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Definition of Bewilders
1. bewilder [v] - See also: bewilder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bewilders
Literary usage of Bewilders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"which bewilders their hearers. At every sentence they look for applause or
flattery, taxing the patience of the wise. So too the pompous speak with an echo, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"In the one the barbaric world appears under an aspect which at first bewilders
and estranges; in the other, whilst retaining its richness and its savour, ..."
3. Among the Isles of Shoals by Celia Thaxter (1873)
"A sword-fish swimming leave's a wake a mile long on a calm day, and bewilders
the imagination into a belief in sea-serpents. There "sa legend that a torpedo ..."
4. The Sunny Side of the Street by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1905)
"Does Not Keep Opinions on Tap.—He and Chauncey Depew on New York City Politics.—Croker
bewilders a London Salesman.—His Greatest Pride. ..."
5. The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America by Fredrika Bremer (1853)
"Is it the glitter of the drawing-room and the chandelier which bewilders me ?
One observation I considered as well founded. Artifice and vanity exercise no ..."
6. The Unspeakable Scot: By T. W. H. Crosland by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1902)
"Harcourt bewilders him, Asquith bewilders him, Morley bewilders him, and latterly
there has come that crowning bewilderment of them all, Lord Rosebery. ..."
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