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"Nonplus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... over there and see them." Accordingly, a day or two after this, he hired a carriage, and went off early in the morning to Frejus. In so small a place he expected to find the young ladies at once; but, to his surprise, no one knew them nor had heard of them. He was at a nonplus, and just about to return home and laugh at himself and the baroness for this wild-goose chase, when he fell in with a face he knew, one Mivart, a surgeon, a young man of some talent, who had made his acquaintance in Paris. Mivart accosted ...
— White Lies • Charles Reade
... of prey A novice might nonplus; Yet from the Crocodile you may Tell the Hyena, thus: 'Tis the Hyena if it smile; ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various |
Words linked to "Nonplus" : pose, dumbfound, discombobulate, amaze, fuddle, beat, elude, throw, flummox, bewilder, mystify, perplex, escape, stump, stupefy, fox, get, mix up, stick, bedevil, confuse |
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