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His book raises questions of conscience which, though they can never be satisfactorily settled, will perplex society and individuals as long as men are bound in loyalty to states that may commit crimes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Impose upon him a number of factitious considerations of duty, and you will perplex his moral sense, and make him tired of a self-government which has no certainty and no satisfaction in it.

From Household Education by Martineau, Harriet

And then the inquest will be held—and a medical man will perplex a plain case with useless show of knowledge, and a jury will return a verdict of “Death from natural causes.”

From The Night Side of London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

And it will perplex the reader to say what a "square penny" is.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Dudeney, Henry Ernest

Osric: Though I may not take up thy gauntlet, Should we meet where the steel strikes fire, 'Twixt thy casque and thy charger's frontlet The choice will perplex thy squire.

From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop