Vocabulary Word
Word: bemused
Definition: confused; lost in thought; preoccupied
Definition: confused; lost in thought; preoccupied
Sentences Containing 'bemused'
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.
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