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As he spoke one immense condor drove full at him, its evil head outstretched as if it meant to tear him with its hooked beak. The boy struck at it with one arm while he controlled the aeroplane with the other and the monstrous bird seemed nonplussed for a moment.
For the nonce she was nonplussed. She didn't know what to make of it. When she did you should have heard the language she used. It is not for me to tell it in a respectable crowd, for I only use it to Estelle, that's my maid, when she pulls my hair, but it was certainly not fit for publication in a family newspaper. "She's continually getting into trouble. If it ain't one thing it's another.
Presently there were fluctuations in favour of Carnac, and the six hundred by which Barouche led were steadily swallowed up; he saw that among the places which gave Carnac a majority were the Island and the Mill. He was also nonplussed by Carnac's coolness. For a man with an artist's temperament, he was well controlled.
But, when he found that the statement was a preliminary to a different and more alarming movement, and especially when he saw placed in the sheriff's hands a warrant for delivering up his client to the British, to be tried for a former felony, from the punishment of which, he feared, from what he had just heard, there would be no escape, he was sadly nonplussed, and knew not which way to turn himself.
For a moment Howard, always slow of speech and action, was too nonplussed to know what to do, deeply sorry as he felt for his wife. Then he leaned over and patted her hand the hand that was scarcely less rough and scarred than his own with his big calloused one. "You must stop grieving over Edith," he said gently, "and blaming yourself for what's happened.
"There's a strong chance that Injuns will drift by and take all our supplies," Bagsby pointed out. "Chances are slim in only a day or so; you must admit that," argued Johnny. "Let's risk it. We can scratch along if they do take our stuff." "And the gold?" That nonplussed us for a moment. "Why not bury it?" I suggested. Bagsby and Pine snorted. "Any Injun would find it in a minute," said Pine.
"Oh, how lovely! I never thought I should have the good fortune of passing the night in a house that is really haunted. What are folks supposed to see? I don't know much about ghosts out of books." This nonplussed him. He was entirely out of his element.
"You don't know what's in store for you," said Dunce, nonplussed by my manner. "As I said before, I'll risk it." "Very well. Where is the rope, boys?" "Here you are," answered Pultzer. "Plenty of it." As he spoke he produced a stout clothes line, five or six yards in length. "We'll bind his hands a little tighter first," instructed Duncan, "and then his legs.
Important, complete though these might be, other words, other thoughts no less weighty and important must follow in the future. At this conclusion, evolved unexpectedly from his thoughts concerning good and evil, Yourii seemed utterly nonplussed.
The second Jones was a man of about thirty, a nice, gentlemanly fellow, in a fine offce. I have usually been an off-hand man in business, accustomed to quick decisions and very little beating about the bush. But I confess I was rather nonplussed with the second Jones. How the devil was I to begin?
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