| Dylan had slipped a gear in staring perplexedly at the blond woman, lost a moment in dreaming, and in that moment Robert Woolfolk had shunted away, out of the blithe park that seemed intended to contain anything but him. |
| The English customer paid for what he had had, perplexedly counted his change, and asked, as a stranger, to be directed towards the National Palace. |
| I stared perplexedly for a full minute before I rediscovered my wits and jumped in surprise. |
| Both of them stopped their quarrel suddenly and looked at me perplexedly. |
| She looked perplexedly at the raw meat her waiter had set in front of her. |
| I gazed down perplexedly at the top of her glossy, jet-black head. |
