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Nobody has puzzled longer over the roots of his creativity than Dylan himself and this riveting, poetic memoir is the result.
You might well be puzzled by this bizarre attempt to create a difference where none exists.
Then she stares at the stranger, her puzzled expression swiftly turning into shock.
His many readers, including me, had become increasingly puzzled and concerned by his uncharacteristic silence.
They were puzzled at the undemonstrativeness of the conquered people and thought them strangely sullen.
Crowley, for his part, was puzzled by the referee's decision to penalise him.
Rachael spoke softly, her voice chiming musically, and Sarah heard a deeper meaning in her words and was puzzled.
Indeed, many of the colonial terms which puzzled the new chums were not colonial-grown, but borrowings from various British dialects.
She then returned alone into the pub, necked her drink, stared at everyone in threatening manner and left to puzzled looks all round.
Jenia's look of bitterness slowly melts away to be replaced by a somewhat puzzled look.
For 70 years, physicists have puzzled over sonoluminescence, a process where sound waves create thousands of hot, luminous bubbles in water.
The Helots, and the Spartans ' severe treatment of them, at first puzzled and later disturbed the more sensitive Greek observers.
A few sentences into his answer and he was looking rather puzzled despite himself, as I was now vibrating like a blancmange on a spin dryer.
My cable TV was working fine, so I was puzzled as to why the cable modem for my internet would be non-functioning.
Several Novembers ago, off the coast of Greenland, the captain of a fishing vessel was puzzled by one of the fish caught in the boat's gill nets.
Similarly, a young novice entered St. Martin's cell and was puzzled not to find him there.
So, people are on edge and are a little puzzled as to exactly what comes next and what's happening at the moment.
But I am puzzled by the apparent conviction that the golden rice project is somehow compromised by the industry offensive.
My acquaintance was a little puzzled, expecting me to stick to the original subject.
I puzzled over how best to build a box for her collection, and the idea finally came to me around 3 a.m. one night.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Thirty or forty years ago I read all that I could find about caprification, and was utterly puzzled.
He was puzzled, for people, while they shunned him, did not appear uncivil.
One of them he found in a dark crevice had a hexagonal shape that puzzled him.
He recognized the signs of high-pressure, and the light in Wrayson's eyes puzzled him.
Whalemen have always been puzzled as to the place of breeding for the right whale.
How some red mullet, enclosed in paper, puzzled poor Titmouse, is best known to himself.
And if he was disappointed with Mr. Snyder, and puzzled by him, too, he was also disappointed with himself.
His nature was not of a kind given to internal conflict, and he had never before been long undecided and puzzled.
The bonesetter was puzzled by this sudden change in the count's intentions.
Again, perhaps, they were as much puzzled by her incognito as she was by theirs.
I was vexed and puzzled, and distressed, too, after sending John away as I had done.
The question with which Philotas puzzled the self-conceited physician was this.
That double vision, the acceptance of a general good together with the possibility of extreme ill to the individual, puzzled him.
Walt Whitman's great biologic, physiologic roaring they would frown over, puzzled.
Neither the hawk nor the marten were present, and the chickaree was puzzled because he could see nothing else.
Farnsworth seemed impressed in about the same way as the coroner, Kirchner, but he was still puzzled.
Probably they have puzzled, as we are still doing, over the Kufic or Arabic inscriptions on the last.
This movement puzzled the newcomer until he suddenly realized that it was merely to redistribute the rouge on them.
What puzzled Miss Dwight was the difficulty of reconciling him with himself.
Gilder himself was puzzled over the situation, which was by no means clear to him.
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