stumped

Tom Sawyer was stumped; he see Jim had got him where he couldn't budge.

And off he stumped, leaving Cyrus staring after him, open-mouthed.

Shadrach was stumped, and he went to church that Sunday morning.

He had the keys of all the cabins, and stumped in after them.

But meanwhile Warboise had stumped off and told Ibbetson's wife.

And with that he turned his back and stumped up the steps after the curate.

It was now Tom's turn to be stumped, but he wouldn't let it be known.

He stumped back and forth in the narrow confines of the porch.

"We're not stumped, with five bear carcasses," hinted Private Johnson.

For a moment Barrow was stumped, then realized that it must be a greeting.