| 1. | Painfully he tried to puzzle out what had happened. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | Now you look puzzled and I will puzzle you further. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | It'll puzzle it to go through the ceiling, I expect. - from Through the Looking-Glass by Charles Dodgson, AKA Lewis Carroll |
| 4. | At length let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | Nay, to this very hour, I often puzzle myself with it. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | Horner to puzzle her, for the credit of his own school. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 7. | Why, your expression makes it a harder puzzle than before. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 8. | I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 9. | Collins," cried Elizabeth with some warmth, "you puzzle me exceedingly. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 10. | This speech at first puzzled Mrs. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 11. | I tell you, mon ami, it puzzles me. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 12. | This puzzled me very much at first. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 13. | Dean, somewhat puzzled at my speech. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 14. | Is there anything else that puzzles you. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 15. | "He would be greatly puzzled what to do. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 16. | This puzzled me a little, so I drew him on. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 17. | What she would not say was what puzzled him. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 18. | It puzzled me, for I saw no occasion for it. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |