can examine him over the telephone.
Simply the accent of syllables can leave a bewildered jury believing they must put their guard up with a witness – or in some cases the cross-examiner if they are not careful.
Many arguments of Snapback Caps almost leave the originators of the " Original " 90's Snapback trend bewildered.
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Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.
Dawkins writes that he is not so much bewildered by their belief in a cosmic lawgiver, but by their beliefs in the minutiae of Christianity, such as the resurrection and forgiveness of sins, and that such scientists, in Britain and in the U. S., are the subject of bemused bafflement among their peers.
There is much confusion about identities, and the real Vincentio is set to be arrested when the real Lucentio appears with his newly betrothed Bianca, and reveals all to a bewildered Baptista and Vincentio.
Newcomers to recursion are often bewildered by its apparent circularity, until they learn to appreciate that a termination condition is key.
When Pike meets " Eve ", he is so bewildered he constantly trips and falls over himself.
America's silent majority is bewildered by irrational protest ..." Soon thereafter, journalist Theodore H. White analyzed the previous year's elections, writing " Never have America's leading cultural media, its university thinkers, its influence makers been more intrigued by experiment and change ; but in no election have the mute masses more completely separated themselves from such leadership and thinking.
The world is always bewildered by its saints.
His alternately confident and bewildered episodes bring his son to shame, while Sylvester himself is reduced to nervous breakdowns.
Slowly, it transpires that the mysterious stranger has arrived to try and win influence in the town for outside political forces ( which never manifest themselves ) through a series of Machiavellian intrigues, plots, slanders and insinuations ; in the process of doing so, he proceeds to unravel the Mourets ' lives to such an extent that the bewildered Francois is unwillingly and entirely unnecessarily committed to a mental institution, while poor Marthe really does go insane.
Dame Edna's mother is incarcerated in a " maximum-security twilight home for the bewildered ".
An older man named Alderson awakens and is bewildered to find himself in a cube-shaped room with a hatch in each wall, on the floor and in the ceiling.
She is bewildered when she receives her first letter from Hiroko, having never heard of her.
Wracked with guilt at his unwitting sins, Serge is plunged into a deeper religious fervour than ever before, and poor Albine is left bewildered at the loss of her soulmate.
Parts of Mer are continually in flux, like a river of spiked rocks that rises out of the ocean in the first episode and appears to defy physics ( none of the characters are bewildered by the spectacle aside from its danger ), but whether this is the Dark Water's doing or just the nature of the geologically hyperactive planet is unknown.
It is also suggested that the term derives from the Sanskrit words vatul ( mad, devoid of senses ) and vyakul ( wild, bewildered ) which Bauls are often considered.
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Corey was devastated and bewildered by Altom's death.
Although Buffy and her friends deal with death every week, often in very gruesome and fantastic ways, in this episode they are bewildered by the natural death of Joyce Summers, the divorced mother of Buffy and her sister Dawn and occasionally a mother figure to their friends.
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I thought my horse was about to die, and would have sprung from his back had a minute more elapsed ; but as that instant all the shrubs and trees began to move from their very roots, the ground rose and fell in successive furrows, like the ruffled water of a lake, and I became bewildered in my ideas, as I too plainly discovered, that all this awful commotion was the result of an earthquake.
In the spring of 1865 the Grants went to New York and Grant made an appearance at Cooper Union ; the New York Times thus described the reception for the war hero: "... the enhanced and bewildered multitude trembled with extraordinary delight.
Larger handicaps are certainly possible ; but with such a great difference in strength, Black may be simply bewildered, and not understand how many of White's moves relate to his own.
The band was bewildered by Sonic Youth's praise ; Barlow recalled, " We're like, ' What?
The remnants of Somerset's force were in a hopeless situation, hemmed in and unable to manoeuvre ; the Yorkist troops charged through the one opening at the east end of Linnel's Meadow and engaged the bewildered Lancastrian soldiers.
Zoot's claim to fame was playing the final off-key note to the end theme of the show ; he then looks into his saxophone with a bewildered expression, checks his music, gives a satisfied nod, looks around at the other musicians and gives the same nod.
Her songs were not virginal – on the contrary ; but the frequenters of the Moulin were not easily frightened ; they stared bewildered at this novel association of innocence with Xanrof's horrific double entente ; stared, stayed and broke into delighted applause.
Despite this success, the rise of new filmmakers like George Lucas took him off guard ; the success of Star Wars reportedly bewildered him at how a film with apparently no stars or love story could enrapture audiences so fervently.
Fitzwilliam was unrepentant, writing to Thomas Grenville on 3 April that the Duke of Portland " has been bewildered, and in his confusion has been led into irretrievable error ; but that error is of a nature never, I fear, to be got over: he has been induced to abandon his principles, and give up his friend, his firm, his steady his staunch supporter.
" What can a man have to say, who works all morning in describing hawks & owls ; & then rushes out, & walks in a bewildered manner up one street & down another, looking out for the word To Let '.
Ajamila became bewildered and attracted ; his mind becoming more and more attached to the prostitute.
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