bewildering

She had no sense of chill resolute repulsion, of reticent self-justification such as she had known under Lydgate's most stormy displeasure: all her sensibility was turned into a bewildering novelty of pain; she felt a new terrified recoil under a lash never experienced before.

The swiftness of it was bewildering. He made a futile rush at White Fang, clipping the empty air with an outraged snap.

It was so emphatically a fallen sport--a something, once innocent, delivered over to all devilry--a healthy pastime changed into a means of angering the blood, bewildering the senses, and steeling the heart.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire.

The lonely little island was invaded from all quarters at once, and after four weeks of silence it was bewildering to hear human speech.

Countrymen, butchers, drovers, hawkers, boys, thieves, idlers, and vagabonds of every low grade, were mingled together in a mass; the whistling of drovers, the barking dogs, the bellowing and plunging of the oxen, the bleating of sheep, the grunting and squeaking of pigs, the cries of hawkers, the shouts, oaths, and quarrelling on all sides; the ringing of bells and roar of voices, that issued from every public-house; the crowding, pushing, driving, beating, whooping and yelling; the hideous and discordant dim that resounded from every corner of the market; and the unwashed, unshaven, squalid, and dirty figues constantly running to and fro, and bursting in and out of the throng; rendered it a stunning and bewildering scene, which quite confounded the senses.

This amused the company very much, but they were even more pleased when Polychrome, whose hunger had been easily satisfied, rose from the table and performed her graceful and bewildering Rainbow Dance for them.

Even the bustle and confusion at the railway terminus, so wearisome and bewildering at other times, roused me and did me good.

And I honestly said 'This [Daybreak] is absolutely gonna work', and Christine said, 'That's worrying cos you are never confident about anything'." Referring to his career ups and downs, Adrian added: "I found the whole rise and rise bewildering, and the decline bewildering, but not in a good way."

Poe earlier tagged the controversy as 'downright bewildering' given a 'record-breaking surplus' in the supply of rice in the country.

N.IRELAND 0 SWITZERLAND 1 NORTHERN Ireland boss Michael O'Neill called the decision to award Switzerland a match-deciding penalty in the first leg of their World Cup play-off "bewildering".

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