If there has been a common course in the cases pending before Judge Daniels, it is this: the plaintiffs and their lawyers wait one, two, or three years for a ruling, growing increasingly restless and perplexed.

"But you are not one of us," Edmund said, growing more and more perplexed.

Broghuilio grew more perplexed and more flustered as he listened.

Dull gentlemen in both Houses grew perplexed, and avoided him when they could.

NEQ THE SWORD The third time he came to a lodge in a hostel and found it gutted and broken, Neq grew perplexed and angry.

But Ms. Harris grew perplexed.

The senators who had been cheering him grew silent and perplexed, and one or two who were sitting near him made some excuse and walked across to the other side of the House.

For the Kennedy Space Center set, "Roving Mars" is sure to prove a rocket-science riot, but others may grow perplexed and dismayed once the journey takes off into space.

Ms. Von Furstenberg is a well-known champion of efforts to preserve the meatpacking district and the High Line and, when neighbors heard that Coalco might want to build condos on the designer's properties, they grew perplexed.

Confused, Pony went to the archer, lying facedown, and she grew even more perplexed, for the man showed no wound on his back.