puzzling

“Miss Mortimer always encouraged the girls to go for walks when we were puzzling over a difficult assignment,” Penelope thought.

“It is puzzling, yes,” Penelope murmured, keeping close watch on the boys, whose eyes were again fixed on the bouncing bird.

Wittgenstein demanded that whenever we find ourselves puzzling over the meaning of such terms, we should ask, “is the word ever actually used in this way in the language in which it is at home?”

Audits and tax returns posted on the museum website confirm the puzzling discrepancy.

Nearby are additional puzzling landscapes in which other Lilliputian figures, at times the scale of insects, feel overwhelmed by outsize vegetation.