Bepuzzlement

But the world would have puzzled over his bepuzzlement rather than over the little thing that to him loomed gigantic. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The three men looked their bepuzzlement at one another. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He had studied them intently, ranging from one to another and back again, and I could see that there was uncertainty in his mind, and bepuzzlement. ❋ Unknown (1907)

"One man is killing the other man," I said, aware of a distinct bepuzzlement of my own and of failure to explain. ❋ Unknown (1907)

"One man is killing the other man," I said, aware of a distinct bepuzzlement of my own and of a failure to explain. ❋ Unknown (1905)

She had been a vague, abstracted woman with an air of bepuzzlement and lostness. ❋ Mary Gladys Meredith Webb (1904)

What relation to the subordinate cause of the errors, i.e., the domestic difficulties of Antipholus the Native -- has the new source of difficulty and bepuzzlement -- the gold chain? ❋ Charlotte Endymion Porter (1900)

I must admit, I share Kady's confusion: I have to confess to having suddenly been struck by bout of bepuzzlement over who, exactly, it was who uncovered this "story" in the first place. ❋ Unknown (2008)