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And since 'tis thou hast made me drain th' unmixed cup of love, * If me thou see with wine bemused heap not thy blame on me! And when she had written the missive, And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say. When it was the Three Hundred and Thirty-third Night,
The boy sat bemused, looking at the glass but not tasting it, while the Doctor emptied and refilled his own, at first with clouded brow, but gradually yielding to the sun, the heady, prickling beverage, and his own predisposition to be happy.
Still Andre-Louis continued to stand there, looking on as if bemused. He continued so until Le Chapelier touched him on the arm. Then at last he roused himself, sighed, and turned away to resume his garments, nor did he address or look again at his late opponent, but left the ground at once.
Whether the idiot actually touched the body or not I cannot say, but he must have realised in his poor, bemused brain that the thing was dead. He cried out with his horrible, inhuman cry, turned, and ran up the lane towards me. He fell on his face a few yards from me, scrambled wildly to his feet again and came on yelping and shrieking. He was wildly, horribly afraid.
She coloured, taken aback, but after half a second she replied with her ready sureness: "In my father's drawing-room among city people and in my own among literary people." "H'm!" said I. "Lioshas don't grow on every occasional chair." "You're as bemused as Barbara." "I haven't studied what you call the type," I replied. "But I've studied an individual, which you haven't."
The senses were bemused by the continual succession, of heads set close together like a mosaic, and covering the whole surface of the great street, and by the roar which went up, cheering everything which made its appearance; whether it were the struggling activity of the crowd moving in the center of the street, the sudden fall of foolhardy boys who had climbed into trees or up lampposts, or the short and sharp fights which went on between spectators for the best places, nothing escaped recognition.
He passed the post-office, and turned back to it again. Went on, and again turned back. This time he entered with his mind all bemused. "Have you any nice stamps?" he asked. Mabel looked very enraged as she entered the house. "Anything the matter?" he enquired. "Yes. You might not think so. As I do, probably you wouldn't.
A multicolored, multitudinous, swarming tide of dinies filled the highway from gutter to gutter. From the two-inch dwarfs to the purple-striped variety which grew to eight inches and sometimes fought cats, the dinies were in motion. They ran in the wake of the chief justice, enthralled and entranced by the smell of hot sheet iron. They were fascinated. They were bemused.
At first Mistress Randall thought she was praying, but by and by came to the conviction that most of the time, "the wench was bemused."
The Englishmen could talk freely in the presence of cultured Indians who stood for Jaipur and Hyderabad, since both States were loyal to the core. Dyán, like Lance, spoke little and pondered much on the talk of these men, whose straight speech and thoughts were refreshing as their own sea breezes after the fumes of rhetoric, the fog of false values that had bemused his brain these three years.
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