bemused

And so the sailors fled into the stern and crowded bemused about the right-minded helmsman, until suddenly the lion sprang upon the master and seized him; and when the sailors saw it they leapt out overboard one and all into the bright sea, escaping from a miserable fate, and were changed into dolphins.

One will pass all the hours of the night seated at the foot of some oak or rock, and there, without having closed his weeping eyes, the sun finds him in the morning bemused and bereft of sense; and another without relief or respite to his sighs, stretched on the burning sand in the full heat of the sultry summer noontide, makes his appeal to the compassionate heavens, and over one and the other, over these and all, the beautiful Marcela triumphs free and careless.

Even in his bemused intelligence, wonder began to awake.

For a companion I had found a book, not bemused with the cleverness of the day--a fine-weather book, simple and sincere like the talk of an unselfish friend.

anon their bemused wits awoke to the nature of the deed

A BEMUSED city council lor has told how he opened a tin of Heinz Beanz to find it contained just a solitary baked bean..

The singer 36,000 fans words: The biggest rock event in the region was David Bowie's huge show at Sunderland AFC's Roker Park, where the superstar singer greeted 36,000 bemused fans with the words: "Good evening, Newcastle."

Twitter user Amir Amadeus Hafizi could not resist recycling the theme song from '90s TV sitcom Friends by The Rembrandts to describe Khairy's bemused expression.

KARACHI -- A journalist allowing his creative poetic impulses to be expressed, penning down the imaginative thoughts that have consumed him all his life; that was the story shared of journalist, short story writer, and poet Peerzada Salman at the launch of his first poetry book Bemused at T2F on Friday

SINGER-SONGWRITER Sting said he is "both grateful and somewhat bemused" to have been awarded the prestigious Polar Music Prize.

BEMUSED shoppers watched a group of militant vegans protest in Tesco Metro, in Liverpool city centre, in a bid to stop people buying meat.

IN THE Mail Gary Rowett (pictured) said he was "bemused" by the second-half performance against a fully deserving Wolves outfit.