nonplus
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He found cross-examinations mentally invigorating, soon learned that he could nonplus storming attorneys if he kept smiling no matter how galling their insinuations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Peter was puzzled, and scratched his ear like a man at a nonplus.
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
My uncle turned from one to the other, completely at a nonplus, Rosalie in the meantime clinging to his breast and imploring him passionately to save her!
From Kate Coventry An Autobiography by Whyte-Melville, G. J.
Each desperate plunge elicited from the sufferers oaths and expressions which only those who have seen sailors completely at a nonplus on shore can conceive.
From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George
“By Jingo, that’s a bad job,” cried the skipper, but he was not long at a nonplus.
From The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea by Austin, Henry
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