"Nonplussed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her head which suggested to Desmond a jerk on the curb-chain. In moving off together they passed close to Garth. But Quita, who was abstractedly opening and closing her fan, did not seem aware of his presence; and he stood looking after them—nonplussed and inwardly blaspheming. He did not hold the key to this new ...
— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver
... was nonplussed by this extraordinary assertion, the grounds for which were not borne out by such medical skill as he possessed; but chancing to look across the table at Iris Wayne he found her dimpling deliciously ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... called, nonplussed at the German-looking figure rushing towards him. I threw his old phrase at him: "Fly high and good luck, old ...
— The Sequel - What the Great War will mean to Australia • George A. Taylor
... on earth has the concertina got to do with it?" Saxham was frankly puzzled, and Beauvayse, with all his professional knowledge of "Tommy," was for once nonplussed. ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... completely nonplussed by the strange talk which he was hearing for the first time. The complexity of Petersburg, as a rule, had a stimulating effect on him, rousing him out of his Moscow stagnation. But he liked these complications, and understood them only in the circles he knew and was at home ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
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