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Prisidint: 'Most gracious an' bewilderin 'Majesty, Impror iv th' Sun, austere an 'patient Father iv th' Stars, it has come to our benign attintion that in wan iv ye'er populous domains our little prattlin 'childher who ar-re over forty years iv age ar-re not admitted to th' first reader classes in th 'public schools.

Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

He got wiser every day; his views of Society and the Public was luminous, bewilderin, awful; and his Ed got bigger and bigger as his Wisdom expanded it.

Going into Society 2007

He got wiser every day; his views of Society and the Public was luminous, bewilderin, awful; and his Ed got bigger and bigger as his Wisdom expanded it.

A House to Let 2007

He got wiser every day; his views of Society and the Public was luminous, bewilderin, awful; and his Ed got bigger and bigger as his Wisdom expanded it.

Going into Society 2007

"An 'it's mighty new an' bewilderin 'for the border," he replied with

The Last Trail Zane Grey 1905

What with them silences an 'volyoobilities, sobrieties an' days of drink, an 'all in bewilderin' alternations, he's shore got us goin 'four ways at once.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

And as we floated along by Jackson Park, and could git a plain view of the perfect buildin's -- the lagoons with fairy boats a-skimmin 'over the sparklin' surface -- in fact, in plain view of the hull vast, bewilderin 'seen of matchless splendor -- why, I declare I felt almost as if I wuz took back clear into the Arabian Nights Entertainments, and magic seens wuz bein' unfolded before my enraptured vision.

Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

I sot on the piazza at Bildad's lookin 'out on the seen that, bewilderin' as it wuz by daylight, wuz ten times more bewilderin'ly beautiful by night.

Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

And pretty soon the White City riz up like a city of bewilderin 'beauty and enchantment, with the sun a-lookin' down from a blue sky, and lightin 'up the tall, white walls, and gilded domes, and towers, and minarets.

Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

"It's kinder bewilderin 'goin' in them big shops, and lookin 'round them stuffed shelves."

Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation Bret Harte 1869