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These would have been perplexing utterances even to an unsympathetic man.

From Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

The affair would undoubtedly have been perplexing to a man of far more experience than he; but the doctor pictured to himself a thousand difficulties and dangers, which, except in his imagination, had no existence.

From Fanshawe by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

If its descriptions of character had been given in the language of the philosopher or academist, what was intelligible to one age would have been perplexing or meaningless to the next.

From John the Baptist by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)

They are the right answers to the questions which have been perplexing us—the correct solutions to the problems over which we have been puzzling our brains.

From The Farringdons by Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft