puzzled

Morgan watched the two figures for a time, puzzled.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.

An incoherent, puzzled sound came from the red mouth.

Matsuo puzzled and grew anxious over the complete passiveness, concluding that he was the butt of a devilish joke.

She describes, first, the imaginary reaction of a foreigner puzzled by this `` unseasonable exultation '' ; ;

-- In France he had puzzled the meaning of the great stone monuments men had thrown up to the sky, and always as he wandered, he felt a stranger to their exultation.

McFeeley looked puzzled.

Peasants puzzled Andrei.

The guards lowered their rifles and their rifles and peered at Watson with sullen, puzzled faces.

He seemed puzzled by my question.

Her first day at work she was puzzled by an entry in the doctor's notes on an emergency case.

The puzzled saleslady inquired, `` How large is your house, Madam ''??

Rather than being deceived, the eye is puzzled ; ;

After a while we were perhaps less surprised, but still puzzled, when a friendly discussion would suddenly jump the track into the most irrelevant and illogical comparisons.

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart were puzzled and concerned.

The men were at first puzzled, then angered by the aimless tacking.

He looked up at me, puzzled, and he swayed his head from side to side.

The will has greatly puzzled historians, who have read it as a bizarre gesture of extreme piety uncharacteristic of Alfonso's character, one that effectively undid his life's work.

Li ' l Abner has one odd design quirk that has puzzled readers for decades: the part in his hair always faces the viewer, no matter which direction Abner is facing.

In the chapter, Nicodemus is puzzled and asks Jesus what he means by saying that " Ye must be born again ".

This has sparked much debate amongst developers, analysts, computer scientists, programmers, and outsiders who continue to be puzzled at the subtle differences in the definitions of these occupations.

Its innovative structure somewhat puzzled critics.

A doctor may suspect dissociative fugue when people seem confused about their identity or are puzzled about their past or when confrontations challenge their new identity or absence of one.

The next day he returned, disappointed and puzzled, and asked, " You said messiah would come ' today ' but he didn't come!