nonplus

Example Sentences

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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

Here was a nonplus, not perhaps without its comical side.

From Chivalry by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green

“Why, the loon’s but a bairn,” said Mr Macdougall, at a nonplus for some objection to my promotion.

From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by Overend, William Heysham

In short, it might nonplus a Person of the nicest Taste, to distinguish or determine, whether the Neatness of their Cells within, or the beauteous Varieties without, most exhaust his Admiration.

From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel